Comments on: Fool Facial Recognition Technology http://www.howtovanish.com/2010/05/visual-recognition-technology/ Learn how to protect your personal and financial privacy. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:54:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Joe McPlumber http://www.howtovanish.com/2010/05/visual-recognition-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-1680 Joe McPlumber Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:38:40 +0000 http://www.howtovanish.com/?p=1050#comment-1680 I'm still creeped out because i let Picasa run through my photo collection and it recognized me as a teenager with big bug sunglasses AND it picked me out as a toddler. The latter in tiny, pixelated images with other people in them. If a Google product is that good then i have to wonder what the government has. Perhaps even scarier are the false matches, e.g. Picasa persistently tried to identify my wife's niece as my wife. What chance do you have in court if "the computer says" that it saw you do it? I've encountered a lot of government computers in my time and according to the people who serve them they are never, ever, wrong. I’m still creeped out because i let Picasa run through my photo collection and it recognized me as a teenager with big bug sunglasses AND it picked me out as a toddler. The latter in tiny, pixelated images with other people in them.

If a Google product is that good then i have to wonder what the government has.

Perhaps even scarier are the false matches, e.g. Picasa persistently tried to identify my wife’s niece as my wife. What chance do you have in court if “the computer says” that it saw you do it? I’ve encountered a lot of government computers in my time and according to the people who serve them they are never, ever, wrong.

]]> By: thurman http://www.howtovanish.com/2010/05/visual-recognition-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-1365 thurman Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:35:19 +0000 http://www.howtovanish.com/?p=1050#comment-1365 Simply 'Dazzle camouflage'. Look up on Wikipedia. Same idea. Info, want it or not! Many sailors from the Great War refused to go on WW II ships unless they were painted in Dazzle. Most Dazzle ships in WW II survived at an outstanding rate compared to ordinary paint jobs. If it could fool subs and dive bombers, why not Big Brothers eye on the street. Simply ‘Dazzle camouflage’. Look up on Wikipedia. Same idea. Info, want it or not! Many sailors from the Great War refused to go on WW II ships unless they were painted in Dazzle. Most Dazzle ships in WW II survived at an outstanding rate compared to ordinary paint jobs.
If it could fool subs and dive bombers, why not Big Brothers eye on the street.

]]> By: The Man of a Thousand Faces and Video Surveillance Systems http://www.howtovanish.com/2010/05/visual-recognition-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-1335 The Man of a Thousand Faces and Video Surveillance Systems Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:13:05 +0000 http://www.howtovanish.com/?p=1050#comment-1335 [...] So how can you fool facial recognition technology and avoid showing up in those databases.   If you live in a place like New York where avoidance is practically impossible, Use low tech solutions like wearing a hood, hat, sombrero, V mask or other disguise to keep from being recognized. Use infrared LED lights or laser pointers to blur the image in most surveillance cameras. Use makeup to fool facial recognition technology. [...] [...] So how can you fool facial recognition technology and avoid showing up in those databases.   If you live in a place like New York where avoidance is practically impossible, Use low tech solutions like wearing a hood, hat, sombrero, V mask or other disguise to keep from being recognized. Use infrared LED lights or laser pointers to blur the image in most surveillance cameras. Use makeup to fool facial recognition technology. [...]

]]> By: Justen Robertson http://www.howtovanish.com/2010/05/visual-recognition-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-621 Justen Robertson Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:08:37 +0000 http://www.howtovanish.com/?p=1050#comment-621 Who'd have thought woad would turn out to have a practical application in fighting the British of our day. After some poking around it looks like these guys sell a great, long-lasting body paint that may be useful in this endeavor: http://temptu.com. Bonus points if you have Scottish heritage and can pass this off as observing cultural tradition (I can!). Who’d have thought woad would turn out to have a practical application in fighting the British of our day. After some poking around it looks like these guys sell a great, long-lasting body paint that may be useful in this endeavor: http://temptu.com. Bonus points if you have Scottish heritage and can pass this off as observing cultural tradition (I can!).

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