FTC Comment Period on Facial Recognition Technology ...
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(snip)"Facial recognition, on the other hand, is being used in various photo-tagging applications. Representatives from both Google and Facebook were among those at the workshop discussing how their social networks were using the technology.
"Facial recognition is also one of the things we talked about with possible future uses, which are numerous," Koulousias said. These include using facial recognition to unlock a cell phone or to detect a consumer's emotional reaction to an ad.
One of the workshop attendees, Prof. Alesandro Acquisti, spoke about a study he recently conducted to determine if facial recognition technology could be used to identify previously anonymous photos online, such as ones found on dating websites.
For many of the privacy and consumer advocates at the workshop, the main issue was whether consumers were aware of how facial recognition technology was being implemented and what degree of consumer control, if any, is built into these products.
"With facial detection in digital signs, is there a notice to consumers that the digital sign is using a camera that implements facial detection?" Koulousias asked. "Is there a notice if the ads are being targeted based on that?"
Under Section 5 of the FTC Act, the agency has the ability to bring cases if an act is deemed unfair or deceptive. At this point, though, the agency is in an information-gathering mode. "We're really trying to figure out what's going on in this space, how it's being used, where it's going [and] bring everybody together to discuss these issues," Koulousias said.
The FTC is soliciting public comments on these technologies through Jan. 31 on its website. "Once we get the responses and see what the responses to our questions are, we will decide where to go from there," she said. "(snip)
In the worst case, where camgirls are concerned, facial recognition technology has the potential ability to automatically match up a high school yearbook picture, college ID picture, news media picture etc. ( with info on the person's true identity ) with webcam screen caps or any other pictures posted on the internet. Where gov't agencies and 'authorized' investigators are concerned, the use of states' drivers' license photo databases in conjunction with facial recognition technology offers the potential for total loss of official 'anonymity' for any camgirl / adult industry model / actress.
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would a disguise (contoured features) maybe help lessen the chance of being matched up to a regular picture of ourselves?
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also in this article about Google making an app that would identify people's faces:
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-03-31/t...man?_s=PM:TECH
it mentions having to check a box allowing this app permission to identify you. So do this allow some sort of control regarding our privacy?
Google acknowledges the nefarious ways someone could leverage facial-recognition technology.
Many people "are rightfully scared of it," Neven said. "In particular, women say, 'Oh my God. Imagine this guy takes a picture of me in a bar, and then he knows my address just because somewhere on the Web there is an association of my address with my photo.' That's a scary thought. So I think there is merit in finding a good route that makes the power of this technology available in a good way."
Took this from another article on CNN about the software:
In another instance, she said, Google's Picasa thought a lollipop was her friend.
As she uses facial recognition programs, Schlittenhard is coming face to face with a fact that has been troubling computer scientists for decades:
It's hard to teach a machine to know a human face -- and it's harder still to teach a computer to identify one face from any other.
That may be comforting news for people worried about governments using facial recognition systems to surveil the public -- in effect, ending anonymity.
Technologists say those ideas exist only in science fiction movies -- at least for now.
"I don't think, currently, any facial recognition system is good enough for security purposes -- not even close, actually," said Yi Ma, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois, and a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research in China.
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Its only a matter of time until employers start using facial recognition software like they do with google to google a potential new employee's name. Its weird how a lot of people are in denial about this. Technology is only going to get much better much faster.
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This isn't too far away. That's why I'm doing my best to "ungoogle" myself while I still have the chance. But a lot of things are out of your control, like if your photo is uploaded at a yearbook site or things like that. I wasn't comfortable with the lack of anonymity I felt because of Facebook even before I started camming.
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I always feel like somebody's watching me. No wonder I am so.damn.paranoid. lol Looks like soon, it's not the credit report showing our past that we gotta worry about, but new employers running facial recognition software to find out. I'll know what's up when they look at me and say, "Smile for the camera!" Ugh.