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Re:Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants by taneq on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @11:01PM (#18289371)
> However we use our tech only to deliver souvenir photography to event attendees. We will not sell it to government.

Do you have a warrant canary or similar in place?

How hard is it to defeat the "live face" thing and get your system to search for someone else using a photo or something? Could I use a video of someone I want to track?

I'm just playing devil's advocate here. Your service and tech looks awesome if you continue to provide it ethically, it just seems like there are a bunch of ways that services of this kind could be exploited.

Re:Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants by ozgurozkan on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @12:44AM (#18289782)
We are based in Turkey for now. Our database is full of public event photos. Surveillance in Istanbul is not good enough to make a good face recog search. We are too fresh and young for a warrant canary.

There is too many face spoofing prevention techniques. We are actively testing one right now.(Currently on A/B test) Especially after iPhone X which brings depth camera someone should replicate your face in 3D to make a face spoof. More info about face spoofing techniques: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.09868.pdf

Re:Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants by lexs on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @07:36AM (#18291478)
> We are too fresh and young for a warrant canary.

Turkey doesn't have the best track record on this, if you don't have a canary might as well assume you are already cooperating