The Rise of Facial Recognition Should Scare Us All, by Derrick Brose

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Soon they’ll outlaw masks, so that nothing hinders their facial recognition technology. From Derrick Brose at themindunleashed.com:

It seems the sleeping masses are finally waking to the privacy dangers posed by the rise of facial recognition technology.

(TMU) — In the last ten years, our world has been completely transformed thanks to the exponential growth of digital technology. Technological advances with computer processors and the internet have quickly advanced our world into one that resembles some of the most well known sci-fi films and novels. Not a single day passes without a report on an emerging technology or new feature in an already existing product. The last ten years alone have seen rapid growth in information technology, encryption, the medical industry and 3D printing technology, just to name a few.

Unfortunately, as technology is a tool, there are equally frightening developments taking place in the first two…

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5 thoughts on “The Rise of Facial Recognition Should Scare Us All, by Derrick Brose”

  1. fingerprint recognition on touch pads
    voice recognition anywhere near a phone
    mobile phone tracking (Stats NZ and Spark are teaming up on this; the Privacy Commission sees no issue)
    Faces and numberplates are the least insidious; the other ones never get a mention
    Time we put away all our smart devices until we don’t have gangsters in control

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  2. from the article:
    “a recent test of Amazon’s facial recognition software by the American Civil Liberties Union found that it falsely identified 28 members of Congress as known criminal.”
    So, since we know of only two members of Congress who are not “known criminal” (sic), we can relax.

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