Facial recognition systems have become ubiquitous in our every lives. When the iPhone X was first unveiled in 2017, Apple boasted that their new state-of-the-art face ID system was able to instantaneously recognize and authenticate users with just a single glance. Driving this was the Apple A11 Bionic chip, which includes dedicated neural network hardware, allowing the iPhone to perform blazingly fast facial recognition and machine learning operations. Today, almost all smartphones have a facial recognition security system.

In 2016, Amazon started its first supermarket with advanced facial recognition capabilities, known as Amazon Go. Unlike traditional supermarkets, Amazon Go uses facial recognition to know when you first arrive at the supermarket and when you removed an item from the shelf. When you've finished shopping, you can simply walk out...