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You can’t replace your face, says face recognition

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Re: You can’t replace your face, says face recognition

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> you can't change your face. You can obstruct it enough to confuse OpenCV: https://cvdazzle.com/ I wonder if this is the future of fashion?

I think the future is just going to be characterized by massive, constant, widespread destruction of video cameras in public.

And maybe the widespread adoption of burqas for everyone?

Re: You can’t replace your face, says face recognition

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Besides this "regular" use-case there was recently a case when some former adult performer was doxxed using face recognition: http://fusion.net/story/295539/ntechlab-findface-facial-reco... Now, most of you probably don't care enough, only some are doing adult stuff. But let's imagine such a complete image/id database comes into hands of a bad regime. Most countries already collect and save biometric photos not even…

You can bribe someone to put fake data in the database next to your name.

Re: You can’t replace your face, says face recognition

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For someone not really familiar with the FB API, is it possible to get a list of all people in a certain city, or are data mining techniques necessary?

It is possible: https://www.facebook.com/search/114952118516947/residents/pr...

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Re: You can’t replace your face, says face recognition

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For someone not really familiar with the FB API, is it possible to get a list of all people in a certain city, or are data mining techniques necessary?

It is possible: https://www.facebook.com/search/114952118516947/residents/pr...

Not really. Facebook rate-limits all requests. You would need a huge botnet to collect hundreds of millions of photos.

Re: You can’t replace your face, says face recognition

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In quite a few countries upon visiting they take a photo of your face. Some also add finger prints. You cannot obscure that photo as they won't allow you to do so. So yes this can be used against you, actually at th border it is only collected for that purpose, to be able to identify you as a possible suspect. Adding big data in the picture does make it more scary as I don't believe it is completely reliable. If you'…

As the only purpose? Isn't it a little bit more likely that they want to check the same person is using the same passport?

Just to spell out what was implied here:

If a person enters a country multiple times, each time using a different passport under a different name, the government wants to know about it.

Re: You can’t replace your face, says face recognition

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I think the future is just going to be characterized by massive, constant, widespread destruction of video cameras in public.

And maybe the widespread adoption of burqas for everyone?

A good thermal camera, or maybe just gait recognition might not make that effective. No, break up the cameras for scrap.

Re: You can’t replace your face, says face recognition

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Besides this "regular" use-case there was recently a case when some former adult performer was doxxed using face recognition: http://fusion.net/story/295539/ntechlab-findface-facial-reco... Now, most of you probably don't care enough, only some are doing adult stuff. But let's imagine such a complete image/id database comes into hands of a bad regime. Most countries already collect and save biometric photos not even…

Fingerprints also have this issue. You only get ten of them that should last your entire life.

With cooperation, we can build 'revocable biometrics' that mix faces and fingerprints with a password or PIN. To revoke your biometric, simply forget your PIN.

The only thing you can do with these models is verify your claimed identity. They can't be used for search. So they're great for users, but not so great for evil establishments that want to search for terrorists or whatever in large biometrics databases.

Re: You can’t replace your face, says face recognition

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Besides this "regular" use-case there was recently a case when some former adult performer was doxxed using face recognition: http://fusion.net/story/295539/ntechlab-findface-facial-reco... Now, most of you probably don't care enough, only some are doing adult stuff. But let's imagine such a complete image/id database comes into hands of a bad regime. Most countries already collect and save biometric photos not even…

> you can't change your face. You can obstruct it enough to confuse OpenCV: https://cvdazzle.com/ I wonder if this is the future of fashion?

A little off-topic, but the licensing on that page is a mess. Originally:

> Strictly no Ad-Trackers. Strictly no Google Analytics. Otherwise attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

Doesn't state which version of the license, and all Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike version prohibit additional restrictions.

Currently:

> As of April 28, 2016 I have revoke the Creative Commons license for these works because of projects like MegaFace.

Despite the fact that the CC license is perpetual and cannot meaningfully be revoked.

Re: You can’t replace your face, says face recognition

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I think the future is just going to be characterized by massive, constant, widespread destruction of video cameras in public.

And maybe the widespread adoption of burqas for everyone?

No because it will be against the law to cover your face. (Burqas in public space are already against the law in France).
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