A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system

Post by ThrustVectoring » Thu, May 11, 2017, 6:51 AM UTC

executesorder66 wrote: post #160

sbuttgereit wrote: post #85

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The future was here in 1995.... I worked for the U.S. Postal service for a time doing data entry (here as a matter of fact... http://www.sltrib.com/news/3445651-155/the-first-and-last-of... ). That job measured the number of keystrokes per hour of each employee. You had to maintain a 10,000 keystrokes per hour minimum data entry rate, they also spot checked for accuracy. Capturing the data you were suppose to enter (…

> what you entered, and what should have been entered. If they knew what should have been entered, why couldn't they just automate the data entry?

Post by wfunction » Thu, May 11, 2017, 6:54 AM UTC

Godel_unicode wrote: post #176

_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 love how many people replied to your comment about how creepy this is with their age, appearance, and gender.

Post by AznHisoka » Thu, May 11, 2017, 6:55 AM UTC

amingilani wrote: post #161

_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…

By grinning like an idiot I was classified as a very happy 33 year old female. I'm a 25 year old male. I tried variations of the standard expressions and pulled off sad, disgust, anger quite easily. I knew binge watching Lie To Me before my psychology mid would come handy at some point!

Post by hnatt » Thu, May 11, 2017, 7:03 AM UTC

pravda wrote: post #140

TFortunato wrote: post #59

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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-…

I uploaded Comrade Putin. [1] Thinks he is 45 years old. He is 64! Not calibrated for the superior Russian genetics. [1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CuV5wciUAAA0aBz.jpg

Post by mdpopescu » Thu, May 11, 2017, 7:06 AM UTC

state_less wrote: post #129

FridgeSeal wrote: post #84

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It really annoys me that these are deployed in public spaces where you essentially can't opt-out or fight the tracking like you can online (ad blockers, script execution control etc).

Might be time to pull out the regulations (a.k.a protections). You could destroy the market for this sort of thing if executives went to jail or were fined out of business.