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The panopticon is coming and its accuracy will improve. Facial recognition by itself may not improve much, but when paired with other information it's going to
by fencepost 7y ago
The panopticon is coming and its accuracy will improve. Facial recognition by itself may not improve much, but when paired with other information it's going to skyrocket in accuracy, and I suspect it'll happen in China first if it hasn't already. That other information will include things like the possible identities of other people in the same vicinity that have known associations, locations pulled from recognized devices, other fuzzy identifications along travel routes, gait analysis, matching facial recognitions with clothing identification to improve tracking, etc. None of the individual parts are that difficult, they just result in a massive amount of fuzzy data to be mined and computers can be very good at that mining.
Another factor is that this may be challenging when starting from a facial recognition point in a crowd and trying to identify a person, but what if you're starting from a list of "the usual suspects" who've been thoroughly photographed, had gait analysis done and had their social networks mapped? What if you start from "do we see any sign that any of these 50k individuals are in the crowd?"
- heavenlyblue 7y agoWhat if you’re breaking the privacy laws doing so? Marijuana is illegal, so human tracking should be illegal too.
- bradknowles 7y agoWhat privacy laws? You thought you ever had privacy?
- heavenlyblue 7y agoBut I did before. Now you’re just inventing new ways of policing... - yet policing what, exactly? The crime levels are at the lowest points in the civilised countries.
- stordoff 7y ago> Marijuana is illegal, so human tracking should be illegal too. I'm not sure I really see the connection here.
- heavenlyblue 7y agoMarijuana is outlawed due to social conservatism. Privacy must be preserved for the same reason since we still haven’t yet lived without privacy for long enough to see the consequences.
- rocky1138 7y agoCannabis ain't illegal where I live. Come visit and we'll get blazed
- packet_nerd 7y agoUniquely identifying wifi MAC addresses and Bluetooth IDs can usually be passively picked up from phones. Correlate those with the other fuzzy identifiers you mentioned for even better and more versatile tracking. I'm curious, are any MAC-like IDs broadcast plain-text as part of normal cell phone connections that could be passively sniffed? I must have the wrong keywords, but don't seem to be able to find anything on this.
- gruez 7y ago>I'm curious, are any MAC-like IDs broadcast plain-text as part of normal cell phone connections that could be passively sniffed IMEI/IMSI.