Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on human rights concerns

Re:Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on human r... by Razengan on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @07:11PM (#19687231)

A future of global surveillance seems inevitable at this rate, but society will evolve means to thwart it.

Wearing masks in public is already a norm in some East-Asian countries, and it’s a form of fashion as well [0]. Just add glasses to that, which will become common if AR smartglssses take off.

Maybe we’ll see people walking around in fashionable neo-tribal’ish masks [1] (as decorations around AR glasses) to hinder intrusive face/retina scanning.

[0] https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=face+mask+fashion

[1] https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=killmonger+mask

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Re:Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on human r... by snaky on Thursday April 18, 2019 @05:33AM (#19689807)

> China has begun rolling out new surveillance software capable of recognising people simply by the way that they walk.

> The "gait recognition" technology, developed by Chinese artificial intelligence firm Watrix, is capable of identifying individuals from the shape and movement of their silhouette from up to 50 metres away, even if their face is hidden.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-surveill...

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Re:Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on human r... by kkarakk on Thursday April 18, 2019 @06:17AM (#19689942)

you can fool gait recognition simply by putting a stone in your shoe,gait recognition is no where as sophisticated as it claims to be.

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Re:Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on human r... by Razengan on Thursday April 18, 2019 @08:48AM (#19690581)

and won’t silhouettes be easily affected by different clothing?

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Re:Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on human r... by lkadr on Thursday April 18, 2019 @05:02AM (#19689708)

Some Europeans countries (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria ) and China have banned hiding one's face one's face in public. Those Asian face masks would be OK, but tribal masks wouldn't.

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Re:Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on human r... by Razengan on Thursday April 18, 2019 @05:28AM (#19689793)

Do those bans include Islamic Hijab etc.?

Again, if those medical/hygienic face masks are OK, wouldn't decorative frills (say, feathers) around sunglasses be OK too? That combination would effectively cover enough of a face.

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