[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;39790491]How practical would it be for a company to do a comprehensive and in-depth search of an entire person over the course of [I]decades[/I]? How long does that take for a single person? How long would it take to run this check on every single one of the thousands of people applying for your company? Will this search require technology that doesn't even exist yet?[/QUOTE]
well sir it looks here like you said a swear word once, i'm afraid we're not interested in hiring you
[QUOTE=Zeke129;39791374]Yeah it's basically going to be banned at all live performances, everyone's house, and most businesses[/QUOTE]
Movie theaters for sure, they're already installing cameras in the cinema that watch everybody and automatically spot camera lenses.
What I do want to use this for is GoPro-like applications. I could totally picture someone driving on a rally course and projecting a map of upcoming turns into the corner of their vision, much like a video game. If the vocal commands work, you can operate everything hands-free while you're driving or snowboarding or whatever.
But for social situations, this is a complete no-go. Nobody wants to be around the guy who is recording everything he sees and backing it up to Google's servers.
[QUOTE=Kopimi;39790685]and despite how powerful googles computers are and will become in the future, i dont think its even remotely feasible to run a facial recognition algorithm on millions of drivers licenses EACH TIME you need to identify one unidentified face in a google image. there's a fine line between speculative fear of the future and scifi paranoia[/QUOTE]
This is a fundamental misconception of how search algorithms work. The computer doesn't go through every face individually, comparing it against the reference until it finds a match like in the movies. Search algorithms are designed to be logarithmic in time: doubling the size of the database increases the search time by the same amount regardless of the size of the database.
[QUOTE=ThePuska;39795106]This is a fundamental misconception of how search algorithms work. The computer doesn't go through every face individually, comparing it against the reference until it finds a match like in the movies. Search algorithms are designed to be logarithmic in time: doubling the size of the database increases the search time by the same amount regardless of the size of the database.[/QUOTE]
That doesn't fucking matter. It would take too much time and too much resources to do this, no matter how advanced the search algorithm.
The amount of data Google has is kind of scary but I would've been much more worried if it was some other company in charge of it all. Not trying to be a fanboy or anything but Google has done a pretty good job so far and assuming they won't change. I'm fine with it.
Still one thing that scared me is how my new Nexus 7 all of a sudden told me that it will take me 20 minutes to get to the supermarket that was close to where I used to live a few months back. I have only taken my nexus 7 to Uni and back and it doesn't have 3G. My phone does have 3G but it is mostly off along with GPS. Yet it still knew perfectly well that I used to frequent that store. :tinfoil:
[QUOTE=CommanderPT;39796270]The amount of data Google has is kind of scary but I would've been much more worried if it was some other company in charge of it all. Not trying to be a fanboy or anything but Google has done a pretty good job so far and assuming they won't change. I'm fine with it.
Still one thing that scared me is how my new Nexus 7 all of a sudden told me that it will take me 20 minutes to get to the supermarket that was close to where I used to live a few months back. I have only taken my nexus 7 to Uni and back and it doesn't have 3G. My phone does have 3G but it is mostly off along with GPS. Yet it still knew perfectly well that I used to frequent that store. :tinfoil:[/QUOTE]
Search history, previous devices, maps entries...
[QUOTE=The First 11'er;39790475]yeah this article is a bit sensationalist really
it's just conspiracy shit[/QUOTE]
That's an ignorant statement. Making valid points is not "conspiracy shit", and not all "conspiracies" are shit.
[QUOTE=Kopimi;39790632]how will google know that a photo of me is actually OF me if i never registered my name to my face?[/QUOTE]
never underestimate bayes' theorem
lmao this is a really silly slippery slope argument, if they wanted to do this they would already do it with phones.
[QUOTE=Shadaez;39797601]lmao this is a really silly slippery slope argument, if they wanted to do this they would already do it with phones.[/QUOTE]
And get lots of footage of pockets and office ceilings
[QUOTE]Ten years from now, someone, some company, or some organization, takes an interest in you, wants to know if you’ve ever said anything they consider offensive, or threatening, or just includes a mention of a certain word or phrase they find interesting.[/QUOTE]
Suddenly everyone is jobless.
My mission in life is to hasten Google's ascent to the world throne.
I'll take three.
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;39798881]Suddenly everyone is jobless.[/QUOTE]
this is something else i dont get about the employer privacy agreement. if the issue is (largely) that we're worried employers will use this tech in the future to spy on possible employees and will mean its impossible for people to get a job, why dont we just make it illegal for employers to discriminate against employees based on personal information / make accessing that information, as an employer, illegal, rather than trying to stop the advancement of technology that will inevitably be developed and marketed?
Great feature. We could document the peaks of mountains in panoramic three-dimension, or the Amazon Rain Forest. I'm excited. This makes the world available to humanity from your living room, and I think it's just another step for us as a species.
[QUOTE=Mac2468;39790460]Seems a like someone's a little paranoid about it.[/QUOTE]
Better to worry about it now and approach it cautiously, than to worry about it later when it's already too vital a part of social function that it's use is necessary.
can I point out that this thread should never exist since its a blog post, not a news headline.
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;39796381]Search history, previous devices, maps entries...[/QUOTE]
I haven't search anything related to that. Nor plotted my course to the store since I literally lived one minute away.
I think I'd rather a holographic device that works like Stark's computer anyways.
[QUOTE=CommanderPT;39805825]I haven't search anything related to that. Nor plotted my course to the store since I literally lived one minute away.[/QUOTE]
Ever googled anything about the store on chrome?
As a person who has worn glasses since they were 2 (now 22), I would embrace this technology, as it would give benefit to my deficit.
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This is something I'd expect to see on /g/.
They're all paranoid as fuck there.
tracking people is already done better by security cameras, and software does exist to process and track people, phrchase history, etc.
I don't think I can make a tinfoil hat big enough for this
"there's no way to know you're being recorded" rofl what kind of fear mongering bullshit is this
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