Thanks to facial recognition, a third person is arrested following a pop concert

Post by 8_hours_ago » Thu, May 24, 2018, 6:55 PM UTC

MarkMMullin wrote: post #3

josefresco wrote: post #2

Masks and temporary/permanent face altering techniques will explode as this technology takes hold. I think about it like ad-blocking, something that may work itself into the mainstream despite it's questionable ethics.

If the technology just stayed at facial recognition, maybe - I work on stereoscopic vision, so you'd have to change your head geometry too for my cameras if you're in parallax range..... and we're getting to the point of being able to do realtime skeletal pose analysis -- https://storage.googleapis.com/tfjs-models/demos/posenet/cam... So, it's an arms race :-/

Post by JTbane » Thu, May 24, 2018, 7:10 PM UTC

coolspot wrote: post #48

wilsonnb wrote: post #23

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It's already illegal in many states in the US. Possibly at the local level as well. Here's the relevant law for Virginia. https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter9/secti... It's a class 6 felony, which in VA means you'll be looking at "a term of imprisonment of not less than one year nor more than five years, or in the discretion of the jury or the court trying the case without a jury, confinement in jai…

> However, the provisions of this section shall not apply to persons (i) wearing traditional holiday costumes; It doesn't say I can't wear traditional holiday costume outside of holiday, so it should be okay to wear Halloween scary costume all year long.

Post by nnq » Thu, May 24, 2018, 7:31 PM UTC

derefr wrote: post #43

J-dawg wrote: post #40

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Or to take the idea further, can you wear a cross necklace and a halloween mask? Or a hijab and a welding mask? One item is signalling your religion, the other is covering your face. Neither item is covering your face in a way that signals your religion. I feel like any attempt at imposing anti-privacy laws while keeping some pretence of a free society ultimately descends into farce, because the two ideas are basical…

No, you misunderstand; the law doesn't say anything about covering your face, it just says "you can't display your religious affiliation in public." A hijab happens to cover your face, but it's illegal to wear in public only because it's a religious telltale, not because of its function. You can't wear the cross necklace, or have the bumper-sticker; they signal religion. And you can wear the halloween mask, or the we…

Post by nnq » Thu, May 24, 2018, 7:39 PM UTC

wedn3sday wrote: post #44

joering2 wrote: post #22

10 years from now frontpage HN: "Thanks to cameras placed in every room of every Chinese house, 10,000 people have been saved from otherwise being abused, kidnapped, raped or trafficked this month alone!" Yay!

If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear!

Post by superhuzza » Thu, May 24, 2018, 7:42 PM UTC

gldalmaso wrote: post #5

josefresco wrote: post #2

Masks and temporary/permanent face altering techniques will explode as this technology takes hold. I think about it like ad-blocking, something that may work itself into the mainstream despite it's questionable ethics.

The sci-fi cyberpunk genre might have accidentally/accurately predicted this trend. The artwork makes heavy use of face/head mods and accessories.