facial recognition
concept · 11 episodes · JSON
Also known as: facial and body recognition technology
- Well, What Would You Do? … And I didn’t even get into who is legible either! Does the software running behind the warning system discriminate? Does it, like certain facial recognition systems, work …
- Things Could Have Been Different; LLMs as LitTech, Their Use as Response to Mass Functional Illiteracy … the private sector is happily bringing about dynamic pricing to squeeze the most profit out of you (see Wegman’s in New York adding facial recognition tech, airlines …
- Unreliable Narrators; Palate Cleansers … In 2020, the ACLU filed a complaint against Detroit police “over what it says is the first known example of a wrongful arrest caused by faulty facial recognition …
- Vestigial; Unions; Weird; and Snow Crashing - Chapter 15, part 2 … PreCheck doesn’t do facial recognition, but it does use fingerprint biometrics. Instead, the GAO has a report on the use of facial recognition at the U.S …
- A small collection of things … a) whether it’s possible to defeat the video selfie test (which apparently doesn’t use facial recognition) by using the trendy new MyHeritage deep nostalgia tool; and …
- What's the EGOT for Technology and Arts? … This is your regular reminder that facial and body recognition technology can be racist. Streetsblog reported on a study showing AVs [Autonomous vehicles] May Not Detect Darker-Skinned …
- This Is Your Regular Reminder … This is your regular reminder that despite all of the above, that despite facial recognition software misidentifying African American people more often than white people, police departments have …
- “With the word POLICE on it” … Wired’s writeup is that the system “doesn’t currently employ technology like facial recognition”. I wrote about this in s07e03 , about Linksys upgrading their mesh routers through …
- Snow Crashing … She flashes a passport to get in (no ambient facial recognition, no RFID, remember it’s barcodes and laser scanners everywhere). At home, her mom is slumped at …
- Snow Crashing … at once", and it is not 2019 when we've got semi-reliable facial recognition. Lasers and barcodes are totally in, though. I guess this fits in with …
- Not Actually A Law … This is stupendously easy facial recognition organization. Your starter for ten: buy a webcam, *don't* pay for the cloud archive service but instead tell it to send …