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I went to a concert the other night, and they where scanning driver licenses and running facial recognition on everyone entering. It was very disconcerting. It is clear to me that we need new laws to protect against the misuse of this technology. Laws that apply to everyone without exceptions for law enforcement. If we don't I fear we are headed towards a 1984 type of future.
Legally, this is the only way to destroy these big brother obsessions that creepy companies like Amazon have.
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Also don't go to concerts that do this.
It’s not like this is listed on the ticket. You don’t know how the venue is going to enforce until you’re there for the first time.
Then post a warning on Waze as part of their civic duty, alongside a last minute ticket sale
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Outside of facial recognition, the service will allow online marketplaces and dating sites to stay safer. They all have a problem where spammers and fraudsters post images with content meant to deceive or abuse site policies. With facial recognition, app developers can build services like the ones tgat Google and Apple have built in their phones; the ability to look at your photos to see which ones have you or others…
I cannot think of a single way facial recognition will really truly help either of those “stay safer”. I find Google and Apple’s photo recognition features to be of extremely limited usefulness to begin with. Don’t really except other devs to come up with other compelling use cases. Facial recognition is a technology without a killer app. Unless that killer app is over-the-top, oppressive Big Brother-like security.
The types of sites I reference are frequently targeted by phishing attempts via text on image. Rekognition can help thawrt that.
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Outside of facial recognition, the service will allow online marketplaces and dating sites to stay safer. They all have a problem where spammers and fraudsters post images with content meant to deceive or abuse site policies. With facial recognition, app developers can build services like the ones tgat Google and Apple have built in their phones; the ability to look at your photos to see which ones have you or others…
I cannot think of a single way facial recognition will really truly help either of those “stay safer”. I find Google and Apple’s photo recognition features to be of extremely limited usefulness to begin with. Don’t really except other devs to come up with other compelling use cases. Facial recognition is a technology without a killer app. Unless that killer app is over-the-top, oppressive Big Brother-like security.
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all this FUD around facial recognition being bad for everyone feels eerily similar to the FUD that strong encryption is good for terrorists
FUD aside, I'm with the GP on a question that you might have an answer for: How will Rekognition positively affect the common person?
Everybody should be able to copyright their likeness in images and file for monetary damages if they believe their copyright is being infringed. Legally, this is the only way to destroy these big brother obsessions that creepy companies like Amazon have.
Everybody should be able to copyright their likeness in images and file for monetary damages if they believe their copyright is being infringed. Legally, this is the only way to destroy these big brother obsessions that creepy companies like Amazon have.
That's not what copyright is for.
Woo, better facial recognition for all kinds of nefarious purposes! Edit: Dead serious, how will Rekognition positively affect the common person? All I see is a myriad of possible ways government, corporations and individuals have abused camera footage today, and emboldened with better technology these problems are likely to get much worse.
Woo, better facial recognition for all kinds of nefarious purposes! Edit: Dead serious, how will Rekognition positively affect the common person? All I see is a myriad of possible ways government, corporations and individuals have abused camera footage today, and emboldened with better technology these problems are likely to get much worse.