Face Recognition: Anonymous no more (You can’t hide — from anybody)

Economist ^ | 7/30/11

[DManA]

Remember the episode of Seinfeld where Elaine suggested to the David Dinkins aid that all New Yorkers should wear name tags? Technology has fulfilled Elaine’s dream.

[Steely Tom]

BS.

It’s coming, but it’s not here now. False positives and false negatives are way too high.

Still, it is coming. Eventually it will happen.

[FlyVet]

"You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."

- Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, 1/25/99

[RJS1950]

Placing your pic on a PUBLIC social networking site is no different than walking out onto a public sidewalk or street. You have no expectation of privacy regardless of the so-called privacy settings on the site.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

When you visit Fresno, CA you are greeted by face recognition cameras at the airport.

[MeganC]

I’ve often wondwered why the military won’t come up with weapons that use facial recognition. Imagine a claymore mine with a camera on it being left where an al Qaeda guy might have coffee. It could be planted and left there in the certain knowledge that when the guy finally shows up it’ll get him.

[sanjuanbob]

Face recognition in a crowd

This is the crowd before the riot.

Put your cursor anywhere in the crowd and double-click.

Keep double clicking and see what happens.

This is a great tool for law enforcement

Check this out .... This is the photo taken by Port Moody photographer Ronnie Miranda that appeared in our Tri-City News last Friday (24-June).When you open this up, check the left hand side where you can upsize the photo, and click on the Yellow print “view with GigaTag”.This is actually scary. You can see - perfectly - the faces of every single individual - and there were thousands!Privacy? Just think what the police and the military have at their disposal. http://www.gigapixel.com/image/gigapan-canucks-g7.html

[B-Cause]

The aircraft silently circling at 5,000 feet above a metropolitan area can be equipped with sensors to acquire adequate imagery of people on the ground and can then downlink the data to a ground based receiver that can incorporate the facial recognition software for identification. Law enforcement agencies will bang the acquired imagery against their data bases of photos of known or wanted criminals. Of course this data can be placed on the Internet as well.

And the people on the ground are totally oblivious to it.

This is happening today!

[flowerplough]

Face Recognition: Anonymous no more

You can’t hide — in the city - from anybody.

[PAR35]

The aircraft silently circling at 5,000 feet above a metropolitan area can be equipped with sensors to acquire adequate imagery of people on the ground

Why? Most major highways in metro areas have been lined with cameras. Most streets in urban areas are lined with cameras. Office buildings and churches (if they care about the folks that go there) have cameras aimed at every door.

[Erik Latranyi]

That is a voyeur’s dream come true!

[LibWhacker]

Yeah. The first tyrant who comes along and decides to employ this technology to hunt down and eliminate his opposition, wins.

I’ll probably be tottering down the street someday soon, with the help of my walker, and I’ll hear a SEIU thug yell out, in his unmistakable turd world accent, “THERE’S ONE! A FREEPER! GET HIM!”... POW POW POW POW... and that’ll be the end of old LibWhacker.

Cheers!

[DManA]

We should all start waring veils.

[B-Cause]

Why? Most major highways in metro areas have been lined with cameras. Most streets in urban areas are lined with cameras. Office buildings and churches (if they care about the folks that go there) have cameras aimed at every door.

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Security for events that bring masses of people together at Olympic events, Professional sporting events, political rallies, etc.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Does this mean when people use photos of models and claim it is themselves you will be able to scan that photo and get a real name? I see profile pages being scrubbed clean! lol

[B-Cause]

We should all start waring veils.

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Great response. Let's start selling burkas.

[PAR35]

They already have cameras there.

[LibWhacker]

Oh, yeah, I’ve seen those GigaPix photos before, about a year or two ago before they implemented the GigaTag feature... Amazing! Thx.

[B-Cause]

They already have cameras there.

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True, but the plane can be re-positioned quickly and told to concentrate on a given area. In addition, the quality of the sensor's optics far exceeds every visible ground based security camera. Plus thermal imagery is available as well.