{"id":46898,"date":"2019-06-25T08:38:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T13:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46898"},"modified":"2019-06-25T08:38:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T13:38:08","slug":"is-facial-recognition-destroying-our-right-to-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46898","title":{"rendered":"Is Facial Recognition Destroying our Right to Privacy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/armstrongeconomics101\/regulation\/is-facial-recognition-destroying-our-right-to-privacy\/\">Is Facial Recognition Destroying our Right to Privacy?\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Facial-Recognition.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Facial-Recognition-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88260\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/7d3e0d6a-87a0-11e9-a028-86cea8523dc2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Financial Times investigation<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;revealed that Microsoft had collected discreetly a facial recognition database of some 10 million images of some 100,000 people. They apparently used it for facial recognition software. When the FT began investigating, Microsoft discretely deleted the database. The public dataset, called \u2018MS Celeb,\u2019 included images of \u2018celebrities\u2019 pulled from the internet, but also contained photos of \u2018arguably private individuals,\u2019 often without their knowledge or consent, the FT found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uiDMlFycNrw?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The classic film, the Minority Report, takes place where facial recognition is just using eye scans. To become invisible, he goes through a procedure where he gets eye transplants to hide his identity. This scene shows that when walking through a store, they scan his eyes and offer advertising tailored to preferences. There is no question that this technology can become much like the movie but using facial recognition eliminating the option of just getting our eyes replaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Already there are government agencies using facial recognition to look for people walking in public places. New York Police Department\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/5\/16\/18627548\/nypd-facial-recognition-altered-faces-privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>facial recognition system<\/strong><\/a>, includes image alteration and the use of non-suspect images. They are using&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/facial-recognition-london-inaccurate-met-police-trials-a8898946.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>facial recognition<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;in Britain to look for criminals, but it is apparently wrong 96% of the time. There has even been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2019\/may\/21\/office-worker-launches-uks-first-police-facial-recognition-legal-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>lawsuits<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;filed over this intrusive approach.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/14\/us\/facial-recognition-ban-san-francisco.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>San Francisco<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;banned the police from using facial recognition. There are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facefirst.com\/industry\/law-enforcement-face-recognition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>companies<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;offering facial recognition for police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no question that facial recognition poses a significant threat to our privacy and could hamper First Amendment-protected protests and other legal activities. Anyone who exercises their right to join some protest can find their faces suddenly recorded into a secret database that pops up on any encounter with governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Facial Recognition Destroying our Right to Privacy?\u00a0 The recent&nbsp;Financial Times investigation&nbsp;revealed that Microsoft had collected discreetly a facial recognition database of some 10 million images of some 100,000 people. They apparently used it for facial recognition software. When the FT began investigating, Microsoft discretely deleted the database. The public dataset, called \u2018MS Celeb,\u2019 included [&hellip;]<\/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":[5496,290,6100,5173,652],"class_list":["post-46898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-facial-recognition","tag-microsoft","tag-minority-report","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46898","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=46898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46899,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46898\/revisions\/46899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}