Saturday, 16 February 2019

Taylor Swift is watching you watching her


In 2018, face recognition technology (“FRT”) stumbled from childhood into adolescence in commercial applications. It evolved from being used primarily as a gimmick to unlock your phone or retrieve pictures of specific persons within your 60K pictures, to being used in an almost infinite number of commercial applications on a local scale (mostly in China, a frontrunner in FRT). Examples are checking in to hotels, buying chicken wings, monitoring signs of distraction or fatigue while driving, detecting problem gamblers in casinos and scanning for unwanted guests in a Taylor Swift audience. What does this mean for the EU? Will you…

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http://bit.ly/2DI6CwW Brahim Bénichou February 16, 2019 at 03:00AM

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