Show HN: Simple Face Recognition Attendance System

Post by shadowgovt » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 1:06 PM UTC

iveqy wrote: post #4

rohan1024 wrote: post #2

Me 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.

Post by shadowgovt » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 1:12 PM UTC

true_religion wrote: post #9

martopix wrote: post #6

I'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.

Post by A4ET8a8uTh0 » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 1:18 PM UTC

shadowgovt wrote: post #13

true_religion wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Precisely. When the technology has become simple enough that it's in "hobby project in github" territory, plugging our ears and pretending not teaching people how to use the technology will solve the social problems is dodging the underlying issue.

Post by scbrg » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 2:27 PM UTC

shadowgovt wrote: post #11

iveqy wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Wow. Sweden has profoundly misapplied the concept of privacy when it is no longer possible for a person to voluntarily yield privacy for a project they find interesting.

Post by saber6 » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 3:49 PM UTC

martopix wrote: post #6

I'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…