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Summary for Article 2 (Met’s police facial recognition technology)
The Metropolitan Police’s facial recognition technology was analysed in detail and it was concluded that it has an 81% error rate, this fact was disclosed based on researches that has been made. This high rate of inaccuracies led to significant concerns. Critics reports concluded that this kind of technology is not able to recognise a significant number of individuals, which lowers the quality of the technology. The above mentioned facts cause constant ongoing discussions about the ethical issues that the facial recognition electronics may have.
Facial recognition used to take payments from schoolchildren
The article from sky news provides information about the integration of facial recognition electronics in schools to process payments from juniors. Some of the schools in the United Kingdom are acquiring this technology payment systems to allow children to pay for their meals directly by scanning their faces. The innovation is a result from taken protections from COVID-19 to avoid any contact with the human body. Exponents support this idea as they think the same will result in effectiveness and security, however there are a lot of concerns regarding the privacy and the moral consequences of using this kind of technology. Ultimately, the article outlines the ongoing dispute between modernisation and the privacy rights in the educational systems.
My opinion:
Nowadays, living in such technology-oriented world, the idea to integrate modern payment system in the schools will be an advantage. The parent’s mind will be in peace as they don’t need to assure that their children will not forget the passwords to their cards or the fact that their cards won’t be stolen or lost. Moreover, this process seemed to be happening very quickly, which is very important for such a busy environment as schools. Everything have advantages and disadvantages, since this kind of electronics collets a biometric data, some of the people might be worried about. Even the fact that we don’t know how our data is collected and what is it used for, at some point this will be implemented in our routine, and we will need to adapt to the change. Nevertheless, since the world is changing and developing rapidly, I don’t consider collecting of biometric data as a something that I need to be concerned for, as in a few years more this will be unavoidable and part of our daily live situation. I believe that the protection system will continue developing more and more and issues such as a stolen data will be very rare situation.
The environmental atmosphere – Malta.
Not too long ago I found myself wondering where in the world I could move, one of my top choices was Malta. I was thinking this is not just about the location or about the climate but it’s also about the quality of life and the cost of living I want to have. These factors, mattered to me a lot, but not only, I have also took into consideration the environmental condition of the country. By making some researches about the environmental situation in Malta and comparing it to another countries over the world, like America, where the people breath the polluted and unhealthy air every day I realised that I’m taking the proper decision to move in Malta. The island currently has pretty good environmental atmosphere.
When it comes to the subject – slow movement in Malta, there are a few things that can be changed for the sake of improvement, for example – avoiding any pollution, I think the increasing of the bike lanes would strongly contribute for that.
All the people living in Malta are aware of the small amount of bike lanes that the island has. The consequence of the small amount of the bike lanes in Malta is using of vehicles that produce emission. We are all familiar how much gasoline is burned into the atmosphere and how this fact brings to enormous quantity of carbon emission that stimulate the pollution. Increasing the bike lanes will definitely allow people to start riding their bikes more often than their other vehicles like cars, motorcycles, practically all of the vehicles that produce emission and carbon dioxide.
Given the fact how unique is the Mediterranean climate in Malta and how long is the sunshine per year, this will allow the bicycling to be effective as possible. In other words the increasing of the bike lanes will allow the people to get much more advantages of the wonderful Maltese climate. Stepping off the gas and go to the bike pedals can contribute not only for all of the above usefulness, it can also certainly reduce people’s expenses on fuel and to get good their health.