Today you can be identified by an array of digital representations of your face via technology applications, which will soon scan the faces of U.S. citizens who want to manage their taxes online with the Internal Revenue Service trib.al/cZHOMM8
On the surface, these services are simple, but the number of companies processing faceprints is also growing.
This raises some hard questions about how we want to be identified — and even classified — in the future trib.al/qoArEiC
This raises some hard questions about how we want to be identified — and even classified — in the future trib.al/qoArEiC
A way to imagine today’s complex web of facial recognition vendors is to think of the Internet as being like The National Portrait Gallery in London.
The public portraits freely on display are like the billions of photos people post on social media trib.al/qoArEiC
The public portraits freely on display are like the billions of photos people post on social media trib.al/qoArEiC
Several U.S. states including Maryland and Georgia recently tapped Apple to store state IDs and drivers licenses on their citizens’ iPhones.
People’s faces are converted into faceprints, a digital representation that looks like a string of numbers trib.al/qoArEiC
People’s faces are converted into faceprints, a digital representation that looks like a string of numbers trib.al/qoArEiC
Different companies have different faceprints for the same people, in the same way your fingerprints remain constant but the inky stamp they make will always be slightly different.
Some companies have varying degrees of ownership over the data trib.al/qoArEiC
Some companies have varying degrees of ownership over the data trib.al/qoArEiC
Soon, the IRS will require Americans to ditch their login credentials for its website and verify themselves with an ID.me faceprint to manage their tax records online trib.al/qoArEiC
What happens when more companies start processing and storing our faces over time?
It’s not inconceivable that some of them will start sharing facial data with others to be analyzed, in the way ad networks exchange reams of personal data for ad-targeting trib.al/qoArEiC
It’s not inconceivable that some of them will start sharing facial data with others to be analyzed, in the way ad networks exchange reams of personal data for ad-targeting trib.al/qoArEiC
What happens when your faceprint becomes another way to analyze emotion? Or makes you a target of fraudsters?
Growth of these databases raises some of the same risks that came with passwords — of identities being forged or stolen trib.al/qoArEiC
Growth of these databases raises some of the same risks that came with passwords — of identities being forged or stolen trib.al/qoArEiC
Facial recognition has blundered in the past, and personal data has been mined unscrupulously, too.
With the facial-recognition market growing in funding and entrants, the array of gatekeepers will get harder to keep track of, let alone understand trib.al/qoArEiC
With the facial-recognition market growing in funding and entrants, the array of gatekeepers will get harder to keep track of, let alone understand trib.al/qoArEiC
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