{"id":13561,"date":"2015-10-19T07:46:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T12:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13561"},"modified":"2015-10-19T07:46:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T12:46:03","slug":"this-is-no-longer-fiction-the-era-of-automatic-facial-recognition-and-surveillance-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13561","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThis is No Longer Fiction\u201d \u2013 The Era of Automatic Facial Recognition and Surveillance Is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThis is No Longer Fiction\u201d \u2013 The Era of Automatic Facial Recognition and Surveillance Is Here<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Whenever cryptographer and computer security specialist\u00a0Bruce\u00a0Schneier issues a warning<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0about something, I pay close attention.<\/p>\n

What follows\u00a0are excerpts from a recent piece he wrote for\u00a0Forbes<\/em>titled,\u00a0The Era of Automatic Facial Recognition and Surveillance Is Here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

ID checks were a common response to the terrorist attacks of 9\/11, but they\u2019ll soon be obsolete. You won\u2019t have to show your ID, because you\u2019ll be identified automatically. A security camera will capture your face, and it\u2019ll be matched with your name and a whole lot of other information besides. Welcome to the world of automatic facial recognition. Those who have access to databases of identified photos will have the power to identify us. Yes, it\u2019ll enable some amazing personalized services; but it\u2019ll also enable whole new levels of surveillance.\u00a0The underlying technologies are being developed today, and there are currently no rules limiting their use.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read that again: \u201cThere are no rules limiting their use.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walk by a policeman, and she will know your name, address, criminal record, and with whom you routinely are seen. The potential for discrimination is enormous, especially in low-income communities where people are routinely harassed for things like unpaid parking tickets and other minor violations.\u00a0And in a country where people are arrested for their political views, the use of this technology quickly turns into a nightmare scenario.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The critical technology here is computer face recognition. Traditionally it has been pretty poor, but it\u2019s slowly improving. A computer is now as good as a person. Already Google\u2019s algorithms can accurately match child and adult photos of the same person, and\u00a0Facebook has an algorithm that works by recognizing hair style, body shape, and body language \u2014 and works even when it can\u2019t see faces.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cThis is No Longer Fiction\u201d \u2013 The Era of Automatic Facial Recognition and Surveillance Is Here Whenever cryptographer and computer security specialist\u00a0Bruce\u00a0Schneier issues a warning\u00a0about something, I pay close attention. What follows\u00a0are excerpts from a recent piece he wrote for\u00a0Forbestitled,\u00a0The Era of Automatic Facial Recognition and Surveillance Is Here: ID checks were a common response […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9979,290,4285,6174,765,786],"class_list":["post-13561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-bruce-schneier","tag-facial-recognition","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-surveillance","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13562,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13561\/revisions\/13562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}