Can facial recognition be justified for espionage in war?

With major global military conflicts asserting themselves into the story of the twenty-first century, a parallel debate is being waged in academic, ethical and political circles about the appropriate uses for facial recognition technology (FRT) and other biometric systems in warfare.

In August – eighteen months after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine – Cambridge University Press published an article by Juan Espindola, a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, entitled “Facial Recognition in War Contexts: Mass …

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