Re: Apple FaceID
I think is just a generic comment on what can be done with face recognition... Apple’s implementation of Face recognition never leaves the iPhone so the data isn’t shared with anyone, it can’t be, it’s in the Secure Enclave section of the hardware I mentioned before that Apple won’t share.
But the Face recognition ability it has is not limited to Apple and Apple’s iPhoto has been able to ID faces in photos and put names to them for eight years with about 90% accuracy after the user IDs just a few pictures of that same face.
The main difference with FaceID is moving it to 3D and enough accuracy to use it confidently enough to do financial transactions using it.
The CIA’s supercomputers are more than capable of tracking people with face recognition anywhere.
Two limits. Bandwidth and camera coverage. And don’t forget maps/ sunglasses : facial recognition is based on aspect ratios between different topographic features of the face. Cover/ obscure those, and their system gets swamped with false matches, they then have to rely on ancillary data which is much harder to gather & correlate in real time.
That is possible, and why I thought they could be unwilling participants. If I can access your photos on your phone and who owns the phone and what social media profiles that phone visits and where that phone goes and who that phone interacts with. I don’t really need the phones facial recognition data. If I have your name and a bunch of your photos to reference I can use the cameras and facial recognition tech that I did have access too to get everything I need. Plus some new phones have finger print readers and almost everything has voice recognition.
Or it will: From the business insider article I posted earlier about in-q-tel
>>>Apple has Siri; Microsoft has Cortana; Amazon has Alexa.
MindMeld is providing the voice commands for everyone else.
Backed by Google Ventures and Samsung Ventures, among others, MindMeld offers the tech that allows more than 1,200 companies to put voice commands into their apps.
“And we’re still just scratching the surface,” said Founder and CEO Tim Tuttle.
In-Q-Tel invested in 2014<<<
I was involved with a company that sold SEO and targeted advertising online, like when you go to Amazon to look at something and then that something is a banner ad on every other website you go visit.
We had a pharma client I told them we could target advertise blood pressure meds to those that take blood pressure meds, one of the doctor’s in the meeting called me a liar that was impossible due to HIPAA laws. I told him a story. Imagine you walk into a pharmacy you walk up to the counter and fill your prescription pharmacist goes to computer and removes 50 pills from inventory (data point one) I compare that to the data of which phone ip addresses were in proximity to the stores wifi server when that request was made (data point 2) I save that info and cross reference it against which phones were In the store the next time the meds were bought and the next (data points 3+4) now I do the same thing when the medicine is paid for at the counter. Now I have enough data to send an ad to just the phone that was at the store when the meds were taken out of inventory and paid for. And I don’t even have to know your name, your credit card info or any personal data that most people would worry about keeping secure or private. And I can begin to make estimates and predictions, for example those 50 pills will probably last 50 days so I can predict when they will need to make that purchase again and only advertise when it will be most effective. And I can do that with basic technology and public data. Never mind what govco. would have access too like recorded future and who knows what else that is still secret.
https://www.wired.com/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/
THE INVESTMENT ARMS of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.
The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. The idea is to figure out for each incident who was involved, where it happened and when it might go down. Recorded Future then plots that chatter, showing online “momentum” for any given event.
“The cool thing is, you can actually predict the curve, in many cases,” says company CEO Christopher Ahlberg, a former Swedish Army Ranger with a PhD in computer science. Which naturally makes the 16-person Cambridge, Massachusetts, firm attractive to Google Ventures, the search giant’s investment division, and to In-Q-Tel, which handles similar duties for the CIA and the wider intelligence community.