A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system

Post by tyingq » Thu, May 11, 2017, 3:03 AM UTC

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #89

dragonwriter wrote: post #53

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It wasn't that prescient; public-location commercial facial recognition system had been deployed for several years, and companies were, IIRC, already actively promoting customer tracking and advertising applications at the time.

It's worth noting the 2002 movie Minority Report is based on a shorty story of the same name published by Philip K. Dick in 1956. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Minority_Report

Post by paulddraper » Thu, May 11, 2017, 3:06 AM UTC

akhilcacharya wrote: post #72

_kb wrote: post #15

You'd be surprised / scared / outraged if you knew how common this is. Any time you've been in a public place for the past few years, you've likely been watched, analysed and optimised for. Advertising in the physical world is just as scummy as it's online equivalent. Check out the video here http://sightcorp.com/ for an ultra creepy overview. You can even try their live demo: https://face-api.sightcorp.com/demo_basi…

Oh dear it thinks I'm a 35 year old woman...

Post by kbenson » Thu, May 11, 2017, 3:09 AM UTC

hackuser wrote: post #88

ioquatix wrote: post #83

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We used to do this in a school - it wasn't creepy - hear me out: We had labs of iMacs and if anything happened to a machine, kids would (more often than not) just yank the power cord. Occasionally this would foobar the machine entirely and create unnecessary work. We couldn't catch the culprits. So, if the machine managed to boot up successfully, after an unexpected power loss, we would take a photo using the built i…

Couldn't you just identify the user by their logon?

Post by cortesoft » Thu, May 11, 2017, 3:12 AM UTC

TFortunato wrote: post #59

_kb wrote: post #15

You'd be surprised / scared / outraged if you knew how common this is. Any time you've been in a public place for the past few years, you've likely been watched, analysed and optimised for. Advertising in the physical world is just as scummy as it's online equivalent. Check out the video here http://sightcorp.com/ for an ultra creepy overview. You can even try their live demo: https://face-api.sightcorp.com/demo_basi…

I tried the demo. A little sad, that it sees me as 12 years older than I am, and that I apparently always look angry and disgusted! I'm going to blame it on my glasses and bushy beard, and try to look at the bright side - apparently face scanning systems aren't quite good enough to get a read on me yet. (And try not to be too sad about looking like a grumpy old man) (Anyone else with a glasses, a beard, or other non-…

Post by hn_throwaway_99 » Thu, May 11, 2017, 3:18 AM UTC

rhizome wrote: post #80

pavement wrote: post #40

Okay, time to start wearing ski masks and Santa Claus costumes in public at all times.

A defense using makeup and hair: https://ahprojects.com/projects/cv-dazzle/