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Re:Footsteps, Pressure Sensors, and AI: The Next Step in Air... by Tade0 on Thursday May 31, 2018 @07:03AM (#17195416)
The head of our department was rightfully sceptical as well.

Here's how they did it: they had a few decent cameras zoomed and focused so that their fields of view formed a skewed line crossing the path the subjects walked.

You only need a 300x150 image of the whole eye to perform decent iris recognition, so an eye covering 10% of a given camera's field of view was usually large enough.

But that was in 2012 - I imagine they've made some improvements.

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Re:Footsteps, Pressure Sensors, and AI: The Next Step in Air... by lifeisstillgood on Thursday May 31, 2018 @09:44AM (#17196210)
I still think we can only survive as societies with truly radical openness - stick up all the cameras younwant, but it is legally obliged to publish everything you are monitoring - everyone gets to see what everyone else sees.

i honestly don't see any alternatives, despite the enormous implications

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Re:Footsteps, Pressure Sensors, and AI: The Next Step in Air... by bryanlarsen on Thursday May 31, 2018 @10:31AM (#17196570)
An idea publicized and championed by David Brin in 1996 (!)

http://www.davidbrin.com/transparentsociety.html

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Re:Footsteps, Pressure Sensors, and AI: The Next Step in Air... by 86767858587 on Thursday May 31, 2018 @09:09PM (#17201772)
An idea dissected in detail since even the 1950s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days#Simila...

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Re:Footsteps, Pressure Sensors, and AI: The Next Step in Air... by bronson on Thursday May 31, 2018 @11:11AM (#17196873)
The GPL of camera footage?

"Publish the terabytes of footage you're recording, and market it so we know where to find it, or... or... we'll do something!"

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Re:Footsteps, Pressure Sensors, and AI: The Next Step in Air... by lifeisstillgood on Thursday May 31, 2018 @03:58PM (#17199630)
Publish it or you will be liable under the law for upto 4% of your global corporate turnover. For each camera.

Seems to be working so far as a threat.

Look this is a new world, just as the one where "sending children to work down mines and in factories is bad" or "dumping pollutants in rivers is bad". The laws took time to exist and time to get teeth and time to get enforced - but they feel natural now.

Just wait

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