Taylor Swift‘s efforts to protect herself from crazed stalkers may have seen her “spy” on unknowing fans when they attend her sold-out live shows.

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Swift’s fans have learned that she has been secretly surveilling them using a high-tech system which scans and saves their faces onto a database. Why? To detect stalkers who may pose a threat to her.

Jay Stanley of the ACLU explained…

Stalkers are a generally scary phenomenon and everyone understands why someone like Taylor  would want to be protected against them. But this does have larger implications. It is not about this one deployment, it is about where this is technology is headed.Even if they do everything right at the Taylor Swift concert, as we see this technology spread there are going to be a lot of problems along these lines.

Swift’s decision to keep a close eye on concert attendees is fuelled by the insanity she has been forced to deal with as a result of boundary pushing fans.

Insanity, which saw one enter her apartment building, another who was arrested outside of her home and another threaten to kill her.

She is yet to respond to the criticism she is facing from some supporters who questioned how their technology she employed to protect herself will be used in the future.

I’m not a ⁦@taylorswift13⁩ fan, so I’m unaffected, but this feels like a crappy move. I understand the intent, but I’m not sold this is the best way…
Taylor Swift used airport-style facial recognition on concertgoers https://t.co/0Ez3wYHSN2

— OpinesJM (@OpinesJM) December 14, 2018

I'm an embarrassingly big Taylor Swift fan but using facial recognition technology on people without their knowledge and/or consent (even if it is for their own safety) is wrong.

— Vaibhavi (@Vaibhavi_A) December 14, 2018

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