digital dangers
THE right to remain anonymous in the digital age is becoming more onerous as tech firms beef up their ability to mine personal data from the internet.
Experts say while facial recognition and other technology become increasingly unavoidable, it is often the selfie culture and need to share personal information online which threaten our privacy, making us easy targets.
Associate professor of IT at Durban University of Technology Brett van Niekerk said all technology, including facial recognition, had limitations and how you used it could be the problem.
“Sometimes human rights and ethical problems come up with facial recognition if you use it for excessive
