Face-verify.js: Monitoring who is physically looking at a website

Re:Face-verify.js: Monitoring who is physically looking at a... by lbotos on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @04:11PM (#16424243)

I'm reading a (sometimes hyperbolic) but interesting "book" on this: Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age:

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/digital-stock...

"Now, the modern person is determined by data exhaust—an invisible anthropocentric ether of ones and zeros that is a product of our digitally monitored age."

I won't doubt that in 15-20 years, using the process of deduction of your phone/laptop/browsing habits/credit card usage/address info a company could, if bothered, collate that data to get "your picture". And I mean literally zoom in a security cam to snap the photo.

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Re:Face-verify.js: Monitoring who is physically looking at a... by e12e on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @02:29AM (#16427605)

There's the combined idea of machine recognition (facial, gait, etc) - "convenience" and overreach:

Goes a bit like:

1) a place to start, 2) a way to follow, virtually, in time and space - augmented with total surveillance.

1) "In China, KFC tests out ‘smile to pay’" https://www.techinasia.com/kfc-china-tests-facial-recognitio...

2) "China’s facial-recognition systems crunch data from cameras to monitor citizens"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14643433

Also:

https://www.theverge.com/2013/2/1/3940898/darpa-gigapixel-dr...

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nzey3w/what-those...

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