Posted on 05/03/2016 6:01:09 AM PDT by dayglored
* All in a good cause: FamilyNotes is for learning the Face API *
Microsoft has GitHubbed a framework that could finally make an Internet-connected refrigerator useful: an application for family members to leave notes for each other.
Well, actually FamilyNotes is a developer demonstrator with two aims: to give developers more examples of putting code together in the Universal Windows Platform, and to help Microsoft understand how UWP is going.
The app, here, lets a user leave a note tagged for another user, and if the device (for example a tablet) identifies the recipient of the note (using facial recognition), it will show them the note.
While users can type messages to each other, Cortana is what Microsoft hopes will be the main means of interaction, and the Face API passes data to Microsoft Cognitive Services for facial recognition.
(Yes, faces are sent across the cloud. Put down the pitchforks: this is a demonstration and training exercise.)
The full list of features FamilyNotes demonstrates is:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/03/microsoft_wants_devs_to_take_notes_on_their_families/
Cool tech stuff ping...
Uh, huh...
What could go wrong, I can’t see any downside. /s/
If there's going to be unintended consequences, it's probably best that the devs have to walk point.
You think? Information in the cloud about your personal eating habits in your own home? I know our privacy is a myth, but my gosh.
Really?
For whom?
To do what?
With the amount of minutia people post about their lives on Farcebook why would they care about this next level of intrusion?
Yep. Appearing in and posting online porn pics and vids of themselves is just another form of social media to some of them.
Sounds to me like its for content management whereby the recipient’s ID is verified before the media becomes viewable.
We do that now using smart cards and a PIN.
Its just another twist on security by means of “knowing something, having something”.
Goofy tech stuff
Good point, but it will get all too interesting when look-alikes are accused of crimes they didn't commit, or get in trouble with their spouses for being somewhere they weren't. I don't believe computers are nearly good enough to not make mistakes that can ruin people's lives.
The same problem has, of course, existed for centuries with identical twins. But this takes it to a whole new level of potential trouble.
The next thing we'll hear is that someone develops a technology for a mask that can be made from the uploaded facial data, so that your neighbor can masquerade as you when they do something untoward. Just wait... :-)
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