3 ms·
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20563430 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20563430 > Today, you are not you, you are your data, a p
by mcny 7y ago
Previously on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20563430 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20563430
> Today, you are not you, you are your data, a persona. And you are somehow responsible for it or anything that casts a similar shadow.
I think it is a similar case here. The main problem won't be that my face is out there. The problem will be that the police will stop you or stop by at your house to "just have a chat" because some algorithm matched your face to some input somewhere with a 90% confidence.
By the way, who owns the photographs and how do the departments have authority to share them with some company? If they can share with with that company, why not make the data public and let everyone have access to it? I'd like to play with the data as well.
- johnday 7y agoDo you think there's more chance of this happening, versus Barbara down the shops being shown a photograph and saying "oh yes, that looks just like mcny from two doors down"?
- pavel_lishin 7y agoI'm not mcny, but yes, of course. It'll be massively cheaper to just yank the confidence slider down until results pop out, vs. sending meatbags walking around an area, showing photographs to neighbors.