Facial Recognition Technology

Topic- Facial Recognition Technology

Learning Outcomes

LO1 Analyse the ethical mechanisms and orientations employed within corporate and business decision making processes.

LO2 Identify and evaluate the importance of ethical, sustainability and social impact focused issues confronting contemporary organisations.

LO3 Generate solutions to broadly defined and complex ethical problems in the corporate and business environment base.

LO4 Communicate researched solutions to organisational challenges.

LO5 Develop critical thinking skills by evaluation of the academic contributions in the field.

TASK 1

Facial Recognition Technology is being used to catch the criminals and the individuals who are missing. This research is underway to apply the technology to tailor adverting messages to individuals and the validate the purchases. This is being called “Arsenic” in the water of democracy by the groups of human rights. Because of threat of freedom of individual.

The Government’s Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group (BFEG) generate a report on recent field trials of the technology by two police forces which state that there were issues surrounding the accuracy of the technology and possible bias of output from the system as well as biased decision making based on this output.

The information presented above state that there is a fierce ethical and legal debate surrounding the benefits, threats and use of the technology.

Assessment Task

Write a report of 2000 words on ethical challenges which arises with the use of facial recognition Technology in UK. The report need to draw conclusions based on the principles of Utilitarianism, Deontology and Rawls theory of Justice.

Structure of Report