May 22, 2020
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What you should know about thermal imaging
The public is being misled about pandemic technology. In an op-ed for OneZero, Evan Selinger, a professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Brenda Leong, senior counsel and director of A.I. and ethics at the Future of Privacy Forum write that technology like thermal imaging is “little more than security theater.”
As the duo argues, thermal cameras have many fatal limitations when used to screen for the coronavirus:
