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2017-03-15 Science & Technology

New APP Lets You Find Strangers on FACEBOOK just by snapping their pic

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-03-15 07:57|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 The Telegraph:

The technology could help reduce crime by making everyone identifiable, Kenyon had claimed, adding that the public implications of the app couldn't be predicted. "There may be a mix of positives and negatives," he said.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-03-15 08:12|| 2017-03-15 08:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Voluntary BAT's and HIIDES, who knew ?

The Biometric Automated Toolset (BAT) and the Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment (HIIDE) system also are used in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Posted by Besoeker 2017-03-15 09:15|| 2017-03-15 09:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Time to buy that paste on groucho mustache and ugly pair of sun glasses...

Posted by M. Murcek 2017-03-15 09:17|| 2017-03-15 09:17|| Front Page Top

We come in friendship for the children.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-03-15 09:25|| 2017-03-15 09:25|| Front Page Top

#5 It is creepy and invasive and borders on or is stalking. "You don't know me but I took your picture in a crowd, looked you up on Facebook, and tracked you down. Do you want to go out?"

Posted by JohnQC 2017-03-15 09:40|| 2017-03-15 09:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Tech, not UV, forcing the adoption of veils(noqab).

Posted by Skidmark 2017-03-15 10:42|| 2017-03-15 10:42|| Front Page Top

#7 That's why I'm not on facebook.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-15 11:44|| 2017-03-15 11:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Me neither.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-03-15 13:20|| 2017-03-15 13:20|| Front Page Top

#9 #3 Time to buy that paste on groucho mustache and ugly pair of sun glasses...

Was playing the other day with a neural network to recognize images. Got me wondering about using bold streaks of face paint to defeat facial recognition. Rather like dazzle camouflage for ships back before radar became The Next Big Thing.

Posted by SteveS 2017-03-15 15:29|| 2017-03-15 15:29|| Front Page Top

#10 In order for it to work, ya' gotta have your picture on Fazebook first.

Posted by Barbara 2017-03-15 20:57|| 2017-03-15 20:57|| Front Page Top

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