A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system

Post by lloeki » Thu, May 11, 2017, 1:57 PM UTC

edanm wrote: post #379

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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.

"So what am I supposed to do if I find this invading my privacy?" There are laws and customs around public places and what may be done there. E.g. depending on your local laws, if you're in public, people can usually take pictures of you and there's also nothing you can do about that. Don't like it? Petition to have the laws changed. This is how we deal with such things in a democracy. Trying to guild the engineers w…

Post by ChristianGeek » Thu, May 11, 2017, 2:03 PM UTC

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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'm a 25 year old male, bald with a full beard, and it thinks I'm a 33 year old woman. At least it could tell I was happy?

Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 11, 2017, 2:04 PM UTC

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It is still a BIG ethical issue for some people. Myself I see this as just the natural progression we are headed. If we don't have rules about this kind of technology it will very much be "Minority Report" in a decade.

How is it an ethical issue for strangers to look at your face when you are out in public?

Post by ffriend » Thu, May 11, 2017, 2:21 PM UTC

retube wrote: post #214

ffriend wrote: post #208

As someone working on a similar project (specifically, emotion recognition) I'm highly interested to hear how such a product should look like to be not considered unethical. So far from the comments I see that: - it should be made clear that you are being analyzed e.g. by big yellow sticker near the camera - no raw data should be stored - it should be used to collect statistics, not identify individuals (?) Is it suf…

I think you're going to have to accept that what you are doing is disliked and considered unethical by the majority.

Post by deadbunny » Thu, May 11, 2017, 2:24 PM UTC

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> maybe call the cops or sue What exactly are you going to call the cops for let alone sue for? While I don't agree with this kind of technology you seem to be overly emotional about it which really doesn't help the issue.

In some countries, like Sweden [1], this type of deployments of cameras are strictly regulated. A quick reading of the rules in Sweden tells me that you are unlikely to get permission for this easily. [1] http://www.datainspektionen.se/lagar-och-regler/kameraoverva...