India is forcing this Orwelling nightmare upon all its citizens (under very shady circumstances).
http://www.rediff.com/news/column/the-aaadhar-effect-say-bye...
A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system
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#232It saddens me that there are people in our profession for whom implementing such a thing presents no moral or ethical dilemma.
It saddens me that most people refuse to accept that not everybody shares their morals, and that it might be them that are wrong. I'm not saying there isn't an absolute right and wrong, but I certainly don't find this as abhorrent as most people here, apparently.
You'd have a point if this was a general statement, but in the case of automated facial recognition it's almost universally despised across the world.
If you're not sharing this position it could be that you are younger or have been subjected to the conditioning of population by industries to make intrusive surveillance technology acceptable to them which has been going on for at least 15+ years afaik.
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#233God the comments on that tweet are enough to make me lose all faith in humanity, honestly what is wrong with people.
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#234You'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…
Try it but first take some clay and apply it all over your face that's skin-tone... then use that as your face ha.
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#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
It saddens me that most people refuse to accept that not everybody shares their morals, and that it might be them that are wrong. I'm not saying there isn't an absolute right and wrong, but I certainly don't find this as abhorrent as most people here, apparently.
So what am I supposed to do if I find this invading my privacy? Not walk within 10m of such a billboard? It's not like there's any other active way to opt out of this. I suppose a banner saying "you are being tracked" on tom of such a billboard could have quite an interesting effect. Come to think of it I've seen "Smile, you're being recorded!" in some shops.
Curious: If someone sat at a cafe near by and recorded on pen and paper visible details of people walking by, would that be as bad?
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Re: A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system
#237You'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 was very unhappy to discover that shoes now often have RFIDs built into soles. This + anti-theft RFIDs readers that are already deployed by the entry of most stores can allow to easily assign unique ids to shoppers.
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#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
It saddens me that most people refuse to accept that not everybody shares their morals, and that it might be them that are wrong. I'm not saying there isn't an absolute right and wrong, but I certainly don't find this as abhorrent as most people here, apparently.
So what am I supposed to do if I find this invading my privacy? Not walk within 10m of such a billboard? It's not like there's any other active way to opt out of this. I suppose a banner saying "you are being tracked" on tom of such a billboard could have quite an interesting effect. Come to think of it I've seen "Smile, you're being recorded!" in some shops.
You're supposed to come out at night with a countermeasure masking your face and destroy the billboard.
IIRC the countermeasure is quite easy and requires something like a LED and a battery, but I may be wrong it's been 10+ years.
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#239It saddens me that there are people in our profession for whom implementing such a thing presents no moral or ethical dilemma.
Has nothing to do with morals - people gotta eat
Has everything to do with ethics and morality. You can eat without being a cog in the mega big machine trying to crush us all.
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#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. Who is agreeing to build such dystopian technologies?
I would totally get interested in building this, have a half-good working prototype. All before I'd even considered that someone else might use it for evil...
> someone else might use it for evil...
Correction: Someone will use it for evil. This kind of tech is hot stuff for people engaged in evil.