#facial scanning

[tearsofrefugees]

ICE Is Now Wandering the Streets, Scanning People's Faces to Check If They're Citizens

Federal immigration officers are busting out their phones to scan people's faces and confirm their residency.

[cbaloga]

🚨 They’re Scanning Your Face — Even When You Don’t Know It 👁️


🚨 They’re Scanning Your Face — Even When You Don’t Know It 👁️

🚨 They’re Scanning Your Face — Even When You Don’t Know It 👁️

[losttoy]

The government is steadily increasing the use of facial or biometric scanning at the nation's airports. Airlines say it can speed the boarding process, but critics say the scans aren't always accurate and there are privacy concerns.

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/15/594062896/critics-concerned-about-privacy-issues-as-biometric-scanning-increases

[deanlawrencekowalski]

Facial Scanning Now Arriving At U.S. Airports | NPR Airlines say taking a picture of your face speeds boarding, and Homeland Security says it stops fraud. But critics worry about privacy and bias. Source: Facial Scanning Now Arriving At U.S. Airports

[odditycentrall]

Facial Scanners Installed in Beijing Public Toilets to Combat Toilet Paper Theft

http://www.odditycentral.com/funny/facial-scanners-installed-in-beijing-public-toilets-to-combat-toilet-paper-theft.html

[thisisdigitales-blog]

Digitales Top Trends of 2015

Hello and welcome to a one- off special feature article, from Digitales to you, on what we think will be hot in 2016.

Entertainment with substance Programmes such as Serial and Making a Murderer have engaged audiences throughout last year, demonstrating the public appetite for stories with substance. Real life, cause related content has managed to capture the attention and create positive real-life activity – the main theme being injustice, righting wrongs. The differentiator between this real life crime genre format is that it motivates people in a way that gruesome images from far away countries cannot; people have developed a rapport and understanding of the cause that has made them engaged and impassioned.

Could this format be translated to other genres?

Skill & Quality

In contrast to many others, we believe that 2016 is going to lead to an increase in skill and quality. Think less grainy camera, more Go Pro – yes enabling amateurs, but with so many enablers available (YouTube tutorials, low priced items) excuses for poor performance are running out. Having a go is no longer good enough, people are looking to become skilled. Happiness gurus are forever telling people to develop skills that they enjoy, rather than what looks good on a CV, and becoming skilled gives a sense of purpose and achievement.

Think learning a language for real – the awkward ‘bonjour’ is becoming less endearing.  

Everything for a reason

There are so many apps out there and so little memory space/battery longevity on phones nowadays – it makes sense to suggest that 2016 is the time that all of those nice, but pointless apps disappear from our lives. A New Year cull. 

The internet of things is allowing better access to everyday items, giving us apps with functions which could actually improve your quality of life (at least less wrinkles from worrying about whether you left the iron on). So remove your Simpsons game and install an app which lets you brew coffee from your bed.

Augmented (but not quite virtual) reality

Last year augmented reality was seen at Google, Microsoft as well as a new Garmin’s Varia Vision which aims to help cyclists. The technology is slowly entering mainstream use and has been seen at events (see our Chanel Mademoiselle Prive app post) as well as aiding car maintenance. 

This year it is being used to guide self-driving cars, however we feel that it’s potential to aid daily living is yet to be fully realised. 

Maybe augmented reality is the future for learning – farewell to the YouTube tutorial?

Surveillance

While hit TV shows such as Hunted have brought the UK surveillance culture to the forefront of the public consciousness, we are putting more and more cameras within and around our homes. From watching what the dog is up to when we are at work, facial scanning for security, watching our street and garden – we are watching ourselves and our surroundings more than ever. We have been watching the ISS, kitten cam and Canadian bears for years – and now, thanks to 360 degree video, we can choose exactly what we want to surveil – see Crossrail.

We predict you will spend your 2016 watching eggs hatch in 360 degrees, tracking those chicks as they grow into chickens - and then eventually meet their demise… and then getting too attached and petitioning for said chickens to be saved. Documentary to follow.

[end-times-revelation-blog]

Facial Scanning Is Making Gains in Serveillance

   Prophecy Sign: Revelation 13 16-17 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Headline: Facial Scanning Is Making Gains in Serveillance

“The federal government is making progress on developing a surveillance system that would pair computers with video cameras to scan crowds and automatically identify people by their faces… The Department of Homeland Security tested a crowd-scanning project called the Biometric Optical Surveillance System —”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/us/facial-scanning-is-making-gains-in-surveillance.html?partner=MYWAY&ei=5065&_r=2&

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[webprogrammers]

Biometric Methods: Facial Scanning

Facial scanning uses cameras and image analysis software that looks at areas of the human face that change just a little during the course of life and are not simply alterable, such as the upper outline of the eye sockets and the shape of the cheekbones. Researchers at MIT developed a series of about 125 grayscale images called eigenfaces from which features can be united to differentiate any given face. The template resulting from a scan can be compared with the one on file for the claimed identity, and coefficients expressing the level of similarity are calculated. Variance above a specified level results in the person being rejected. Facial scanning is often viewed as less invasive than the use of fingerprints, and it can also be applied to surveillance images.