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Intel is also tracking everyone through the use of a very low level instruction shipped inside of every intel CPU. Details of this trust busting instruction can be found here: https://c9x.me/x86/html/file_module_x86_id_5.html It has also been discovered that many common languages such as C and PHP also implement abstractions to make this low level instruction much easier to use to track people with. The common use ca…
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The facial recognition cat is out of the bag. If AWS is "enabling dystopia", so are Linux and Ethernet.
Linux and Ethernet do not "Easily add intelligent image and video analysis to your applications."
You can do positive things with Rekognition. You can do dystopian things with it, too. Get AWS to stop doing it and folks will just use GCP and Azure's similar offerings.
This is a problem that fundamentally needs government regulation to be successfully addressed.
I'm a little surprised that a Libertarian think tank is taking issue with a private company going about its very profitable business.
Rekognition is a public service and not specific to law enforcement use[1]. [1]: https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/ Disclaimer: I work for AWS.
>Rekognition is a public service When this is used to track/recognize my face in a crowd what service is it that I'm receiving?
Kind of confused why Rekognition continues to be made into the 'bad guy' here. Even if stronger protections are rolled out for this it's become far too easy to make these types of systems to do a great job of keeping them at bay at this point. Most people with programming experience could roll out a reasonably accurate facial comparison/recognition model like Rekognition and deploy it to a Raspberry Pi without expell…
If you ever have children, wait for them to make this same argument. It should happen around the age of five.
I guess we will all have to wear a full face of juggalo makeup to remain anonymous in public from now on.
> Amazon’s facial recognition service, Rekognition, is designed to identify and track people going about their daily business. This isn’t hyperbole - a Rekognition spokesperson explicitly mentioned real-time tracking and identification at an Amazon Web Services summit earlier this year. The same spokesperson went on to call Orlando a “smart city,” with cameras everywhere that allow authorities to track persons of int…
Clarifying edit: I'm not being disingenuous. I may be too close to the technology to grok why this thread is a down-vote minefield. Running OpenCV on an Arduino board is years-old proof-of-concept stuff and now I have an AWS DeepLens sitting on my desk that can name which of my neighbors walked their dog past my house.
We're all equal when we are in public view, right?
As long as I or you can use it to track the coming and going of your Congressman and Senators, at the same price that Amazon charges others, I guess it is okay. That nice townhouse he visited with the attractive blonde who lives there, while his wife was out of town? It's ok for me to track and then publish the info, right? We're all equal when we are in public view, right?
> Amazon’s facial recognition service, Rekognition, is designed to identify and track people going about their daily business. This isn’t hyperbole - a Rekognition spokesperson explicitly mentioned real-time tracking and identification at an Amazon Web Services summit earlier this year. The same spokesperson went on to call Orlando a “smart city,” with cameras everywhere that allow authorities to track persons of int…