“Facial recognition technology takes privacy and personal identification issues to a whole new level. With enough cameras around and enough data, you can identify almost anyone – everyone – anywhere, anytime. It’s as good as fingerprints but requires no contact. Just a watchful, electronic eye. ID-ing you, wherever you go. Facebook and Google and US law enforcement have lots at work already. The Obama administration has been trying to hammer out privacy restraints. Last week, the privacy advocates walked out.”

Andrea Peterson, technology policy reporter at the Washington Post. (@kansasalps)

Alvaro Bedoya, executive director of the Center on Privacy and Technology at the Georgetown University School of Law, where he is also an adjunct professor. (@alvarombedoya)

Carl Szabo, Policy Counsel at the e-commerce trade association NetChoice. Adjunct professor of privacy law at the George Mason School of Law. (@carlszabo)