This post is on the BDSM Activism web board (moved from Other BDSM).
| Sun 22 Aug 10, 11:54 PM pink_satin_sissy 2 yrs |
I was just reading the Daily Mail, (Mail On Line) news item about new facial recognition software which can potentially identify and put a name to any photo of a face posted on the internet. I'm not sure what the implications will be for sites such as Informed Consent. Perhaps someone with more technical knowledge than myself can shed light on this. | |
| 22 Aug 10, 11:56 PM Subbenn UK(SW), 3 yrs   |
Google already do some basic facial recognition (and have done since 2007). See Ars Technia for more details... Updated to add: This feature has since appeared in the search page anyway under "image type" which is really all this is recognising at the moment. However, given that Google has some of the best software engineers in the world, and has bought a few image-based companies (and also given the existence of facial recognition in things like Apple's iPhoto software), I'm sure it can't be too long before Google can start returning images of you and people that look like you. If you don't want it known publicly, don't put it on the web. Edited 23 Aug 10, 12:03 AM by Subbenn | |
| 23 Aug 10, 2:50 AM TheBinder 4 yrs |
Forget facial recognition, google is lethal as it is. I once went out with a girl, who managed to find a post I made on a forum (totally vanilla and unrelated) 3-4 years previously about poo. Well at least it broke the ice! | |
| 23 Aug 10, 4:10 AM Miss_Saucy UK(N), 2 yrs |
I would say.. do not believe everything you read in the Daily Mail | |
| 23 Aug 10, 7:40 AM camdencouple UK(NW), 6 yrs |
We are quite guarded about our kinky identiy on the web, to the extent that we have different email addresses and facebook accounts for our kinky and vanilla personas. It is not even that we have a particular need to be secretive, neither of our jobs would be adversely effected by being outed at the present. However we do feel that we do not want to set up a "hostage to fortune" situation where should our circumstances change in the future we find that our desire for priveacy has been severly compromised by past activity.
Edited 23 Aug 10, 7:41 AM by camdencouple | |
| 23 Aug 10, 9:04 AM Sirebel UK, 5 yrs    |
Image processing is big business at the moment with a significant amount of research money being poured into this area. The main drive is coming from the robotics and automotive industries that need it to make autonomous mobile devices (as in moving, not as in phones). There is already plenty of software available that can match image content, not just faces but also bodies and background furniture. There is already significant risk that your public and "private" persona could be linked. You'd be surprised how easy it is to trace people through information they make available on the internet. I regularly perform searches on myself to see how easy it is to link Sirebel to my real world identity and it's scary how hard it is to keep the two separate. If you really want to have an online presence that is entirely separate from your public online persona then I wish you all the luck. Not posting personal information, either image or text, that can link the two is very difficult. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. Abraham Lincoln | |
| 23 Aug 10, 11:33 AM Degenerate  UK(M), 5 yrs  |
I can't shed light but it seems a good time to mention that posting something on the internet is public, so when posting images or text, we might be safer if we consider what to post based on the knowledge that the least convenient people may catch up with our gems of embarrassment at some point De Sign up to CAAN's statement www.caan.org.uk Edited 23 Aug 10, 12:43 PM by Degenerate | |
| 23 Aug 10, 11:35 AM a_palm_full_of_stars 23 mths |
Nothing good can ever come from this.
Edited 23 Aug 10, 11:36 AM by a_palm_full_of_stars | |
| 23 Aug 10, 11:42 AM SirOpenSource UK(E), 6 yrs   |
And each time you use google to do that you lay down further avenues to yourself. SOS The Titter group - for when you don't feel too serious. | |
| 23 Aug 10, 12:41 PM Jeymie UK(B), 23 mths |
So long as face recogntion remains just that, OK. But supposing they can recognise my bum? - will it look big on google? | |
| 23 Aug 10, 12:51 PM merrynb99 UK(SL), 6 yrs |
I've tried using www.tineye.com to reverse search for images without success ... how exposed are we really? |
