Your Face Is Now Permanent Data: How Biometric Surveillance Became Inescapable

You can change your password. You can get a new credit card number. You can move to a new city. You cannot change your face. When facial recognition flags you incorrectly, there is no correction mechanism. When your biometric data is breached, the damage is permanent. When a company or a government builds a dossier on your face, that record does not expire, cannot be revoked, and follows you across every camera, every border, every store entrance for the rest of your life. Welcome to the age of biometric surveillance — a technology that has been deployed faster than any legal or ethical framework designed to govern it, on populations that never consented to it, with error rates that fall hardest on the people who were already most vulnerable to state and corporate power. Clearview AI: The Company That Scraped the World's Faces In 2020, an investigation by the New York Times revealed that a then-obscure startup called Clearview AI had assembled the most comprehensive facial recognition