# Why a search engine that scans your face is dangerous : NPR

<https://www.npr.org/2023/10/11/1204822946/facial-recognition-search-engine-ai-pim-eyes-google>

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## What Jamie wrote

It seems inevitable with the amount of computing power, storage, and metadata that we have there will be services that allow you to point your phone at any random person on the street and know who they are. Extending that to automated surveillance freaks me out. This should be one of the things that drives privacy legislation in the US.

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