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You can’t replace your face, says face recognition

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Re: You can’t replace your face, says face recognition

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Post by rmoriz »

Besides this "regular" use-case there was recently a case when some former adult performer was doxxed using face recognition: http://fusion.net/story/295539/ntechlab-findface-facial-reco...

Now, most of you probably don't care enough, only some are doing adult stuff. But let's imagine such a complete image/id database comes into hands of a bad regime.

Most countries already collect and save biometric photos not even for general passport and driver's license documents but also for health insurance issues (like in Germany). Do you trust the health insurance company to store the photos in a way, that no employee nor external attacker is able to "collect" them?

CCTV cameras in public and private places are all over the country, placed in public transportation but also in places like gas stations, restaurants, even in the entries of restroom facilities and of course all over in airports. If you connect all those image sources, which is not a technical problem anymore, you can easily track people, like shown in the fictional "person of interest" tv-series.

You can turn of or throw away your mobile phone/SIM card. But you can't change your face.

Re: You can’t replace your face, says face recognition

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Post by osense »

rmoriz wrote: post #5

Besides this "regular" use-case there was recently a case when some former adult performer was doxxed using face recognition: http://fusion.net/story/295539/ntechlab-findface-facial-reco... Now, most of you probably don't care enough, only some are doing adult stuff. But let's imagine such a complete image/id database comes into hands of a bad regime. Most countries already collect and save biometric photos not even…

> you can't change your face.

You can obstruct it enough to confuse OpenCV: https://cvdazzle.com/

I wonder if this is the future of fashion?

Re: You can’t replace your face, says face recognition

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Post by beagle3 »

osense wrote: post #6
rmoriz wrote: post #5

Besides this "regular" use-case there was recently a case when some former adult performer was doxxed using face recognition: http://fusion.net/story/295539/ntechlab-findface-facial-reco... Now, most of you probably don't care enough, only some are doing adult stuff. But let's imagine such a complete image/id database comes into hands of a bad regime. Most countries already collect and save biometric photos not even…

> you can't change your face. You can obstruct it enough to confuse OpenCV: https://cvdazzle.com/ I wonder if this is the future of fashion?

It only confuses viola jones style haar detectors. You'd need different makeup for every detector.

Re: You can’t replace your face, says face recognition

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Post by drdaeman »

osense wrote: post #6
rmoriz wrote: post #5

Besides this "regular" use-case there was recently a case when some former adult performer was doxxed using face recognition: http://fusion.net/story/295539/ntechlab-findface-facial-reco... Now, most of you probably don't care enough, only some are doing adult stuff. But let's imagine such a complete image/id database comes into hands of a bad regime. Most countries already collect and save biometric photos not even…

> you can't change your face. You can obstruct it enough to confuse OpenCV: https://cvdazzle.com/ I wonder if this is the future of fashion?

In some (quite a lot of!) jurisdictions there are already laws that prohibit concealing ones' face. While the laws are against masks, it won't be a big stretch (esp. for a rogue regime with a plenty of corrupt judges at hand) to apply or extend such laws for this sort of make-up as well. All in the name of public safety, of course.
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