it appears that my existing pet peeve about people conflating speech recognition and voice recognition may have to be updated to include face recognition and expression recognition.
also, i wonder how people feel about facial recognition being used to help people with gambling problems stay out of casinos at their request
its not secure - somebody can easily force you to open your phone
That might be a little thing they do on the side, but casinos are not installing facial recognition out of charitable motives to help problem gamblers.
They install the systems to protect their profits, and to profit more.
Casinos are a great example, but not of any increase in public benefit.
And, uh, do you even have to be alive, er awake, to open it? Asking for a mystery writing novelist friend.
“accurate” is too broad a word i think for the technology at this point. i think fingerprint scanners tend towards false negatives, and id imagine facial scanning tends towards false positives.
it’d be hard to trust apple at it’s own word* on false positives, and it’s probably still few years to know for sure from independent research ( less hard if it was open source i guess )
*) apple sez:
a 1 in 50,000 chance someone else’s fingerprint will falsely unlock your iPhone and a 1 in 1,000,000 chance someone else’s face will do it.
but why trust them when their income depends on the sales pitch?
Yes. Also, I believe the prevailing current interpretation of US law (but not all courts agree) is that the government cannot force someone to reveal their password (fifth amendment protection against testifying against oneself) but there is no such prohibition against forcing someone to use their finger or face to unlock a phone. Forcing someone to reveal something they know is prohibited; forcing someone to give up something they have is not prohibited.
I would have read this but its on the New York times, that seems to think i need an account to read a free web site, why do i need an account so you can track me more, bypass the rights i have as European for you to sell my data in the most shady way possible, I refuse to sign up to free accounts for free content, lets face it, they just want to customise adverts and sell my data.
there are plenty of other free sites out there where i dont need an account or to sell my 1st born child…
I agree this second objection is technically wrong, but I think it’s wrong in a way that doesn’t make much of a practical difference. Say an authoritarian government implements a face recognition system that reads your mind through your facial expression and starts up a pre-crime program to send people to prison based on it. The fact that the science behind it is junk is sort of beside the point. Find me an authoritarian leader who cared that their farming reforms actually yielded less food and caused starvation. Any system like this exists a a pretense to imprison enemies of the government. A system like this is actually more dangerous if it doesn’t work (than the sci-fi reality where it does).
“Mr. Reich!” Tate called suddenly.
Reich turned at the door.
“The screaming will continue. The Man With No Face is not a symbol of murder.”
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