# Hazard: Risk To Privacy

```{image} ../../images/hazards/privacy.png
:alt: A red diamond shaped outline (like a warning sign) with a picture of a surveillance camera in the middle.
:width: 250px
```

## Description

This technology may risk the privacy of individuals whose data is processed by it. 


## Examples

__Example 1:__ Facial recognition technologies are a [widely recognised risk to privacy](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03187-3). 

__Example 2:__ Apps designed to monitor children's digital activity risk children's privacy, and can be repurposed maliciously as stalkerware.

## Safety Precautions

- Ensure there is explicit and well-informed consent from any participants. 
- Carefully consider the digital and cyber security of data and future inferences.