Facial recognition: is the technology taking away your identity?
Facial recognition: is the technology taking away your identity?
Facial recognition is one of the latest rages in the security business. In fact, many claim that it can be a significant tool in stopping identity theft. However, in an ironic twist, some critics are claiming that facial technology actually causes more harm than good toward our identities.
This week I want you to read the article and give the identity issues that the article is concerned about and explain how the article answers the question it poses in the title. (minimum 50 words)
ALSO...cut and paste two statements from the article that you thought were interesting
Due by Sunday 1/25
The technology is geting more batter than we though, the Facial recognition is the big step for the high technology and A human being will get the answer correct 97.53% of the time; Facebook's new technology scores an impressive 97.25%. Not thing perfect in the world that is how the world balance,and the facial recognition advantage increasing accuracy to recognize the crime people face and geting imformation about that person criminal information. The disavantage is people will lose a lot of privacy personal identity and computer hacker will get the changce to use that as a tools to find out the person imformation and hack the bank account to steal money from that person.
ReplyDelete"The dream is for governments to be able to set up networked cameras in public locations, capable of constantly searching through the faces of people who are photographed," says Xiaoou Tang, professor in the department of information engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and one of the world's leading experts in facial recognition. "Once this is done, the images can then be matched to a database looking for suspects or potential terrorists, so that [pre-emptive] arrests can be made."
Putting aside the question of whether or not brands do "deserve" to know anything and everything about their customers, companies such as OptimEyes and Emotient are far from the creepiest application of facial recognition. In the US, the startup SceneTap (previously known as BarTabbers) has installed cameras in more than 400 bars; they use facial recognition to help bar-hoppers decide which locations to visit on a night out. SceneTap offers real-time information on everything from gender ratios to the average age of patrons. A patent filed by the company even suggests plans to link identified people with their social networking profiles to determine "relationship status, intelligence, education and income".
"Since the ability to recognise faces has long been a benchmark for artificial intelligence"
ReplyDelete"Whether a database concerns criminal suspects or first-class travellers, they are still designed to sort us into categorical groups."
"And since facial recognition takes place in public spaces, it is not even necessary for the person surveilled actively to "opt in" to the service."
This article is about how facial recognition is coming into play with technology. I think that this really shouldn't happen in personal devices and social media but I believe it would be beneficial to have it in certain public places that we would not know about so that people who need to be tagged and put in jail can be apprehended. Having them on social media and in our devices does not help us we should stick to traditional passwords and fingerprints with personal things that belong to the public. The public could still use facial recognition for wrong and people who have knowledge on coding and have the ability to hack could hack these things and put them to their own use (This is not watchdogs).
The article gives identity issues on whether or not the facial recognition is right.In the the article they give some important pros and cons of the technology.One of the pros of this technology is that it will be able to recognize the faces of terrorist and suspects of criminals and the cons is that people might feel they lost their privacy and will have people thinking that their identity and privacy has been taken away from them.The article found ways to give the positives of this modern technology which means they agree that it it not taking away your identity but rather trying to protect you."Individual identification is always tied to social classification. It's always there for some specific purpose, and that's usually to determine someone's level of access or privilege. The ethical questions in facial recognition relate to those social hierarchies and how they're established."Ultimately we need to ask ourselves whether a world of ubiquitous automated identification is really one that we want to build".We should also ask ourselves if this is for the best because there are a lot of people in this world that care less about others and it will not bother seeing the other hurt in anyway.
ReplyDeleteThe question is about facial recognition and if it's right or not
ReplyDeleteThe paragraph that answered the question was the one with the senator saying that it's wrong to use facial recognition because people might not know you're recognizing them and they can't do anything about it and if they used to be a criminal what if they changed... So I agree with the senator saying it's wrong
Unlike other biometric identifiers such as iris scans and fingerprints, facial recognition is designed to operate at a distance, without the knowledge or consent of the person being identified,"
"Individuals cannot reasonably prevent themselves from being identified by cameras that could be anywhere – on a lamp post, attached to an unmanned aerial vehicle or, now, integrated into the eyewear of a stranger."
"So what if you identify the wrong person by accident when you're targeting an ad? It's not that big a deal. It happens all the time in other forms of advertising."
ReplyDelete"The RMV was unsympathetic, claiming it was the accused individual's "burden" to clear their name in the event of any mistakes, arguing that the pros of protecting the public outweighed the inconvenience to the wrongly targeted few".
I agree with the senator, it is wrong to use facial recognition to identify someone. Facial recognition can become chaotic because if you're trying to point someone out but they're around a group of people, it can cause confusion real quickly as to who you're really pointing out. Some people might have a very bad past but people change and if you recognize someone for what they use to be instead of what they are now, it can become a huge mess.
"Although the use of facial recognition tools is still relatively new in the consumer sector, that is where much of the visible innovation will take place over the coming years."
ReplyDelete"Knowing about facial recognition, and how it is used by both governments and companies, is key to helping us face the future."
This article is talking about the pros and cons of facial recognition. Many people like the idea of facial recognition, especially the government. It helps find a lot of people they need to find. I think that facial recognition can be a good thing if people use it for the right things. so it is all in the hands of the user and what they do with it. I'm usually for the idea of facial recognition if you are using it the right way.
"Since the ability to recognise faces has long been a benchmark for artificial intelligence"
ReplyDelete"Knowing about facial recognition, and how it is used by both governments and companies, is key to helping us face the future."
The article talks alot about facial recognintion, which can be have many pros and cons about it. I agree with the senator saying that it's wrong to use facial recognition to identify someone. I think the main con about it is people will lose alot of privacy and the technology will never be 100% correct. The pros allow the government to identify criminals and stop them ahead of time.
"Putting aside the question of whether or not brands do 'deserve' to know anything and everything about their customers, companies such as OptimEyes and Emotient are far from the creepiest application of facial recognition." I feel that this can be taken too far and get to the point were all a person has to do is hack into a company like Walmart and see what you purchased and find out where you live. People who regularly purchase high-priced items would be targeted by criminals for break-ins.
ReplyDelete"Although the use of facial recognition tools is still relatively new in the consumer sector, that is where much of the visible innovation will take place over the coming years." With all the security issues that have happened recently, there would have to been a larger and more complex cyber lock on the information that these systems access.
"One of the most poignant images that came out of 11 September "
ReplyDelete"It's important to understand the scale of change that is under way, because it is going to dictate what happens."
this articles talks about facial recognition and the pros and cons that come with this type of technology. the pros about this is that we can spot out criminals in robberies, murders, hijacks, etc. but also this comes with a few cons: it makes people loose a lot of privacy (but they should know that since they're being recorded) but i think its good to have this type of technology. i have it in my home for say, i have cameras all on the outside of my house for security purposes.
this article talks about the pros and cons of facial recognition which are we can spot criminals and robbers and all the other bad guys but its cons are it takes away our privacy it looks like it could be good but it will cause way to many problems
ReplyDeleteFirst off why is the article so long ? This article was about facial recognition and the good and the bad that comes with this technology. People will loose privacy with this new technology and i think the senator was right when he said it was wrong. Some people can take this the wrong way and take it to a whole other level."Knowing about facial recognition, and how it is used by both governments and companies, is key to helping us face the future." "Since the ability to recognise faces has long been a benchmark for artificial intelligence"
ReplyDelete"Since the ability to recognize faces has long been a benchmark for artificial intelligence, developments such as Facebook's "DeepFace" technology (yes, that's what it called it) raise big questions about the power of today's facial recognition tools and what these mean for the future."
ReplyDelete"Knowing about facial recognition, and how it is used by both governments and companies, is key to helping us face the future."
This article is basically talking about facial recognition and what can come out of it, good or bad. I think that it'll be a good thing because it can't help with catching criminals and stuff like that. I can think of more good things than bad because the only bad thing about this would be loss of privacy. This feature of technology would be really good to use in the future.
"Individuals cannot reasonably prevent themselves from being identified by cameras that could be anywhere – on a lamp post, attached to an unmanned aerial vehicle or, now, integrated into the eyewear of a stranger."
ReplyDelete"One of the things that troubles me is the idea that machines don't have bias,"
The topic of facial recognition is positive and negative. It is positive because it might give security or whoever a greater chance of stopping crime and solving problems. It is negative because people will not always know that they are being closely monitored or that others know what is going on with them. Facial recognition has pros and cons but they are even with each other. Although it will give more information about people than it should, i don't think it would cause much harm.
I think that facial recignition is good amd bad honestly. Its has many benifits like it could help solve crimes and things like that. But i think it could also have negative views also like maybe some people dont wanna constantly be monitored like that and may feel like they are being "watched". But i think there could be alot of good things to come from it!
ReplyDeleteThis article was rather interesting. There was a lot of information packed into this article. There as so many different companies, websites and organizations interested in facial recognition. There are definitely pros and cons of this technology. Facial recognition could catch criminals and ultimately save lives. It could also make certain procedures a bit easier and a bit faster but overall I am against the new technology of facial recognition. I believe that it will begin to go too far and begin to invade the privacy of people. The difference with this technology and others is mainly the fact/the issue of choice. We choose to be on most of the social media cites we are on and we choose to "selfies" and post information about ourselves. With facial recognition, most of our business and information can be accessed without our permission an d to no fault of our own. "Unlike other biometric identifiers such as iris scans and fingerprints, facial recognition is designed to operate at a distance, without the knowledge or consent of the person being identified"
ReplyDelete"Individuals cannot reasonably prevent themselves from being identified by cameras that could be anywhere – on a lamp post, attached to an unmanned aerial vehicle or, now, integrated into the eyewear of a stranger."
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ReplyDelete1) In the US, the startup SceneTap (previously known as BarTabbers) has installed cameras in more than 400 bars... This quote bothers me because it says that they have a whole bunch of cameras every where looking at us, identifying who we are. And in my opinion, it doesn't give us any kind of privacy any more. 2)And since facial recognition takes place in public spaces, it is not even necessary for the person surveilled actively to "opt in" to the service. And this I say is a mistake in some things. Im not saying that it is bad, but Im saying that what if some hacker gets into the system, then he could find out anyone he wants to, and find out all their information, and ect.
ReplyDeletei think that a program such as this could be useful but also could be used inappropriately. It could be useful by catching the faces of bad or help people get into their locked accounts if they have forgotten there password. But there are a few flaws on how this could be inappropriate, people could take advantage of the system to steal identidies and faces or could be an invasion of provacy so i dont think we need this type of program on the market. "Individuals cannot reasonably prevent themselves from being identified by cameras that could be anywhere – on a lamp post, attached to an unmanned aerial vehicle or, now, integrated into the eyewear of a stranger."
ReplyDeleteI actually find this article quite enlightening. I didnt know that they (the government) had this type of technology. This article pointed out a few pros and cons of facial recognition and i found them frightening. How they can spy on you wherever you go but it can be used to our advantage in certain crimes such as hijacks, murder, and thefts. But i heard the governments always watching you know with NSA.
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