Pushing back against the datafication of our bodies

A residential care centre in Twello has started a pilot with facial recognition to prevent people with dementia, who are not allowed to leave the care centre, from doing so. People's faces are scanned at the front door. If you are on the list, the door remains closed. At radio station BNR, the operational director of the ICT service provider in question indicates that every elderly person who unintentionally leaves is one too many. Physical inte…