how does my iPhone know that's me
and how does Facebook know that's me and
why is Facebook always asking if I want
to tag myself in these photos well both
are using facial recognition technology
so what's going on facial recognition is
not a new thing it was pretty simple
people would use a ruler to take
measurements of your facial features
like how long your eyebrows are the
position of your eyes the curve of your
lips and so forth today the process is
much faster now we use a board like a
deep learning base the method which I
based the recommendation even higher
than a human can do it's almost perfect
that's one sook Lee a professor in the
school of Electrical Engineering and
computer science at the University of
Ottawa she has 15 years of expertise in
facial recognition facial modeling and
computer animation wait did she just say
that accuracy rate of facial recognition
is almost perfect
it's almost a perfect almost perfect
almost perfect there are all these
headlines about facial recognition being
racist or having pre-programmed biases
why was amazon's recognition
misidentifying dark-skinned women but
identifying white men this is basically
because they don't have a lot of
database for african people equally the
colonized attend oh well good feedback
overnight age and then also if we
recognize ethnic groups I was with those
King torn we can raise the recognition
system battle gotcha
so if Amazon's recognition was having
trouble identifying dark-skinned women
programmers need to feed at more images
of dark-skinned women and show them in
various scenarios different lighting
various angles and different outfits
wearing hats and sunglasses all things
that would increase the accuracy rate so
theoretically if the facial recognition
software has enough variety of images of
me it should be able to recognize me
percent of the time even if I fed it an
image of me in a darker scenario with
glasses on and short blue hair now I
don't care if Facebook Miss identifies
me as someone else but what about one
facial recognition miss identifies
people at the airport or when law
enforcement uses it to make an arrest
Caucasian people recognize a Caucasian
very rare but they don't recognize Asian
people very well they don't recognize
African people very well either
people are depending on familiarity can
within washing can do more objective
work if they are trained enough with the
various people without you know for data
luckily it's not left up to just the
machines and if facial recognition gets
it wrong there are other methods in
place like fingerprint iris ear and palm
recognition but this still doesn't
address the security and privacy
concerns that come with this new
technology let's start with facial
recognition in airports according to a
recent report from BuzzFeed news the US
Customs and Border Protection stated
that they're using this technology to
one identify non-us citizens who use
fraudulent travel documents and to
provide a quicker check-in process but
there are concerns that the US
government is using this technology to
create a digital identification library
of millions of Americans without their
consent
CBP says they're not storing the photos
but it's hard to prove if that's true or
not the US Customs and Border Protection
claims they do delete photos after 12
hours and that they also give US
citizens the option to opt out of
checking in with facial recognition and
check in manually the reality is not
many travelers know that they can opt
out of the technology another concern is
the US Immigration and Customs
Enforcement using facial recognition I
says it's using the technology to
protect the u.s. from cross-border
crimes and undocumented migrants they
say threaten national security
and public safety but there are concerns
that this could be used as a tool that
violates human rights if there aren't
clear protections and restrictions in
place it's unclear how this will shake
out in the US but in China we're already
seeing how the overuse of facial
recognition can get out of hand the
country is using facial recognition for
mass surveillance and to give their
citizens social scores a citizen social
score is based on their economic and
social reputation and can be affected by
bad driving jaywalking posting fake news
online or just buying too many video
games when people pass and they fall
face is shown and if they have a
database or portal poster
we cannot recognize that person and then
if you tear our CCTV everywhere in the
city they say there is a target person
governments want to know whatever
intellectually they can handle the trick
and then have timed out everything about
a person their face is linked to their
government records social networks and
tracked behavior through CCTV cameras
good and honest behaviors can lead to
discounted airline tickets committing
wrong deeds can cause problems like
banning you from flights and trains or
taking away your dog the Chinese
government believes this social credit
system can help society be better by
rewarding good behavior and denouncing
bad behavior but it does feel like
Orwell's 1984
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and citizens have reported concerns
about their privacy and the lack of
checks and balances on this system
facial recognition is a powerful tool
and with great power comes great
responsibility
right it could wind up being great for
automation finding missing people or
just checking you in at the airport but
should companies and governments even
have access to all this data what sorts
of guidelines should they follow will
the government use it in limited ways
like just for law enforcement or will
they use it publicly to embarrass
citizens like China's Social Credit
System how can they guarantee that the
data they collect will be deleted what
are they going to do in case of a data
breach or how will they prevent one
these are questions that are still in
discussion and it doesn't sound like
there are going to be any simple answer
as anytime soon facial recognition is
here to stay but there needs to be more
terms and services and guidelines and
regulations that will help protect the
rights security safety and privacy of
the people who are affected by the
technology otherwise its use might
become widespread faster than it can be
regulated and if the u.s. adopts the
same Social Credit System as China I
don't want to be banned from taking
flights just because I J walk all the
time come on it's New York