Sofge clarifies the privacy behind facial recognition, stating, "Facial recognition, on the other hand, never identifies the subject–at best, it suggests prospects for further investigation" (par. 12). This is extremely important because people often worry about having their privacy overran. The quote above briefly explains that facial recognition will not identify the subject; it will give suggestions and off of the suggestions given the police officers will be able to narrow down the investigation to a few people instead of having to deal with a handful of people. This affects the entire community because people often worry about having their picture taken and then being falsely accused, or that the picture being taken may end up on the Internet somewhere; in this case, that will not happen. Facial recognition is only used to make security footage more readable when necessary. Instead of police officers having to go into an investigation blindly, they will be able to use facial recognition to give them an idea of where to begin investigating. As long as one has a clean record he or she will have nothing to worry about when facial recognition comes into play. In his article, Sofge goes into a deeper explanation as to when facial recognition needs in order to be effective saying, "Social media has precisely what facial recognition needs: billions of high-quality, camera-facing head shots, many of them tied directly to identities" (par. 24). This statement is important because it discusses the idea of tying social media into facial recognition. If social media becomes a factor of facial recognition, then the billions of people who use social media will have all of their information reviewed by the government. Because social media has access to hundreds of amazing quality pictures with identities tied straight to them, finding the right subject would be a job done in ones sleep.
