New research claims to be able to recognise a potential 'terrorist face' Posted by twoshedsmcginty on Thursday May 26, 2016 @11:10AM from the thestack.com dept. https://thestack.com/security/2016/05/26/face-recognition-tech-claims-to-identify-terrorists/ ( 2 comments | 3 points | on HN )
> Face recognition tech claims to identify terrorists
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> The evidence that there is accuracy in these judgments is extremely weak
What?
And:
> Faception claims 80% accuracy in identifying facial characteristics
Won't millions of false positives hamper terrorist detection? You got to have an accuracy to identify one in 1 in 100 million, which is 99.999999%.
Facebook can now tell me which of my friends are poker players, pedophiles or terrorists, 'just by looking at them'.
My daydreams of going offline and becoming totally anonymous have just become much more vivid.