Carnegie
Monday, August 1 2011
Facial Recognition Deducing Social Security Numbers
[16:11:00] matt [wronka.org]/Psi.dementia "Those freaked out by facial recognition technology have fresh fodder: a study from Carnegie Mellon University in which researchers were able to predict people’s social security numbers after taking a photo of them with a cheap webcam."
This, I feel, is the wrong thing ot be scared of. Technology advances, facial recognition will get better. The problem isn't with the technology behind facial recognition, but the significance that has come to be placed on a mostly sequentialy derived number with no inherent security that has become a near-universal identification system.
http://blogs.forbes.com/kashmirhill/2011/08/01/how-face-recognition-can-be-used-to-get-your-social-security-number/
[16:11:00] matt [wronka.org]/Psi.dementia "Those freaked out by facial recognition technology have fresh fodder: a study from Carnegie Mellon University in which researchers were able to predict people’s social security numbers after taking a photo of them with a cheap webcam."
This, I feel, is the wrong thing ot be scared of. Technology advances, facial recognition will get better. The problem isn't with the technology behind facial recognition, but the significance that has come to be placed on a mostly sequentialy derived number with no inherent security that has become a near-universal identification system.
http://blogs.forbes.com/kashmirhill/2011/08/01/how-face-recognition-can-be-used-to-get-your-social-security-number/