Apparently the worrisome news of online privacy haven't stopped proposals and research for a facial recognition system unlike any other. A system which was able to match webcam images and Facebook profiles 31% of the time. Though 31% isn't much; it is clear that maintaining anonymity is becoming harder and harder. Carnegie Melon University Researches demonstrated that system and findings at the Black Hat computer security conference in Las Vegas. Google engineers have had talks about the possibility of using their technology for such a purpose but claim they don't have any actual plans.
CMU students volunteered for an experiment in which their images were successfully identified with their Facebook profiles about 30% of the time. Over "278,000 thousand Facebook pictures and 6,000 dating profiles" were also tested and 1-in10 were able to be identified.
For now these type of systems work only with front facing photos but as technology gets better and better, wont be long till a single photograph will be able to bring up a persons complete information.
(Sources: Popsci, Carnegie Melon, CMU, Google)
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that's really creepy to me!
Yeah i have researched online facial recognition for a side project, its becoming pretty standard now-a-days and eventually has technology improves everyone will know you everywhere, just like a video game with the name above your head.
it is really creepy, it only dawned on me when i recently uploaded an album and it started pulling faces out and asking for names, it then filled other photos in, 1984 thing
Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king. Supporting!
I'm okay with this
This scares me alot..
F*** everything about this!
I'm all for progress but this bullshit. More bad than good can only come from this.
It will be interesting to see how far anonymity lasts. I think the internet should remain a wild west.
wow that is not good at all. but how are they going to know? what if one wears a mask??
Crazy, I'm all for anomity
Great man. I loved
i hate facebook after it uploaded all of my phone numbers from my smart phone WITHOUT asking
I cant wait for the video cameras in our halls to be able to facially recognize which person befouls the bathrooms at work!
This makes me wonder about the safety of a person's identity in the future.
Yeah this is a huge violation of our privacy for advertisers and governments to index us like this. It is a real shame.
The latest assistance in supplementing minitrue's flagship line: the Face Book!
Clotifoth, excellent comment haha. Glad someone is keeping 1984 in mind!
That is... utterly terrifying. I don't want to be tracked like that. One of these days I'm going to go live in the mountains like a hippie, swear to God.
...stalker much?
Zuckerberg is losing it!
hmm, this could be useful but harmful
That thing looks kinda neat, but I'm sure Google Plus will do the same soon enough.
This scares me some what.
Big brother is out there! Scary technology right ther
Wow, I'm becoming more and more disturbed by the privacy abuse of the large companies like google of now fb.
This would be cool if they can do it.
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