Re:Facial recognition technology is everywhere, and it may n...
by harshreality on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:23AM
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> more reliable biometric based ID
> Privacy as we knew it is dead
I wonder if the next round of physical criminal technology advances will be about shielding and forging identities, using fake fingerprints (3d printed, perhaps), fake contacts (again, perhaps 3d printable?), fake faces (again, perhaps 3d printable, plus makeup?), fake gaits/comportment (which can be disguised or imitated, with enough practice).
And where that's not practical, like DNA evidence at crime scenes, there will be countermeasures. The second episode of Almost Human comes to mind, with its passing mention of "DNA bombs" that shower a room with what I expect was imagined as lots and lots of dna snippets, or perhaps rapid-growing bacteria or fungi with many engineered variants of human STR loci to FUBAR PCR analysis.
> Privacy as we knew it is dead
I wonder if the next round of physical criminal technology advances will be about shielding and forging identities, using fake fingerprints (3d printed, perhaps), fake contacts (again, perhaps 3d printable?), fake faces (again, perhaps 3d printable, plus makeup?), fake gaits/comportment (which can be disguised or imitated, with enough practice).
And where that's not practical, like DNA evidence at crime scenes, there will be countermeasures. The second episode of Almost Human comes to mind, with its passing mention of "DNA bombs" that shower a room with what I expect was imagined as lots and lots of dna snippets, or perhaps rapid-growing bacteria or fungi with many engineered variants of human STR loci to FUBAR PCR analysis.