Lab interview for Globe and Mail (NuraLogix, public surveillance tools and the Chinese government)

Andrew McStay was interviewed by Canada’s Globe and Mail exploring sale of biometric surveillance tools. He said:

“You cannot gauge whether a person is happy or sad by looking at their face – you cannot infer what a person is really feeling, or which emotion they are going through, it just does not work.”

For Prof. McStay, the use of emotional recognition in China raises deep ethical and privacy concerns.

“For the Canadian company to be [licensing] this in security contexts in China – that’s profoundly wrong,” Prof. McStay said, adding that the issue raises questions over how NuraLogix’s research came to be funded.

“It’s an interesting question for the Canadian government; maybe it needs to be discussed under the same banner as arms sales and dealership.”

Full article here