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I have a great way to explain Facial Recognition and why it's important.... _________________________________ I wrote a program called uWho(https://github.com

by kefka 11y ago

I have a great way to explain Facial Recognition and why it's important.... _________________________________ I wrote a program called uWho(https://github.com/jwcrawley/uWho https://github.com/jwcrawley/uWho) for our hacker/maker convention, Makevention. Our goal was to determine how many people showed up to the convention, as it was a free-to-attend with a suggested donation event. With a permissive license (OpenCV) attached to a GPL3 (Qt), I was able to make a real-time face scanner. My version was nice, in that it saved a one-way hash of the person's face. It is a 2 liner to save the full face instead of the nice method I did. I did this using software anyone can get. Now, imagine having this software, with mainframes combined with the ability to trawl through a user's facebook profile... Because a like allows that. And do you have a company's Facebook permission? Now they can see your whole profile, as well as your friends. Now, tell me this: what would happen if a company downloaded every face in a user's profile, checked the names of tagged faces, and ran all of them through a face recognizer like what I already made? That's why it is important.

IanCal 11y ago
I think you're coming from this already feeling that privacy is very important. The people you're trying to explain it to probably don't really care. With that in mind, here's how I'd see you explain in that way to a lay person who doesn't get why it's important: > I wrote a program called uWho(https://github.com/jwcrawley/uWho https://github.com/jwcrawley/uWho) for our hacker You're a hacker? > With a permissive license (OpenCV) attached to a GPL3 (Qt) I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about already. > My version was nice, in that it saved a one-way hash of the person's face. It is a 2 liner to save the full face instead of the nice method I did. If I was following, the only thing so far is that you were taking pictures of people and recognised faces and it was really useful, and you're trying to convince me that we should be worried about others taking pictures of us and recognising faces? > Now, tell me this: what would happen if a company downloaded every face in a user's profile, checked the names of tagged faces, and ran all of them through a face recognizer like what I already made? What would happen? The company can recognise who people are, like facebook can and I already allow and don't care about / like?

by kefka 11y ago

IanCal 11y ago

I think you're coming from this already feeling that privacy is very important. The people you're trying to explain it to probably don't really care. With that in mind, here's how I'd see you explain in that way to a lay person who doesn't get why it's important: > I wrote a program called uWho(https://github.com/jwcrawley/uWho https://github.com/jwcrawley/uWho) for our hacker You're a hacker? > With a permissive license (OpenCV) attached to a GPL3 (Qt) I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about already. > My version was nice, in that it saved a one-way hash of the person's face. It is a 2 liner to save the full face instead of the nice method I did. If I was following, the only thing so far is that you were taking pictures of people and recognised faces and it was really useful, and you're trying to convince me that we should be worried about others taking pictures of us and recognising faces? > Now, tell me this: what would happen if a company downloaded every face in a user's profile, checked the names of tagged faces, and ran all of them through a face recognizer like what I already made? What would happen? The company can recognise who people are, like facebook can and I already allow and don't care about / like?