Imagine walking into your local superstore looking for a pick-me-up after having recently been dumped by your significant other. Upon arriving at the ice cream aisle you pull out your phone and see that the superstore has just sent you a coupon for ice cream. Pretty cool, right? Such an event may be possible in the not-too-distant future as emotion recognition technology is developed; however, while this technology may provide for “cool” events like sending coupons to people feeling sad, it could also be abused. Imagine a world where, whether you like it or not, your emotions are analyzed and recorded wherever you go. I feel that this alone is a violation of privacy and should be enough to significantly constrain further development of this technology. If the development of this technology isn’t constrained, consider other applications—what if you’d walked into the store thinking about stealing something but thought it through and decided not to; however, as you were leaving the store you were arrested because according to your emotions you were going to steal something? I fear that if such technology isn’t limited (or perhaps stopped entirely) its negative effects will outweigh the positive effects.
Read the article that inspired this post here.
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