And so it begins. Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently combined Facebook profile photos and PittPatt in biometric software to identify supposedly anonymous photographs with the dating site. Now they plan to demo a Smartphone app that identifies a person identifying in cloud-based database and image recognition software. What's next?
This is an issue that I've been thinking about for a while. Facial recognition through cloud computing is a major plot point in my novel invisible armies, which I wrote about seven years ago. When I got mugged in Mexico a few years ago, I immediately started, musing about the advantages of the surveillance society. It is on this path, make no mistake — if it is not here today.
Cameras everywhere already have. I don't just mean almost 5 million closed-circuit monitoring, Great Britain, or a similar system, planned for New York: I mean the world to hundreds of millions of phone cameras, all of whom soon will automatically download each image they take to cloud repositories. Charles time-lapse Photography were available, proposed, and I agree that the police will soon be always on camera in the line of duty, for legal reasons. Meanwhile, Moore's law keeps ticking along nicely, making facial recognition software, ever faster, more powerful and more affordable; camera get all better, cheaper and more innocuous, and drones start taking our sky, as well as Afghanistan. add it all upand we will spend most of our lives in the field of view camera that can and will be determined by us before our eyes in near-real.
Comment on my recent proposal plus Google said: "when I go out in public, nobody knows my name if I tell them. If one were to demand that this change that everyone had to wear an identity with the key facts at all, one will be condemned as totalitarian. "well, soon enough that pretty much happens when — at least in France, where he was covering in public places is banned earlier this year and possibly in Australia and the UK too. There will be no sense to disable Facebook's auto tagging: one incorrectly tagged picture you anywhere on the Internet is all you need to cross-reference all other snapshots of you ever.
I don't want to be paranoid conspiracy theorist. Most of this still happens without any governmental initiatives or ban happy crowd. Death public anonymity is a natural side effect of improving and increasingly ubiquitous technology. That is why the current brouhaha about "real names" on Google plus and their apparent persistence to dig in China even after realizing they are in the hole is actually important. Pseudonymity and anonymity soon enough there will be only online; in the real world ban plastic surgery, they will have more or less disappeared.
This is bad news for all. Pseudonymity shelter informants, dissidents and vulnerable along with trolls. Everyone assumes that real names talk more politely, but I'm not so sure. Here at TechCrunch, we bend over backwards using the Facebook comment partly for this reason; and it worked at first; but —
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arishahdadi @@ arishahdadiARI Shahdadi it's amazing how the TC comments have fully delegated to the pit they were before, with the exception of real names, attached from FB.
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"There are many reasons why individuals may wish to use the name, than they were born with," says EFF. more than my name is me many mentions. Danah Boyd said: "people who most strongly rely on the aliases in the online space are the ones who are most marginalized power systems." Ivor Tossell argues, "it's in our system of Government, that staff must remain neutral, and never, never criticize their elected bosses in public places ... They are only one of the groups for whom the Internet offers an anonymous exit. For all anonymous weasel in a political forum is considerate citizen with proper shelter to be expressed. "
But this is my favorite quote: "using alias was one of the big advantages of the Internet, because it allowed people to express their views freely — they may be in physical danger, need help, or condition, they do not want people to know," believe it or not, according to the Google Privacy Directory back in February. Unknown, anonymously identified: "we believe all three modes have a house in Google". Boy a lot can change in six months, eh?
Image Credit: Jesus Ruiz Fuentes, Artelista.
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