Facial recognition technology challenges privacy

Michael Finney More: Bio, Blog, Facebook, Twitter, News Team BOSTON (KGO) -- None of us would ever walk down the street with our private information posted on a name tag, but that's essentially what would happen if a new technology is widely adopted. More and more information about us is now online, but now researchers say what's not easily accessible about many of us can be pieced together. Most of us can go out in public and remain unrecognized, but facial recognition systems may soon allow strangers to snap your pictures and instantly learn your name, your date of birth, where you were born and maybe even your social security number. "I think facial recognition is probably here to stay," said Jennifer Lynch with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Facebook and Google are two companies that are already using some forms of facial recognition. Facebook's "tag suggestions" feature automatically identifies people in photographs as they are uploaded. A video published by Google shows how owners of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus can unlock their phones simply by pointing it at their own face. "We're getting closer to the end of anonymity as we know it," said Carnegie Mellon associate professor Alessandro Acquisti. Acquisti and his fellow researchers at the university have developed an application he says can determine the name and other personal information of a stranger with fairly good accuracy.

Facial recognition technology challenges privacy ABC News

beware facial recognition is in everything and everywhere you go
they are watching everyone

This thread is so true, not to recognize this then you must be either blind or programed to deny the truth.

There is actually a way to upload photos via google and google will run a search for you attempting to IDENTIFY the person. W. T. F.

Terrifying.

yes they have come along way with the technology.

How do you like your eyes being stored on a database?
s & f
for the info

Interestingly they have had the same kind of tech that can show when a person is lying 100%. they don't use it because then we would see if the politicians and PTB are telling the truth. So it can't be used to get Justice in trial and make it cheep. Then it might be used to find out if your mate is cheating...politicians usually are I think.

Wonder how this would work though with that 'everyone has a twin' concept. I was online the other day and saw a girl who is THE spitting twin of my best friend. The only reason I knew it wasn't my bff was the fact this girl had uber long hair, was married and pregnant. All things my bff has NEVER had or done. Also I have seen many people who deeply resemble me, or others I know. So unless this facial recog thing brings back pages of possibilities, I'm not too worried it will 100% name ME when I personally know of 5 others who look like me very closely - and that doesn't count the other 2039852 in the world who resemble me too.

No worries at all.

They will probably combine it with voice recognition software. Someday they will literally be able to tell what type of mood your in, whether you lie about anything, recognize illnesses/drug users...etc. Scary stuff.

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The fact that a Rockefeller wants (facial recognition) to happen...means it probably will.

I am wondering...would wearing sunglasses, a hat and a pollution mask make any difference? This may seem like a silly question to some...buy hey...if it works!

Originally posted by caladonea
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The fact that a Rockefeller wants (facial recognition) to happen...means it probably will.

I am wondering...would wearing sunglasses, a hat and a pollution mask make any difference? This may seem like a silly question to some...buy hey...if it works!

The more of your face you can conceal the harder it will be to identify you, based on your face. A large floppy hat with mirrors, large sunglasses that you change frequently would help...
Of course if they are doing it now based on your face, it will not be long til they also have it based on your body...

Few weeks ago, I was cycling home from the grocery store, there was a light drizzle, so I had my jacket hood up. The road was rutted and bumpy, so I was slightly head down, watching where I was going,

Suddenly, a car going in the opposite direction, stopped, did a 3 point turn, and caught up with me. As it did so, it flashed a set of concealed blue lights (in the UK official vehicles use blue lights), and then swerved in front of me. A woman got out, waving a police badge.

I pulled in, and pulled my hood back.

"Oh, I'm most terribly sorry. Our onboard facial recognition system flagged you as someone we need to talk to in connection with some... events. Now that I can see you myself, its obvious you're not them, stupid bloody computer. You're free to go sir, and once again, I'm sorry for stopping you."

So

Facial recognition isn't that infallible, the problem is, people seem to automatically trust in it.

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yeah I agree it would make a funny society, we could all where joker faces, stick on noses and floppy ears. At least we would be laughing at the machine. Which is the best you can do, just laugh at the machine. Because at the end of the day, it is not the machine that is faulty. It is the out dated and confused and programed humans and others that have lost their way. I way is to remind them of that as much as possible.

Originally posted by BMorris
Few weeks ago, I was cycling home from the grocery store, there was a light drizzle, so I had my jacket hood up. The road was rutted and bumpy, so I was slightly head down, watching where I was going,

Suddenly, a car going in the opposite direction, stopped, did a 3 point turn, and caught up with me. As it did so, it flashed a set of concealed blue lights (in the UK official vehicles use blue lights), and then swerved in front of me. A woman got out, waving a police badge.

I pulled in, and pulled my hood back.

So they would have a picture of your full face, if that matches, then they also have you flagged (potentially) with your hood up.... Want to bet that if you weren't in the system, there would have been more questions? It could always be they thought you were someone else, then again it could be they simply didn't know who you were... And now they do...

"Oh, I'm most terribly sorry. Our onboard facial recognition system flagged you as someone we need to talk to in connection with some... events. Now that I can see you myself, its obvious you're not them, stupid bloody computer. You're free to go sir, and once again, I'm sorry for stopping you."

So

Facial recognition isn't that infallible, the problem is, people seem to automatically trust in it.

Things go down easier with a little sugar, build the database, pretend it isn't as effective as it is. Expand, grow, invest more money in it...
Be interesting the next time you get a new hoodie, especially if you've got a few more layers on, and your hood is up, the first time you wear it, just how far you actually get....