Medical Lab Mirror technology could be abused and used against us soon.

Here is another very interesting technology being developed by a student at the prestigious MIT.

This particular invention uses a two way mirror and a webcam to read your heart rate.

The system uses an open-source face-tracking program and will study someone’s face, measuring the slight variations in brightness produced by the flow of blood through blood vessels in the face. This is truly quite incredible at its basic concept.

It can also be used as a lie detector in the near future and with Face Tracking technology combined can you think of the implication this will be used for beside a good old medical cause.

I can see this being placed in Airports, police stations, even malls or anywhere where large volumes of human traffic is recorded daily.

This can obviously be abused and I hate to think how we are be watched under the differing guises. Check it out guys. Another tech that will invariably have the "ANTI terror" stamp applied one day.

Here's a scary development for webcams, a MIT grad student has figured out how to determine if your heart is healthy just by looking at you via a webcam. The system uses an open-source face-tracking program and will study someone's face, measuring the slight variations in brightness produced by the flow of blood through blood vessels in the face. So once the developer was able to determine how to account for variations in lighting and image quality, he was easily able to measure a pulse, and it worked well enough that it matched up with the results of FDA-approved devices. The hardware used is simple and cheap enough that it could be installed almost anywhere from a mirror in your home, or even using your own cell phone camera. The system could be improved in the future to even double up as a lie detector

Originally posted by darkdays4u
It can also be used as a lie detector in the near future and with Face Tracking technology combined can you think of the implication this will be used for beside a good old medical cause.

Heart beat tracking isn't a really good indicator for a "lie detector". Not to mention that it's pretty easy to monitor your heartbeat from a distance anyway, this is just another way to do it.

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I have a feeling that the face tracking system can be linked to databases straight from, sat, a doctors office.

Now, all doctors visits are supposed to be confidential. Are they not?

Imagine going to the doctor, standing in front of this tech when its rolled out, and the computer tracking your face to read your blood pressure. Now the computer has perfect image of your face. One press of a button and your face is uploaded to a Gov database and now your name, address and face print are illegally stored on a database for use.

This could be used for this very reason. The Gov is always figuring out how to log everyone on a database. Until now its been hard. But when mandatory health checks are implemented for some reason, they will then have the required info when you step in front of that mirror and submit to your yearly health check.

Doom and gloomy in know..but I see only abuse at hand for these advances.

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wow just what I need another conscious,mirror mirror on the wall!

Originally posted by darkdays4u
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I have a feeling that the face tracking system can be linked to databases straight from, sat, a doctors office.

Now, all doctors visits are supposed to be confidential. Are they not?

You can't get a BP from this. And I can't imagine a doctor using it when you can get one with a manual cuff that's cheaper and more reliable.

If you've ever gone to a 'super Walmart', you're on a face-ID linked list anyway. Everyone that goes through the cash register has a photo stored linked to the receipt, and if you use a debit card, food stamps, or check, it's tied to the photo.

I'm sure other places use a similar system, but we've gotten Walmart data dumps here to play with. They're not labeled as such, but it's hard to hide that smiley face thing in some of the backgrounds.

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I did not know that about walmart. I live in the UK and we do not have Wal mart, although they do own Asda.

I am shocked that people would use these supermarkets if their faces are being linked to their purchases.

Yes I have credit cards, two. But I have no given any facial or thumb prints and we do not use signatures anymore in the UK.

Even my application for the original cards has the signature of a cheap circus monkey.

this tech will be adapted for something obscenely intrusive. After all, MIT is well know for inventing techs for various US departments and agencies.

Being such a premiers place of study and achievement i have a feeling that the mirror will have some application.

Originally posted by darkdays4u
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I did not know that about walmart. I live in the UK and we do not have Wal mart, although they do own Asda.

I'm sure Tesco will catch up soon, if they're not already there!

I am shocked that people would use these supermarkets if their faces are being linked to their purchases.

It's not one of those things they talk about a lot as a purchasing feature.

I first found out about it from an old retired Navy Senior CPO (UK CPO) that was running security here in Pensacola at one of the bigger Walmarts, he showed us the setup. They make dvds and send them back to Wallyworld central for storage. Then later we started seeing them in a data fusion project we were in at the time. And then we ended up bidding a system for another big grocery chain here - same thing, only they were using the affinity card to link pics and photos as well.

Yes I have credit cards, two. But I have no given any facial or thumb prints and we do not use signatures anymore in the UK.

But your name is tied to the card, and it's on the magstripe. Once I read it, and get a pic or three, I have you.

this tech will be adapted for something obscenely intrusive. After all, MIT is well know for inventing techs for various US departments and agencies.

Well, so are we - here you generally have picture drivers licenses and photo ids, those go into the blender as well. There, a lot of people have passports since France is a drive away, and those will end up in the machine in time.