Speculative Design. 8 what if scenarios, characterised by further developments of facial recognition machines.

1. WHAT IF SCENARIOSFACIAL RECOGNITION AND SURVEILLANCE
ADRIANO MESCIA

2. countermeasures
people start to change completely
their biometrics, developments
in biometrics mutation

3. NEW KIND
OF HUMAN
RELATIONSHIPS
what if people will recognise
themselves only if machines will do it?

4. UNDERSTANDING
WHAT PEOPLE
THINK
SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS BASED
ON BEHAVIOUR METRICS.
knowing exactly the person
and his behaviour may be
able to understand how
the person feels and
what it’s thinking

5. penalty
OPTIMISATION
RULES EVERYWHERE AND
FINES ALWAYS IMMEDIATELY
DELIVERED

6. AUTONOMOUS
BOUNCERS
machine pending from
the ceiling which would
identify an aggressive or
incorrect behaviour

7. OWNERSHIP OF DATA

8. BIG BROTHER
FROM SPYING TO EXPLICIT
MASS SURVEILLANCE By GOVERNMENTS

9. HACKER
TERRORISM
DATA as most dangerous
weapon to literally
destroy people

10. DATA MULTINATIONALS
DATA will replace oil and gas
as international goods
and trade commodity

11. BANKS OF DATA
PEOPLE will own THEIR DATa and
will deposit them in banks as
they do with current money

12. RESUMING:
DRASTIC IDEAS
Countermeasures - Biometrics Labs
Relationships - New way to recognise people
Understanding people feelings and thoughts
TECHNOLOGIES
Penalty optimisation
Autonomous bouncers
OWNERSHIP OF DATA
Government - Big Brother
Hackers - Cyber Terrorism
Multinationals - New trade
People - Banks of Data