Facial Recognition????

[UnFulfilledScott]

Wouldn't worry about it too much but it is something that can go wrong or get out of hand depending on how technology advances. AI at the moment is a big one and could be concerning. As far as facial recognition goes, don't worry too much about it on a day to day. It's mostly for advertising trying sell you shit.
Yes it's true if you speak around a phone or device it will listen for buzzwords and advertise you products. But for the most part, they don't care WHO you are. It's more of a 'This phone heard a word, let's play ads for that on this phone' and not 'irish jennys phone heard a word if that makes sense.'

If you have a passport or a drivers licence or any sort of picture ID. Your face is in a database anyway and scanning that picture is way easier than a camera in public scanning you.

[igor10]

Can any tecchies here tell me how concerned should we be about facial Recognition??

Think most of us have seen on twitter about the U. K. Lady who was detained in L. A. Her face isn't on her profiles but some sites require certain things to verify your identity before you can create a profile.

This morning in Boots purchasing some of my, ahem "trading expenses" I was suddenly very away of my face being recorded on the self service screen.

We are all being tracked by our phones, there's GPS in our cars, we are being recorded in every premises we enter. This never would have bothered me before because I'd think "why would anyone be interested in me" but this has got me thinking, how easy could it be to build a profile on anyone, track their routines, their spending habits etc etc.

Could our future grandchildren/great grandchildren have access to this information?

Is anything private anymore?

Someone who works for Google once told me that it's true that Google knows everything about you and that phones are "listening for frequently used words for the purpose of advertising"

I'm really not as tech savvy as I should be, but thinking about it all makes me want to move to a remote mountain in Donegal and go off grid!!!!

Its all true Jenny , we're all fecked !!!

Lets go to that remote Donegal mountain , get rid of all the devices and live off sex , home made pizza (but no pineapple allowed ) and tiramisu`

[philipkntz]

Ever notice when you are in a modern fast food place, your trying to read the menu on screen and it changes.
Sensors combining face recognition, body build, phone data and purchasing history are working to guess what you might like to eat, and what you have a weakness for. This tech is in its infancy. But a guy working on such tech, tells me that the body build scanners are tiny, and when perfected, will be almost as accurate as fingerprints, as they combine your movements and gait.
The system was originally designed to boost sales but will be a useful tool to fight shoplifting in future, as once a suspect is identified to the system, security can be auto saved and staff can be alerted as soon as the suspect enters a shop. Any shop willing to pay to sign up.
It's even possible to program doors not to open for certain people.

[philipkntz]

I am aware of a small shop where some of this tech is in learning mode. There is a body scanner over the entrance door. Linked to that there are scanners that count the number of phones that drive past, the percentage that stop in the immediate vicinity, and the percentage that enter the shop. The idea is for AI to learn body characteristics linked to phones that it sees regularly and improve accuracy.

[Averageatbest93]

Definitely something to be worried about in future I'm afraid , I was a professional gambler for a living the last 5 years or so. Soon as I won I was immediately flagged now I can't walk into any bookies in the country and get a bet on. Have a friend that works in one of the head offices who told me they have facial recognition on the doors and I get flagged immediately wherever I walk in as a maximum high risk , 'do not take bets'. The technology is definitely there just a question of how it gets implemented in the future.

[JennyIrish]

I am aware of a small shop where some of this tech is in learning mode. There is a body scanner over the entrance door. Linked to that there are scanners that count the number of phones that drive past, the percentage that stop in the immediate vicinity, and the percentage that enter the shop. The idea is for AI to learn body characteristics linked to phones that it sees regularly and improve accuracy.

WHAT is it all going to be like in 20 years?! A guy who works in AI was telling me about chips for "smart houses", your house will get you up in the morning, remind you to take your medication, notice that you havnt gone out for a walk or done some something in your usual routine (the house, of course will be connected to your phone and car)and remind you/check if you're ok, it will order groceries, repeat medications, suggest recipes based on what's in your fridge . . . I think it's all a bit mad but he rightly pointed out that it will be great to combat loneliness or assist the elderly/disabled.

I find chat GBT very handy but it does spook me, what if AI realised that the human race is destroying the planet and has already been the cause of the extinction/threatened extinction of so many species, and decides to do something about it? What if it decides let's just give the Western World 2 generations to become completely dependent on technology and then just "switch off"??

What's spooked me is the sw who was detained while on a changeover flight in the USA, her face isn't online but an adult site had sold verification photos to the US government apparently, and if you try to enter the States and they suspect you have been a sw in the last 10 years, anywhere in the world, you're deported. Some old law about threatening to corrupt marriages and break up families!!!!!

Ironic, coming from the States, right??

[philipkntz]

Oh yeah, the good old USA.
Where you can sell a gun to anyone but not a little love.

[Wolverine]

I pay in cash everywhere possible and I refuse to go along with the whatever the latest thing is. Support small independent business an fuck the corporations like Amazon.

I only use them as a catalogue or a price guide.

I don't support Ukraine. Ireland is a neutral country. The fact you this here this so rarely is because our political class , both government and opposition and the media have been bought by globalists.

Fuck the EU. They push crap on their citizens in a very undemocratic manner with a woke snobbish attitude. If ever there was a time to rule our own destiny it's now.

I won't vote for any of these dirtbags pushing net zero or mass migration.

Sorry if that was a bit of a rant but it's all connected.

[beautyaddict]

I pay in cash everywhere possible and I refuse to go along with the whatever the latest thing is. Support small independent business an fuck the corporations like Amazon.

I only use them as a catalogue or a price guide.

I don't support Ukraine. Ireland is a neutral country. The fact you this here this so rarely is because our political class , both government and opposition and the media have been bought by globalists.

Fuck the EU. They push crap on their citizens in a very undemocratic manner with a woke snobbish attitude. If ever there was a time to rule our own destiny it's now.

I won't vote for any of these dirtbags pushing net zero or mass migration.

Sorry if that was a bit of a rant but it's all connected.

Are we having a bad day ?

[liffey]

Serious answer: very.

Inside Europe we have some protections, mainly GDPR. Those protections are under constant attack, mainly from police forces and US companies who are trying to make sales. Outside of Europe, no protections really.

The most we can do is make it as difficult as possible to be tracked. Theres plenty of info available online, but it's getting more difficult and it requires a lot of discipline.

International escorts should be aware that there are companies, some you'll have heard of, some not *cough Palantir cough*, making huge $$$ selling facial recognition software to the likes of US Customs & Border Patrol. Those services explicitly include building databases of any kind of spicy worker, and they've been quite open about it. The face out days are over, unless you intend to stay in Europe.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it's better to be informed and adjust accordingly.