Facial Recognition Systems Quickly Becoming Embedded In Our Everyday Lives
We are increasingly beginning to see facial recognition cameras unveiled at different airports and other public venues.
The US Customs and Border Protection program consists of a biometric face-matching system that is being used at various departure gates, located in over a dozen different airports in the country.
By 2021, they expect to be scanning over 90 percent of all outbound international travelers.
Both Amazon and Microsoft have called for more oversight of facial recognition technology, and critics frequently point out that facial recognition systems aren't immune to making mistakes and it isn't prone to sabotage. And when mistakes are made they can potentially ruin your life.
There are many individuals working in this industry who have frequently expressed their concerns about the potential for misuse of this technology.
The public hasn't been consulted, no serious discussion has been had, while these systems have been increasingly adopted and placed at different venues in our communities.
Some experts have estimated that it might be less than a decade before travelers will be able to go to the airport and get on a plane, without having to open their passport, because of the facial recognition security that will increasingly be used.
You can already find faces being scanned in a growing number of airports, along with public and private venues.
Various surveys have indicated that most of the public is ready and willing to submit to the new level of biometric security, saying that they'd be willing to use it if confronted with the opportunity. But while travelers are being told that it will make things more convenient, that could come at a high price. And the promise of speeding up boarding times has also been questioned, it could achieve the opposite in further delaying boarding times and costing airports millions of dollars, while inconveniencing many.
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The most important hole in facial recognition is that
we do not have a database of faces of bad guys.
A police officer takes your ID and goes over to the
Great Computer Alter and sayeths
"Oh Great Computer please telleth me if I may busteth this peon."
That database doesn't really have bad guys in it. Instead it is:
And most people out on parole, where in for smoking cannabis.
This people are SOOOOO important, that we must set up cameras everywhere to possibly find one of these.
Further, everyone has a double out there.
Don't get taken to jail for looking like someone.
Not that it hasn't happened ... thrice to one guy.
Good point. Laws are not designed to combat criminality; it is there to subdue law abiding citizens. Criminals are criminals because they do not respect the rules or procedures so this only makes our lives worse.
While this is indeed very concerning, what I am not hearing is any discussion of whether this can even be prevented. The fact is that this technology, and many others that enable surveillance, are inevitable. Privacy as it has been in the past simply cannot exist anymore.
The fact of this technology, and all surveillance technology, is that we individuals need to adopt it. Open source facial recognition technology will allow us to recognize pedophiles trying to get near our children, burglars casing our homes, and covert government agents conducting false flag terrorist attacks and other nefarious shenanigans - increasing our power to defend ourselves from every kind of crime.
As technology continues to advance, the rate of adoption by individuals continues to increase. The more advanced the technology the faster it is widely adopted. Open source science, hardware, and democratic means of effecting policies are being downplayed and hindered in desperate attempts to stave off as long as possible huge transfers of power to individuals - freedom - that decentralized technology makes inevitable.
This technology has huge potential to prevent government corruption, covert terror, and every kind of crime that impacts free people if it is opened to the public. Centralized power will resist this to the limits of their abilities, but it is essential that we prepare open source software apps for our phones that can take advantage of the leaks that are inevitably going to come out, when centralized databases are released by dissidents like Snowden.
When those facial recognition databases are no longer under control of governments and other gangs that will conceal their own corrupt agents, we will gain immense power over them. We can't stop this technological advance, so there's no point in trying. We can increase our freedom by adopting it, the data now being hoarded by overlords will leak, and we should be prepared to take advantage of those leaks now, by creating publicly auditable decentralized blockchains to store identity data which will make covert operations by government funded terrorist and agents almost impossible.
Thanks!
1984 was a warning for us.
such a good book
amazing and scary at the same time.
free range prisons are fun :) lol