Show HN: Simple Face Recognition Attendance System
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#2Me and my friend had thought about this idea back when we were in college except we were doing it for class attendance.
The professor would take a snap with his phone and then app would give attendance in single shot. Dived into it a little and realized face detection is easy while face recognition is not.
One more thing we were wondering about was how to bypass this attendance system and realized that a photo of individual is enough to proxy his attendance.
Cool project btw.
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#3This does seem cool, but I would also not want to come to your party if you're going to be running facial recognition on me...
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#4Me and my friend had thought about this idea back when we were in college except we were doing it for class attendance. The professor would take a snap with his phone and then app would give attendance in single shot. Dived into it a little and realized face detection is easy while face recognition is not. One more thing we were wondering about was how to bypass this attendance system and realized that a photo of ind…
https://www.datainspektionen.se/nyheter/2019/sanktionsavgift...
Translated from swedish: A swedish hight school did a pilot with a class with 22 pupils with facial recognition for taking attendance. The school is fined with 20 000 USD for invading the pupils privacy. All pupils has agreed to participate but that doesn't matter since the pupils is dependent to the school, they cannot agree to something like this.
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#5Me and my friend had thought about this idea back when we were in college except we were doing it for class attendance. The professor would take a snap with his phone and then app would give attendance in single shot. Dived into it a little and realized face detection is easy while face recognition is not. One more thing we were wondering about was how to bypass this attendance system and realized that a photo of ind…
https://www.datainspektionen.se/nyheter/2019/sanktionsavgift... Translated from swedish: A swedish hight school did a pilot with a class with 22 pupils with facial recognition for taking attendance. The school is fined with 20 000 USD for invading the pupils privacy. All pupils has agreed to participate but that doesn't matter since the pupils is dependent to the school, they cannot agree to something like this.
Probably most important: they didn't bother to ask the supervisory authority before they started their tests, with Datainspektionen only learning of the pilot trough the media.
I think asking for permission rather than forgiveness doesn't work as well when you are part of a government agency.
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#6I'm sorry to say this because you probably worked hard and did a good technical job. But as AI/DL experts we always need to think about ethical concerns related to our work, and I would not want to release code like this online for free.
I'm very well aware that with just a bit of technical knowledge this can be reproduced by others even without this repo. And of course all sorts of organizations and governments can do this in a second. But this shouldn't stop us from remembering that this kind of thing is not a toy, and I would not like to make life easier for somebody that doesn't know much about ML, but is very happy to be served an easy solution to whatever their morally dodgy problem is.
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#7Any plans to add face authentication and liveliness?
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#8While this is only a personal project for fun, please keep in mind that some countries, such as Germany, have strict laws about personal data. And even if they do not have those, as the developer you are always responsible for your code and the data you gather. Face recognition is a mighty and scary tool, so maybe you can use it to teach your guests in a fun way about it?
Also, many face recognition systems are based on open source datasets that are NOT balanced. This can lead to your non-white, non-male friends being not recognized ect. This is both a real problem and also to a dampened mood at your party. Have fun, but be safe and conscious about it!
Re: Show HN: Simple Face Recognition Attendance System
#9I'm sorry to say this because you probably worked hard and did a good technical job. But as AI/DL experts we always need to think about ethical concerns related to our work, and I would not want to release code like this online for free. I'm very well aware that with just a bit of technical knowledge this can be reproduced by others even without this repo. And of course all sorts of organizations and governments can…
Someone who can technically deploy this, but not create it, can also easily pay the small amount needed to get someone to recreate this project.
Not to be a downer on it, but it's a hobby project and hobby-projects should never be a part of anyone's threat profile, or we end up with things like chemistry kit neutering of the 1970s.
Re: Show HN: Simple Face Recognition Attendance System
#10While this is only a personal project for fun, please keep in mind that some countries, such as Germany, have strict laws about personal data. And even if they do not have those, as the developer you are always responsible for your code and the data you gather. Face recognition is a mighty and scary tool, so maybe you can use it to teach your guests in a fun way about it? Also, many face recognition systems are based…
> as a developer you are always responsible for your code
I believe most open source licenses explicitly declare that the developers abrogating that responsibility, including the MIT license under which this project is released.