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Re:Microsoft pitched facial recognition to the DEA by DaiPlusPlus on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @05:27PM (#23556987)
I’m not face-blind, but I do suck at remembering who people are. I want it for my Google Glass so it tells me who I’m talking to so I stop embarrassing myself when someone greets me - now if only wearing GG in public was socially acceptable...
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Re:Microsoft pitched facial recognition to the DEA by Reelin on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @08:00PM (#23558297)
To be fair, that could easily be implemented in a personal manner with manual tagging. There's no need for giant centralized databases or violations of privacy to achieve your usecase.
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Re:Microsoft pitched facial recognition to the DEA by DaiPlusPlus on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @08:52PM (#23558637)
I was referring to facial-recognition in general - I could train a recognizer on my phone's contacts photos. I didn't mean getting a GG app that used a database trained on public Facebook and LinkedIn photos.
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