How do these three documents describe a world of facial recognition?

        The documents studied today are about facial recognition.  The documents that we are going to study come from press articles.  The first is from the GUARDIAN, the second from SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST and the last from the WASHINGTON POST.  There is an image, document C, on which we can observe people walking in the street and which have frames indicating their year of birth.  Document A is a press article dated Monday, July 29, 2019 written by Ian Sample, document B is also a press article but dated February 8, 2018 and was written by Meng Jing.  We have no precise information on the date and author of document C.

How do these three documents describe a world of facial recognition?

First, we will study the advantages and drawbacks of new technologies and then we will see the kind of society that the 3 documents describe.

         The first document describes what facial recognition is in the world, the text says that the uses that countries like China and Russia make of it is an abusive use because these countries use it to monitor the smallest actions and gestures  of their inhabitants.

 The second document deals with the fact that facial recognition is a good thing to recognize crime suspects and shows the "good sides" of facial recognition.

 The last document can be scary because it be aware  and realize that anyone can be recognized by a computer and that people we don't know have personal information about us.

         The 3 documents are connected by the fact that they convey the idea that we live in a society of technologies that go beyond what we can imagine.  You could almost say that some countries live in dystopia, in a world in which our face, our facial expressions and our feelings influence the advertisements we see; people can determine our level of concentration on a subject as in document B which deals with cameras that observe students to see if they are paying attention in class.

        The 3 documents are related to dystopia because they talk about the world in which we live, which is a world in which certain countries monitor and scrutinizing their citizens.  Even if in some cases, such as the fact that the advertisement on a bulletin board changes according to our feelings, it is not really dangerous, it remains surveillance, on the other hand in the case of pupils who are scrutinized by cameras to knowing if they are concentrated or distracted is abusive monitoring because even a serious student can have a moment of disconcentration.