Tag: facial recognition
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#MorningMonarchy: November 12, 2019
Light commands, robot plants and drug drones + this day in history w/the exploding whale incident and our song of the day by Night Drive on your Morning Monarchy for November 12, 2019.
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#MorningMonarchy: July 24, 2018
Stifling competition, secretly livestreaming and hijacking SIMs + this day in history w/the kitchen debate and our song of the day by Stickybuds on your Morning Monarchy for July 24, 2018.
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#MorningMonarchy: April 24, 2018
Remote mind control, facial recognition tests and space miner trillionaires + this day in history w/Hubble Space Telescope launch and our song of the day by Girl Talk on your Morning Monarchy for April 24, 2018.
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#MorningMonarchy: November 28, 2017
Celestial fireballs, location services and robot families + this day in history w/the murder of Jeffrey Dahmer and our song of the day by Lil Peep on your Morning Monarchy for November 28, 2017.
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#MorningMonarchy: November 14, 2017
International business marijuana, banning killer robots and breaking your FaceID + this day in history w/the Marshall University plane crash and our song of the day by Gorillaz on your Morning Monarchy for November 14, 2017.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Finger Photos, Robot Uprising, #Inauguration Madness (Audio)
This week on the New World Next Week: Researchers warn of fingerprint theft from peace sign photos; more human workers made redundant by AI; and madness swirls around the inauguration spectacle in Washington DC.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: World Braces for #Inauguration Madness (Video)
This week on the New World Next Week: Researchers warn of fingerprint theft from peace sign photos; more human workers made redundant by AI; and madness swirls around the inauguration spectacle in Washington DC.
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Facial recognition up to 30% more accurate now than in 2010
from biometricupdate.com: Facial recognition algorithms are up to 30 percent more accurate than they were in 2010, according to a recent NIST report. The report by Patrick Grother and Mei Ngan, Performance of Face Identification Algorithms, includes results from algorithms submitted by 16 organizations. Performance was defined by recognition accuracy, as well as the time…
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Anti-surveillance mask lets you pass as someone else
from cnet.com: Uncomfortable with surveillance cameras? “Identity replacement tech” in the form of the Personal Surveillance Identity Prosthetic gives you a whole new face. If the world starts looking like a scene from “Matrix 3” where everyone has Agent Smith’s face, you can thank Leo Selvaggio. His rubber mask aimed at foiling surveillance cameras features…
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Concerns over privacy raised in wake of Osaka facial recognition experiment
from apperspective.net: Privacy concerns have been raised over an upcoming surveillance project slated to take place at the Osaka Station. A 2-year experiment that involves monitoring the movements of people arriving at the Osaka train station through a facial recognition system. The test will be conducted by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology,…
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Tri-City hockey crowds to be taped for U.S. security research
from tri-cityherald.com: Hockey fans at the season opener of the Tri-City Americans will have a chance to help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security improve its facial recognition capabilities. Video will be taped by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory at the Sept. 21 game in a portion of the Toyota Center in Kennewick. It is planned…
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#FBI sued over secretive facial recognition program
from RT.com: Soon the FBI will be done building a database containing the photographs, fingerprints and other biometric data for millions of Americans, but the agency has been far from forthcoming with the details. A new lawsuit filed this week aims to change that. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit digital rights group based out…
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The Great American Dragnet: Over 200 Million People Are in the Facial Recognition Database
from BlacklistedNews.com: You are probably participating in the facial recognition database whether you want to or not. Most likely, your visage is there to be easily identified, without your consent, even if you’ve never committed a crime. Using the vague criteria of “law enforcement purposes”, the United States has more than 200 million Americans filed…