Facial recognition is already used and tested by a number of companies, including educational institutions to stop truancy, airports in the fight against terrorism, and it was used in all stadiums during the World Cup 2014 FIFA for information on potential hooligans and troublemakers.
However, facial recognition technology has had many supporters of the data privacy, and rightly so.
What facial recognition?
So what is the recognition technologyface? Facial recognition is a biometric (such as fingerprints or iris recognition) can identify a person from a digital image stored in a known faces database. It is unique as the fingerprints of an individual, or social security number or credit card number of a person.
There are a number of face recognition software companies as Japanese multinational NEC face recognition system that helps retail companies to follow the robbers, but the technology could also shopping every day feel like a VIP.
in 2013 facial recognition technology has been tested in a number of shops and hotels in the UK, the US and the Far East to detect celebrities. facial recognition technology by NEC was able to recognize the celebrities from one of their image database, and could even identify a person if they were wearing a hat, or wearing sunglasses, or if they changed their hair color.
Feel like a VIP!
Imagine visiting your favorite store, your face could be adapted to the information in the data base of the store, and when you walk into a store, you may be greeted by name by a sales assistant business. But would that make you feel special, like you're a VIP, or would that concern you? But wait! How our pictures would end up on their databases in the first place? Well, there are a number of different ways, for example, when as "a brand on Facebook, say Nike (who currently have over 22 million people) all those who" liked "the Nike Facebook page could find their image downloaded from the facial recognition system.
Jennifer Lynch, legal counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), speaking on Fast Company business magazine said: "Often the data collection in detail, the customer does not know how these data is being used. The client can be offered five dollars off if they give the company's retail their email address, but with a face model, it is the data that follows you: It is followed by store followed in the crate it could be related to your credit card data ... and everything that could be sold to a third party. "
facial recognition systems placed in shops would specifically target buyers, bribe customers for their data with offers complimentary coffee and harass you to spend, spend, spend!
facial recognition is creeping into our lives everyday!
Facebook uses facial recognition, its controversial system "Deepface" to identify people in photos uploaded to their site, when you see permission to "tag" requests pop up. Facebook knows who you are, who you are and what you do by using its facial recognition technology that scans the faces of users and matches.
course , facial recognition poses a more difficult problem regarding privacy. our faces are in the open, we do not know exactly when and where our data is collected and if our data is sold to a third party. Day by day dystopian novel by George Orwell's 1984 is becoming a reality.
In China, face recognition has recently been introduced in two Chinese universities to curb truancy, and to prevent students save their friends on their behalf. According Want China Times, once the facial recognition was operational at 100% of students turned up. There is a surprise!
facial recognition software will soon be implemented in international airports in Australia to match travelers to their passport in order to thwart terrorism and threats to their borders. Australia has tightened its grip on its users, recently the deployment of its data retention plan, a controversial system that threatens the fundamental right of all Australians to privacy.
While in the US, the facial recognition technology is being tested in the Dulles Airport in Washington DC. Facial recognition technology is used to identify potential criminals and terrorists running mugshots of travelers using software and compare it to the picture on their chip of the ePassport. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), were quick to point out that the photos will not be shared with any other organization and will be removed once the program 19 months is over.
a CBP spokesman speaking to the board said: "Technology is an autonomous system and does not communicate with others, databases or systems ... CBP remains committed to protecting privacy of all travelers. "
well, that's reassuring!
Although the US government has not exactly won themselves a medal for honesty the past, so why should we believe them now?
does deleting images are sufficient to protect our privacy?
David Maass of the Electronic Frontier Foundation said mother "Today, it tests at the border, tomorrow it could be deployed face recognition in public places. "Today, the pictures taken are kept separate from other departments and agencies, tomorrow they could be shared for a whole host of other purposes."
On a lighter note, facial recognition is used to find lost pets. Miami-Dade Animal Services in Florida will become the first refuge for using the application, Finding Rover, which helps reunite pet owners with their lost dog. Owners simply download the app and take a snapshot of their dog on their smartphone. If your dog wanders off 'Littlest Hobo style, the dog owner can press a button on the application, the dog's image is analyzed by a facial recognition software and hope that the owner and dog together. Check out other ways facial recognition is used!
So now you know that facial recognition is, how do you feel about that? Do you fear that every move you make, every breath you take, someone could be watching you?
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