Face Recognition - The next thing to worry about.

[ol' boy]

Well, with one Technology, comes add on Technologies.
I'd say, this one will slip through the most undetected though.

Just think how many Cameras are already out there, in ALDI, in Service Stations, Banks, Council CCTV, Car Parks, Airports, Cafes, Hotels.
Now add one new Technology to that captured data.... Facial Recognition.


Note this Video from NEC is already 9 months old

Walmat have already added FR to monitor its Customers and Return Customers.
As if Number Plate Recognition wasn't bad enough (which already has a data base attached), or Smartphones.
What will happen when FR is attached?
Who gets to store the data?
Who gets to share the data?
So when you use your Credit Card at a POS, and Camera is there that also takes your FR data, mmmmmmm.

Will be interesting times ahead.

[JasonC]

minority report had it just about spot on I reckon

[jwoegerbauer]

The vast majority of people probably have not understood that in the background a technological revolution in the field of video surveillance is taking place, towards a technique that can specifically identify and track objects and people. This is a new level, and you can not detect whether the camera simply is a 'stupid' video camera or a smart surveillance system.

The software is there, it only lacks the mass distribution, the algorithms are ready. We will see that also different groups of commercial users will be using it.

Commercially could face detection be used in a department store or supermarket, for example. In the near future it then is not needed to identify the customers by name. It is sufficient if they are 'recognized' when they come into the store. Their purchasing behavior is analyzed with the video camera, and on LED billboards they see as a recommendation then displayed what they bought last time. Algorithms could also analyze the transition of people to recommend corrective insoles - whatever.

Biometrics offers an incredible number of ways. Recently Facebook's research department for artificial intelligence announced, they developed a new algorithm with which they can even identify with an accuracy of 83 % people in photos if their face was obscured - according to their body shape, posture, clothes and hairstyle.

We will notice it is coming, the personalized advertising that depends on one's face. You have absolutely no influence, and it does not matter whether you in the future go to the supermarket disguised, or not.