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How long until this will be used in high profile crimes? When wearing a balaclava your face is obscured on security camera footage, this will allow criminals to

How long until this will be used in high profile crimes? When wearing a balaclava your face is obscured on security camera footage, this will allow criminals to lead law enforcement down the wrong path and frustrate their efforts by having them look for a person that does not exist.

jansan 6y ago
This happened before: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/armed-robber-wore-latex-mask-859242 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/armed-robber-wore-late... Also, I would not call those Japanese masks "hyper realistic", unless the defintition of "realistic" has changed recently. There are better, much more realistic masks out there.
- runarb 6y ago
  Another example: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2192115/Robbers-disguised-white-cops-caught--send-polite-thank-letter-company-unbelievable-latex-masks.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2192115/Robbers-dis...
  - iggldiggl 6y ago
    And already a plot point in those Fantômas movies from the 60s with Jean Marais and Louis de Funès.
FerretFred 6y ago
UK reader here .. sign me up for a Priti Patel mask, STAT!
- toyg 6y ago
  Johnson would work even better, considering his “distinctive” looks.
  - fakedang 6y ago
    Dibs on haunted pencil Reese-Morgan's face.
hilbert42 6y ago
Perhaps that's the unfortunate penalty for allowing the unregulated introduction of facial recognition technology everywhere and anywhere without a proper debate. Simply violating people's privacy just because technology has enabled the practice isn't acceptable. Remember, no one first asked any of us for our permission to be tracked by our physical features just for walking down the street and going about our daily business as we've always done, nevertheless this all-pervasive technology was introduced without our permission nor with any public debate. I posted this comment several hours ago in a duplicate of this story. Having now had time to think about it, I seriously believe we're just beginning to see the beginnings of a new war on privacy and that this new technology has now given ordinary people the means of fighting back. If this war escalates because of criminals/bad actors then don't blame us—we didn't start it: "Perhaps we'll all be wearing them sooner than we think out of necessity to counter facial recognition. (It's just occurred to me that a blank conformal OLED version of the mask would be the ultimate form — one's face could dynamically change on-the-fly whilst one's out and about. That would give all-pervasive surveillance systems a decent run for their money.) ;-)"
- hilbert42 6y ago
  BTW, if it's immediately obvious to me that the next development in this technology will be for mask wearers to dynamically load new randomly generated faces (and even facial shapes and feature types) at whim, then I'm damn sure others will already be working on the problem of actually developing the technology. It seems to me that the cat's now out of the bag thanks to unfettered/unregulated access to facial recognition by all and sundry.
jobigoud 6y ago
> a person that does not exist. They'll run it through face recognition and find the original person that provided their face data and arrest them. Plot twist, a criminal will flood the market with masks of their own face to get plausible deniability for the actual crime.

jansan 6y ago

This happened before: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/armed-robber-wore-latex-mask-859242 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/armed-robber-wore-late... Also, I would not call those Japanese masks "hyper realistic", unless the defintition of "realistic" has changed recently. There are better, much more realistic masks out there.

runarb 6y ago
Another example: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2192115/Robbers-disguised-white-cops-caught--send-polite-thank-letter-company-unbelievable-latex-masks.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2192115/Robbers-dis...
- iggldiggl 6y ago
  And already a plot point in those Fantômas movies from the 60s with Jean Marais and Louis de Funès.

FerretFred 6y ago

UK reader here .. sign me up for a Priti Patel mask, STAT!

toyg 6y ago
Johnson would work even better, considering his “distinctive” looks.
- fakedang 6y ago
  Dibs on haunted pencil Reese-Morgan's face.

hilbert42 6y ago

Perhaps that's the unfortunate penalty for allowing the unregulated introduction of facial recognition technology everywhere and anywhere without a proper debate. Simply violating people's privacy just because technology has enabled the practice isn't acceptable. Remember, no one first asked any of us for our permission to be tracked by our physical features just for walking down the street and going about our daily business as we've always done, nevertheless this all-pervasive technology was introduced without our permission nor with any public debate. I posted this comment several hours ago in a duplicate of this story. Having now had time to think about it, I seriously believe we're just beginning to see the beginnings of a new war on privacy and that this new technology has now given ordinary people the means of fighting back. If this war escalates because of criminals/bad actors then don't blame us—we didn't start it: "Perhaps we'll all be wearing them sooner than we think out of necessity to counter facial recognition. (It's just occurred to me that a blank conformal OLED version of the mask would be the ultimate form — one's face could dynamically change on-the-fly whilst one's out and about. That would give all-pervasive surveillance systems a decent run for their money.) ;-)"

hilbert42 6y ago
BTW, if it's immediately obvious to me that the next development in this technology will be for mask wearers to dynamically load new randomly generated faces (and even facial shapes and feature types) at whim, then I'm damn sure others will already be working on the problem of actually developing the technology. It seems to me that the cat's now out of the bag thanks to unfettered/unregulated access to facial recognition by all and sundry.

jobigoud 6y ago

> a person that does not exist. They'll run it through face recognition and find the original person that provided their face data and arrest them. Plot twist, a criminal will flood the market with masks of their own face to get plausible deniability for the actual crime.