How's this for "wow, cool", and "wow, creepy" at the same time?
Tech to do this is available worldwide. Every airport has a scan of your passport, knows what plane you need to board and where it is, no extra capabilities would need to be deployed. But, imagine the uproar if a kiosk like this went up somewhere in the West.
How long do you think before we all get used to stuff like this? You can be sure it is coming, just a matter of time.
Till it becomes illegal, I suppose. I'm sure the Chinese are not going to put up with it, and eventually, others could follow suit in the name of national security. But it might not even matter if the claims that are being made for gait recognition technology turn out to be true. In a nutshell, how we walk uniquely identifies us, and though the technology does not work in real-time yet, the Chinese are already deploying it.
Wait, so the conundrum is over precisely identifying persons? I think it's more a matter of trust in government. Or in whatever entity is being dealt with, at any given place and time. I'd expect it to be normal in airports and similar places to have zero privacy or anonymity from the officials.
I noticed an iris scanner at the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport recently to streamline checkin. If I came across this tech before the advent of Web 2.0 I would probably not give it much of a second thought but that cat is out of the bag. I find myself far less trusting these days.
I think they may end up needing to add a passcode authentication.
Or maybe I’ve watched too many old Mission Impossible tv episodes of spies wearing a face mask to impersonate a Latin American dictator, or I just remember the movie Face/Off.
Is facial log-in to Cake in the foreseeable future, @yaypie ?
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It turns out that the police world uses human “Super Recognisers” to identify criminals in a crowd.
A super recognizer can typically remember 80% of the faces they’re introduced to compared to less than 20% for the rest of us.
Unfortunately, you can’t be trained to be a super recognizer—your born with the skill—but the talent can be developed with training.
