How to camouflage yourself from facial recognition technology
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How to camouflage yourself from facial recognition technology
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Re: How to camouflage yourself from facial recognition technology
#2There's never been a better time to be a creepy stalker.
Back in the beginning when Facebook wasn't stalker friendly I remember wanting to have auto tagging based on facial recognition. Now... now I'm afraid that I'll get tagged by other people in facebook (even though I'm not part of it anymore) and facebook will of course make money by selling all the facial patterns to third parties.
The applications of facial recognition make my mind fly, they remind me of Minority Report and marketers recognizing you wherever you go, it makes me think of even more divorces based on far more evidence that will be automatically available on social networks.
I think I'll start wearing some make-up a few months from now, or turn my face away every time I see a camera. The end of anonymity is near.
Re: How to camouflage yourself from facial recognition technology
#3liquid sky
Re: How to camouflage yourself from facial recognition technology
#4There's never been a better time to be a creepy stalker. Back in the beginning when Facebook wasn't stalker friendly I remember wanting to have auto tagging based on facial recognition. Now... now I'm afraid that I'll get tagged by other people in facebook (even though I'm not part of it anymore) and facebook will of course make money by selling all the facial patterns to third parties. The applications of facial rec…
If you're really concerned, the solution is simple. Don't tell your friends the same name that you tell the government. If a bunch of people tag you as "John Smith" on Facebook, and "Bill Smitthers" is the person that is behind on his back taxes, face recognition with data bought from Facebook is not going to find you.
Re: How to camouflage yourself from facial recognition technology
#5There's never been a better time to be a creepy stalker. Back in the beginning when Facebook wasn't stalker friendly I remember wanting to have auto tagging based on facial recognition. Now... now I'm afraid that I'll get tagged by other people in facebook (even though I'm not part of it anymore) and facebook will of course make money by selling all the facial patterns to third parties. The applications of facial rec…
If you're really concerned, the solution is simple. Don't tell your friends the same name that you tell the government. If a bunch of people tag you as "John Smith" on Facebook, and "Bill Smitthers" is the person that is behind on his back taxes, face recognition with data bought from Facebook is not going to find you.
Why'd you assume that the government was his (only) concern?
Re: How to camouflage yourself from facial recognition technology
#6One interesting thing I've read is that eyebrows may be more important for face recognition (by humans) than the appearance of the eyes themselves. (I suspect this has more to do with the shape of the brow bone than the eyebrow hair.)
See this example: http://i.imgur.com/ADXtF.png
The research was done by Pawan Sinha at MIT.
Re: How to camouflage yourself from facial recognition technology
#7Or, to avoid detection by cameras entirely, lemon juice: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/the-anosogno...
"But I wore the juice!"
Re: How to camouflage yourself from facial recognition technology
#8One interesting thing I've read is that eyebrows may be more important for face recognition (by humans) than the appearance of the eyes themselves. (I suspect this has more to do with the shape of the brow bone than the eyebrow hair.) See this example: http://i.imgur.com/ADXtF.png The research was done by Pawan Sinha at MIT.
Interesting, because shaving you eyebrows is easy and is not as conspicuous as painting your face.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're really concerned, the solution is simple. Don't tell your friends the same name that you tell the government. If a bunch of people tag you as "John Smith" on Facebook, and "Bill Smitthers" is the person that is behind on his back taxes, face recognition with data bought from Facebook is not going to find you.
Why'd you assume that the government was his (only) concern?
s/government/whatever/g;
Re: How to camouflage yourself from facial recognition technology
#10One interesting thing I've read is that eyebrows may be more important for face recognition (by humans) than the appearance of the eyes themselves. (I suspect this has more to do with the shape of the brow bone than the eyebrow hair.) See this example: http://i.imgur.com/ADXtF.png The research was done by Pawan Sinha at MIT.
Interesting, because shaving you eyebrows is easy and is not as conspicuous as painting your face.
Sure, or wearing a headband over the eyebrows. But computers probably detect faces differently, so I don't know if this would fool a computer.