The increasing spread of emotional AI, brings with it new concerns about privacy, personal data rights and, well, freedom of expression (although, in a sense, perhaps, not thought about much in the past). The data that the emotion recognition captures could be considered to be biometric data, just like a scan of your fingerprint. However, there is little legislation globally that specifically addresses the capture, usage rights and privacy considerations of biometric data. Until GDPR.
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by Carrington Malin
Carrington Malin is a UAE-based marketing and communications professional, consultant, entrepreneur and writer with many years experience of building brands, driving growth and leading high-performance teams. He has worked with a wide range of high-growth, technology and tech-driven ventures across ecommerce, consumer products, digital services, B2B, media, software, hardware and other sectors. These days he focuses mainly on emerging technology ventures related to artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR) / virtual reality (VR), blockchain, drones, Internet of Things (IoT), robotics and smart cities.