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These days, I'd be willing to bet that "ordinary street surveillance" uses facial recognition algorithms. It wouldn't be as effective as FB's, because FB has an
by jdormit 10y ago
These days, I'd be willing to bet that "ordinary street surveillance" uses facial recognition algorithms. It wouldn't be as effective as FB's, because FB has an enormous stream of training data coming in all the time. However, that could change if law enforcement got access to FB's data - hence this article.
- pmoriarty 10y agoFacial recognition software can only recognize you if your face is already in the database and identified as you. It's not going to magically know your identity otherwise, no matter how sophisticated it is. On the other hand, I guess it could do some inference, such as: person X seen at location Y is also seen going in to residence Z every evening and coming out of the same residence every morning for the last 6 months, therefore there's a high probability that this person's address is residence Z, and since John Doe is the only person registered as living in that residence, person X is probably John Doe, etc.
- jdormit 10y ago> Facial recognition software can only recognize you if your face is already in the database and identified as you. Right, which is exactly what would happen if law enforcement/governments could access FB's database.
- mamon 10y agoGovernment already has a huge database of photos with name tags attached: the photos you submit when you want to get a passport, drivers license, or any other form of ID.