New App Allows Identification Of Individuals Using Phone Photo

Technology is democratizing:

A facial recognition app that can identify strangers from a photograph has been created by a British entrepreneur.

Facezam can identify people by matching a photo of them with their Facebook profile. All users have to do is take a picture of someone on the street and run it through the app, which will tell them who it thinks the person in the photo is.

What is interesting is that many capabilities that just a few years back were the exclusive province of government spookdom are now available to individuals for very little cost. From GPS trackers to covert mobile video and audio, to remote monitoring tech, to real time facial recognition now, the average person is increasingly able to do things that just a few years back would have been of questionable existence as a government capability. Even the CIAs hacking arsenal is now open source. Eventually I expect thru-wall video capability of some form and mic arrays that can pic up sounds in houses nearby, to be on eBay for negligible cost.

As people begin realizing how much these devices are being used, they will use them too, and soon everyone will be spying on their neighbors, if for no better reason than to figure out which neighbors are spying on them.

Privacy is increasingly dead, and that will fray the bonds of civilization. I would not expect that to leave everyone in a peaceful mood when the Apocalypse hits. It will not only be a collapse, it will be a hostile collapse.

You cannot fight the tides of nature. The more you try to push r, the more K you get, and the more you try to control the populace, the more anarchy you will produce in the long run. All Yang contains the seeds of Yin, and all Yin contains the seeds of Yang.

Spread r/K Theory, because we want a wild K-shift

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7 years ago

[…] New App Allows Identification Of Individuals Using Phone Photo […]

Anonymous
Anonymous
7 years ago

It seems like they updated the article after you wrote it, to where they conclude the whole thing a hoax done by a marketing firm.

Regardless, such technology is readily available for the Russian equivalent of Facebook through a service called “find face”, which created quite a buzz last year. Naturally, it didn’t take long before people put it to creative use.

https://birdinflight.com/ru/vdohnovenie/fotoproect/06042016-face-big-data.html
https://advox.globalvoices.org/2016/04/22/facial-recognition-service-becomes-a-weapon-against-russian-porn-actresses/

everlastingphelps
everlastingphelps
7 years ago

The good news is, most people won’t take the time to learn how to use these things, and there’s no reason to invest in making them easy to use (because they will just get banned for use by normal citizens as soon as they become popular. See Drones.)

ACThinker
ACThinker
7 years ago

No this just has the potential to move us away from. A guilt/individual culture to a shame/community culture

Pitcrew
Pitcrew
7 years ago

I always suspected that the Google cars had hyperspectral cameras in addition to wifi packet sniffers on them- the pics on Google Earth suggest possible UV + near&long IR detection on their cameras CCDs. Dump trucks, most utility trucks and probably every police cruiser has stuff like that too. The operators might not even know in most cases. Its probably used to build a database of electronic devices, and even locations of wall safes/firearms inside homes. So if someone is “not liked” by a DC bureaucrat- a contractor could enter their home and gain entry to secured valuables- these guys are pros at busting safes. The extent of neighbor spying on neighbor seems almost orchestrated, probably to break communities apart. Of course, the Simpsons warned us years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC-koe0jbxY

Pitcrew
Pitcrew
7 years ago

I always suspected that the Google cars had hyperspectral cameras in addition to wifi packet sniffers on them- the pics on Google Earth suggest possible UV + near&long IR detection on their cameras CCDs. Dump trucks, most utility trucks and probably every police cruiser has stuff like that too. The operators might not even know in most cases. Its probably used to build a database of electronic devices, and even locations of wall safes/firearms inside homes. So if someone is “not liked” by a DC bureaucrat- a contractor could enter their home and gain entry to secured valuables- these guys are pros at busting safes. The extent of neighbor spying on neighbor seems almost orchestrated, probably to break communities apart. Of course, the Simpsons warned us years ago. (Posted twice b/c AC’s blog is probably being hacked)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC-koe0jbxY

180degreesout
180degreesout
7 years ago

r/K mentioned here https://youtu.be/31Ud7-EkZEI

Jordan B Peterson….(Huge K brain!) Vs Sam Harris (high IQ rabbit!)

I’ve offered to buy JBP a copy of the book, for his thoughts on it,
I’m convinced with r/K btw, and he’s a hero afaic, but I’d argue over this with him.

I’d recommend anyone watch him In full flow….
https://youtu.be/CwcVLETRBjg

180degreesout
180degreesout
Reply to  180degreesout
7 years ago

Sorry meant this one from 2 weeks ago…
https://youtu.be/aDRgMUoEvcg

cairennhouse
cairennhouse
7 years ago

This is OT, but I wanted to share. Here is a short article about a company that devised a test to weed out the snowflakes from their job applicants…and other companies are interested in doing the same thing. Could it be that a good portion of corporate America has had enough and will begin taking matters into their own hands?
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2017/03/15/company-creates-snowflake-test-job-applicants-word-spreading-459477

Chris Stevenson
Chris Stevenson
Reply to  cairennhouse
7 years ago

Thanks, this link made my day. I came up with a simple one for hiring and renting out apartments, to young people. It was to avoid the three B’s, beard, backpack and bicycle. This combination always yields problems in NYC whether it be bedbugs, SJW’s, pretense, dysfunction, constant sick calls, filth in the work environment or home, major injuries that result in unpaid rent and massive sick leave. Created a few sly ways of finding out. Friends in business are really sold on it after trying. The bicycle commuter is the worst alone and any two usually are indicative of a dirty r-type. Alone they can be ok. Rented a unit to one couple where the guy did not place his backpack on the floor ever as opposed to those that drag and drop the thing everywhere and then land it on the furniture when they get home. Avoid filth, avoid problems.

SteveRogers42
SteveRogers42
7 years ago