• Facial Recognition Software Takes One Glance at You and Brings Up Your Facebook Profile
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[QUOTE]Worried about privacy on the Internet? It may be even worse than you thought — with rapidly improving face recognition technology, your automatically tagged Facebook pictures could help a stranger, or the authorities, quickly identify you on the street. A simple system that compares Facebook pictures and webcam snapshots can make a positive match after less than three seconds, according to Carnegie Mellon University researchers. Alessandro Acquisti and colleagues presented their findings at the Black Hat computer security conference in Las Vegas. “A stranger could know your last tweet just by looking at you,” Acquisti told CNET’s privacy blog. The system was able to correlate Facebook profile pictures to webcam shots, and to otherwise anonymous photos on a dating website. The Facebook-webcam system identified about 31 percent of users, and only 10 percent of the dating site users, but the message was clear — anonymity is becoming harder and harder to maintain. This can be problematic for several reasons, not the least of which is the damage that can be done by mistaken identity. Computer systems that put the wrong name to a face can cause headaches or worse. But in simpler terms, do average Facebook users really want random people to find out their e-mail addresses and phone numbers simply by looking at their faces? Google engineers have discussed hypothetically using its own this technology for such a purpose, but say they have no plans to actually do it. Acquisti, an information technology and public policy professor, made a database of about 25,000 photos taken from CMU students’ Facebook profiles, CNET explains. Acquisti had volunteers peer into a webcam, and facial recognition software connected their images to their Facebook profiles. The system made a successful identification for 31 percent of the students after less than three seconds. The team also compared about 278,000 Facebook pictures to 6,000 dating website profile pictures, in which the members used pseudonyms, and about one in 10 were identifiable, CNET says. Then the CMU researchers also developed an iPhone app that works the same way, running a photo through facial recognition software and displaying that person’s name and information on the screen. The system only works with front-facing photos, and it would need to be refined, but as technology improves it will only get easier, Acquisti said.[/QUOTE] Source: [url]http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-08/facial-recognition-software-matches-your-face-your-online-identity[/url] :tinfoil:
And even if you delete your account, facebook still stores the pictures and the data. It's a lose-lose situation.
Can it turn me into a dolphin? [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/lo3.jpg[/img] [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Image macro" - Swebonny))[/highlight]
[QUOTE=RyanH;31574652]Can it turn me into a dolphin? [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/lo3.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] The fuck?
I'm the "real" me on facebook anyway, which is why I don't have it on my profile here, on forums, steam or anywhere else on the internet where I'm likely to run into creepy basement dwellers who'll send me pizza or whatever.
[QUOTE=Stren;31574726]I'm the "real" me on facebook anyway, which is why I don't have it on my profile here, on forums, steam or anywhere else on the internet where I'm likely to run into creepy basement dwellers who'll send me pizza or whatever.[/QUOTE] Hell I would be glad if someone sent me some pizza, but only if that someone also paid it.
[QUOTE=Stren;31574726]I'm the "real" me on facebook anyway, which is why I don't have it on my profile here, on forums, steam or anywhere else on the internet where I'm likely to run into creepy basement dwellers who'll send me pizza or whatever.[/QUOTE] Or we would tell everyone about the furry porn :v:
[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;31574820]Or we would tell everyone about the furry porn :v:[/QUOTE]This too, I do shit on the internet that would amuse and disgust my friends in equal measure.
[QUOTE=RyanH;31574652]Can it turn me into a dolphin? [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/lo3.jpg[/img] [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Image macro" - Swebonny))[/highlight][/QUOTE] yeah totally didnt expect that
Oh fuck, I've been anticipating this for a couple of years Now we are all sons of bitches.
Just like Minority report.
As long as they don't develop penis recognition technology I'm safe. I don't have pictures of my face posted anywhere.
Wouldn't getting a picture of someone and then putting it in front of said facial-recognition software put a hole in the security? Just a thought. And wouldn't this stuff have to be advanced not to mistake someone as another person.
[QUOTE=RyanH;31574652]Can it turn me into a dolphin? [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/lo3.jpg[/img] [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Image macro" - Swebonny))[/highlight][/QUOTE] I laughed way too hard, just because of how stupid and random that was [editline]e[/editline] Oh I forgot posting about laughing over a dumb joke MAKES me dumb.
[QUOTE=Artyom;31574963]I laughed way too hard, just because of how stupid and random that was[/QUOTE] XD
OMG SO RANDUMMMMMMMMM XD
[QUOTE=smurfy;31574983]XD[/QUOTE] robot_putting_nofunallowedsign_into_the_ground.jpg
-snip- [editline]7th August 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Keegs;31575012][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2149114/pics/no/k200014_no%20fun%20alloweds.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] I'd remove it before the mods get you :tinfoil:
[QUOTE=Miskav;31574693]The fuck?[/QUOTE] He probably just found the image and had to post it in his true child fashion
This is why I don't have a facebook account. it's a nightmare in terms of privacy.
Wasn't their something called eyepod or something like that which allowed you too place an image, and track it too the source of the image?
I'm also sure Android already has something like this anyway.
oh no if i post personal stuff on the internet people can find it? FUCK
[QUOTE=RyanH;31574652]Can it turn me into a dolphin? [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/lo3.jpg[/img] [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Image macro" - Swebonny))[/highlight][/QUOTE] [img]http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a74/kingdomkey01/seriousta2.gif[/img]
Jokes on them, my phones camera is really low quality so I look a lot like millions of other Facebook users.
If they think they can get pictures of me, I'll just add a bunch of furry porn to my images. Watch it turn out the next day all the systems tracking my profile broke.
At least Germany has the balls to say "No..." to this facial recognition crap.
Well 90% of facebook users are ok then, due to their profile pictures being filled with filter rape effects
1) Make an account with no pictures 2) Prevent others from tagging you 3) All is well
[QUOTE=Murkrow;31581192]1) Make an account with no pictures 2) Prevent others from tagging you 3) All is well[/QUOTE] yeah except that completely goes against the idea of facebook. you may as well not use it
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