Face Recognition

A technology that uses computer vision and machine learning to identify or verify a person by analysing their facial features from images or video. In accessibility contexts, face recognition has significant potential as an assistive tool for blind and deafblind people, enabling them to identify who is nearby in social situations. However, face recognition also raises substantial privacy, ethical, and regulatory concerns — particularly around data protection, consent, mass surveillance, and algorithmic bias that can disproportionately affect people with disabilities and other marginalised groups. The tension between its assistive potential and surveillance risks makes it a highly contested area in accessible computing.