Unsettling Facts on Big Brother's Facial Recognition

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Unsettling Facts on Big Brother's Facial Recognition

The dystopian future is now.

Published 1 year ago in Ftw

Despite its status as a dystopian sci-fi staple, facial recognition software is more than a thing of fiction. Over the past few decades, facial recognition software has become ubiquitous, being used by our phones, social media, and in some very strange cases, even store mannequins.

From how scientists are using facial recognition software on lions to the way facial recognition software can be used in adult films, here are 18 strange facial recognition facts that are reading you back.

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“We now have facial recognition software for cats.”

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“The FBI's $1B facial recognition system couldn't match photos of the Boston marathon bombers to their drivers licenses. The system was only good for matching drivers license and passport photos to other drivers license and passport photos.”

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“An escaped convict was caught by facial recognition software when he tried to get a new license under a false name.”

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“Nikon was accused of racist face-detection software - when Asian faces were photographed, a message would pop up on the camera screen asking, ‘Did someone blink?’”

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“African company Lion Guardians uses facial recognition to monitor 1000+ Lions' mating, feeding and changes to population dynamics caused by human expansion among other things.”

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“In 2013, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) sent a 13-in robotic crew member to the ISS capable of voice and speech recognition, natural language processing, speech synthesis and telecommunications, as well as facial recognition and video recording.

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“The Madison Square Garden company uses facial recognition to keep out enemy lawyers.”

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“China has 170 million surveillance cameras. Some tourist sites in Beijing are using facial recognition to limit the amount of toilet paper that each person can take.”

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“Half of American adults are in a law enforcement face recognition network. Its use is almost completely unregulated, as most agencies don’t even require suspicion of criminal activity before using the database for identification.”

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“The facial recognition algorithms in use by facebook outperforms those in use by the FBI.”

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“Using facial recognition software, an airport's vending machine dispensed free coffee for anyone who yawned.”

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“There are hairstyles to trick camera facial recognition algorithms.

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“Some malls in Canada are using facial recognition technology in their directories to track and identify shoppers without notification.”

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Facial recognition software has been used to create look-alike adult content

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“Taylor Swift used facial recognition at a concert in 2018 to identify known stalkers. The photos were taken at a rehearsal clip photo booth and transmitted to s control center for processing, without the fans knowledge.”

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“Chinese police now use sunglasses that have built in facial recognition.”

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“Stanford University developed Artificial Intelligence which can guess if a person is gay, based on a photo of their face, with 91% accuracy on dating sites.”