Facial recognition technology will change the way we live

Facial recognition technology will transform the way we live in 2018. Machines that can read and recognise our faces will go mainstream, opening up exciting possibilities and posing new dangers
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In 2018 machines that can read your face will go mainstream, changing the way we live. Your face will become your password, unlocking smartphones and bank accounts, but the technology will also have the power to covertly track your movements.
It will even be able to guess your sexuality through facial features alone. In 2018 we'll be forced to face the future.
The human face has an astonishing variety of features which not only help us recognize others, but read and understand them through a constant flow of intentional and unintentional signals. It's one of the unique functions that separates man from machine, until now.
Pioneering facial recognition technology hasn't yet hit the mainstream. In 2018 it will be in our pockets. But using your face to unlock your phone is just the beginning.
In the suburbs of Israel's financial center, Tel Aviv, a team of engineers is at the forefront of a technological revolution. They're teaching machines to read faces.
The software has the power to identify one face from millions in under one second and it's this precision that makes the technology an effective new tool for surveillance.
Retail stores are using this technology to generate data on customers; tracking their shopping habits and targeting in-store adverts. Churches are even using facial recognition to monitor attendance, and one school in the UK wants to use it to keep tabs on teachers.
There's one country that's ahead of the game, China. Companies have access to a government image database of 700 million people, half its population. But there's the potential for more sinister applications. Researchers have shown that your face can point to your sexuality.
This new ability to record, store, and analyze images of faces on a vast scale will fundamentally change notions of privacy, fairness, and trust.
But tech companies are forging ahead with their plans to make facial recognition an everyday part of our lives.
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[@gregoriohb]

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever.” ― George Orwell, 1984

[@LS-sz7vl]

What size is de boot. And is the man stomping a he or a she

[@zmartkooky244]

@@LS-sz7vl The boot is an analogy for the brutality of the state.

[@fnm27]

Black mirror authors knew about this from 2008 XD

[@mikegrant5584]

Fnm this technology been out long before 2008 that we know

[@martinmino4635]

Orwell knew it decades before.

[@serpentzachary1340]

This is the dystopian technology that we don't want.

[@kvbo2564]

Wow, that Face-Six guy (5:34)....He seems all too happy to use this technology to monitor others and immediately dismisses the very important issue of privacy.

[@gordongoodman8342]

kevkevkev s Anti-semite!

[@IgWannA2]

They don't need to track your face, Google already has full location history data on most users.

[@gadva356]

Yeah but there are still people that don't use smartphones or google. And they couldn't be tracked before. With automated face recognition in public places everyone can be tracked.

[@akltom]

IgWannA2 that’s why google and facebook have been kick out from china. national security purpose. google and facebook denied to keep the data of chinese citizens in china. all other country’s data is stored in america now.

[@vandenbergstudio9088]

Gad Va the data of people who use Google or smartphone is more interesting for marketing analysis. This group of people are easier to earn their money. I think facial recognition has high efficiency for the company or government to respond.

[@MrBlaxjax]

tk The reason Google and facebook were kicked out of China was that the Chinese government do not want Chinese people to read their own history by googling it. Facebook was banned because it can be used to communicate person to person with no control at all available to the Chinese government.

[@manictiger]

VPN helps keep these greasy ass companies from tracking you, but the government damn well knows every single byte you send/recieve. The only way to have real privacy is to live in a faraday cage lined with mylar (anti-infrared) in a hole in the ground in the middle of nowhere. Pretty extreme, right? It used to be you just went to a log cabin with a good fishing spot for that.

[@westower9661]

I seriously doubt this is going to be used for benign purposes by most governments.

[@peiwei3873]

Wes Tower that's why the cockroaches at Economist are pushing it with their slimy spin!

[@michaelyoung7171]

Because this part of the One world government when everyone is controlled by the elite in these controlled megacites by facial recognitions and the rifd chip implants in the right and hand forehead there will be no cash at all and no freedom.

[@serpentzachary1340]

@@michaelyoung7171 Singapore is doing that right now they're issuing tracking bracelets to everyone. They've used this crisis really well.

[@anyb5020]

Wrong

[@socialistsolidarity]

Say goodbye to the little privacy you have now. forever.

[@importantname]

and then humans invented plastic surgery

[@exnihilo415]

And sunglasses

[@Wincrest]

Facial recognition combined with a few other measures can reliably identify even people who have plastic surgery since people do not get total face reconstruction and cannot change certain basic characteristics of their face such as the distance between their eyes.

[@jasperlaw4110]

exnihilo415 it’s absolutely astonishing, and you would be surprised to know that artificial intelligence can reconstruct the facial structures of people in disguise. Effort to bamboozle AI system, from sunglasses to plastic surgeries, have been already over taken.

[@exnihilo415]

So what you're saying is, we need AI to bamboozle the other AI systems. Until then I'll walk around with a full face motorcycle helmet on with mirrored visor.

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

High contrast face paint that you change up from day to day will mess up these systems. Of course you could just make it a social taboo to do this just as wearing a ski mask into a bank.

[@TheModernInvestor]

This is going to destroy the world, this won't just be used to buy things or to enter theme parks... How don't people see this? Why would people developers things like this?

[@snowfuca]

what if at an certain point in the future they will alter your access to food and water... you are poor, untrusty, with bad personality scores so why to live? this is the Orwellian system ... the brave new world.

[@serpentzachary1340]

In the future they'll deny you ability to buy and sell because you've said said something that the government and corporations hate. Look at Laura Loomer she's being denied paypal,uber and plenty of other online services.

[@LS-sz7vl]

I want big deathstar so i can destroy world

[@CHAN-xn9eq]

Who else r watching in 2019??

[@Psalm8_DominiRican]

December 2019. Lol

[@serpentzachary1340]

I am watching this in 2020 and this is coming true. The police are trialing this technology in my city.

[@serpentzachary1340]

@Ix Suomi They've used this crisis really well.

[@martinamartins9595]

I hate this facial recognition on phones because I have a twin.. 😂😂😅😅

[@athousandwords5469]

Just waiting for the next Defcon to totally delegitimize this gross error in judgement. We need to stop and ask if we should, before we do.

[@j.t.6700]

"Change our lives" And not for the better.

[@zedeighty]

Holy heck... Nope. No thank you. I'm not having any of that. 2018 is the year I go off-grid. I don't want to be alarmist, but the Nazis would have LOVED to have something like this back in the day.

[@PatrioticAtm]

I waited a year to ask if you went off the grid?

[@joshsmit779]

The Chinese are already using this to ethnically cleanse the Uighur people in the north west of China.

[@serpentzachary1340]

@@joshsmit779 5 eyes is probably secretly trialing these technology right now

[@familyaccount6491]

"...guess your sexuality based on your facial features alone." We're gonna end up with a lot of pissed off men and women 😂😂

[@gadva356]

The future displayed in this video sounds extremely creepy. Especially when you think of a government that tracks everyone or a company that tracks their employees. But now we can still intervene and form a better future. We need to inform our democratic politicians about the problems that would come or are already there with a total automated surveillance. The biggest problem I see is the negativ impact it has on our personal lives and our personality that changes when you know you are being watched. The politicians must pass bills now to protect privacy.

[@serpentzachary1340]

We can start off by voting for techno phobic MP's and lobby MP's to vote no for these technology. That's the beauty of democracy.(Unless you live in Singapore)

[@LS-sz7vl]

Im in your walls

[@sanjogh777]

As a Machine Learning Engineer, I know all of these things are happening right now.

[@celiami6016]

Sanjog Wayne tell more .... do you see these technology going mainstream in a few years?

[@Simonaa]

You cannot stop progress on the fear of privacy? Really? I guess we should put things in balance and see which one of these two is most important for us, as human beings. I am not saying progress is bad, what I'm saying is that if we have to sacrifice something over something else, we should at least be able to choose freely. 1984 much

[@Kevinyock]

"In 2018 we'll be forced to 'face' the future" nice pun.

[@hell9gamer67]

??????????????

[@mylee627]

Omg lololoololllll

[@ggtapz4746]

Lol

[@GangadharGraphics]

Face recognizance is becoming popular day by day. What is working process and i want to know it.

[@exnihilo415]

The future's so bright (and creepy) ya gotta wear shades.

[@julianchee2894]

exnihilo415 hate to break it to you but even shades can’t do much to prevent detection.

[@exnihilo415]

Ok. Full face motorcycle helmet and mirrored visor. How about now?

[@xXxSkyViperxXx]

just need a full 3d printed mask of trump's face

[@mikegrant5584]

You still can be identified with shades lol

[@Patchuchan]

Just a cap fitted with IR leds or a pattern projector.

[@Dmyra]

gonna get a fawkes mask

[@jacobfathersson4712]

What if they have somebody's face but they don't identify? Do they ignore that man and move on to the next "person"?

[@melodyblue8312]

Facial recognition coupled with speech recognition and computer animation will give a.i true awareness with identifying human emotion and however the artificial intelligence is tailored to a given situation. Can even have artificial intelligence to look specifically into someones eyes when having conversation.

[@jacobfathersson4712]

What happens if you don't give them the false face? Will you just drift off to Paradise?

[@JJs_playground]

Minority report

[@jarenong]

Knew apple was supporting the illuminati

[@inforevolution9623]

Why wouldn't it?

[@renees1021]

What happens as we change through age, weight, sickness, etc.?

[@Shahad-ym3gl]

the reason i never downloaded snapchat

[@SSKMusicBeats]

lool you cant escape it

[@serpentzachary1340]

@@SSKMusicBeats I can escape it by scratching my face.

[@ephoenix7]

Where can I find the music

[@jasperlaw4110]

Absolutely astonishing!

[@surferdjnj]

umm no, facial recognition won't change the way we live, that's just completely asinine to even say out loud. Why would anyone want their face to unlock a phone instead of information inside of your head. It's amazing we survived having to find the remote every time we needed to change the channel.

[@somalireader6743]

The narator has an amazing voice

[@kjh311]

"You could use a Guinness, Jon Anderton!"

[@TemplarX2]

This is scary.

[@Calebakeenhughes]

Samsung made facial recognition before Apple

[@JackieWelles]

Caleb Hughes I am Galaxy S8 user and always been Android user but it's actually not true, I would never use Android face unlock because it just 2D scan. Apple really did something different.

[@igboukwu]

This prediction did not end well.

[@saudullahesedullayewi8042]

What if has a faces of twins?

[@Harry.Seengh]

Very helpful for my research article

[@allysonyoung2771]

1984!

[@Profile.4]

Tel Aviv. Imagine my lack of surprise.

[@eduardochacuacriollo4867]

Deep learning powerfull!!!!

[@daveylee4677]

This is a big deal for people in the silicone “Hollywood” mask business. Nothing is perfect in an imperfect world and innocent people are victims of the flaws in this system already. Your Doppelgänger is out there. Hope that He or She is free of warrants.

[@ibtisamm1232]

I love this technology 😍I will use the face recognition in master project 🥰

[@renees1021]

My last day Driver's License mapped my mug.

[@BrotherWoody1]

Gee, two months before we start figuring out the good uses & the bad uses.The technocracy has already determined that this technology will be used to its utmost. Is security more important to Western civilization than liberty? We're expected to assume that it is.

[@HighSpeedNoDrag]

I would surmise that Singapore and or Hong Kong are "miles" ahead of China in the F.R. Tech Realm.

[@ankhenaten2]

*as a doctor i can tell you that faces start to sag and droop after 40 and lip distance also even chin shape changes from child to adult size also nose shapes change from child to adult ..this technology is a flop from the start*

[@2rs2pure]

ankhenaten2 constant scanning of people's faces. I would believe the facial recognition things would take these sort of things into account.

[@manictiger]

And then they capture enough datapoints to make an algorithm that can reliably predict all of that. And then all the critical thinkers are toast, the second real tyranny shows up. We're playing Russian roulette. One of these generations of politicians is eventually going to be the round in the chamber. And it's pointed at our heads.

[@joshsmit779]

Building a facial recognition system is pretty easy

[@stas_shulepov]

No one has the right to insult

[@nicolegg1234]

quien mas viene por que tiene que hacer un resumen de esto :> digo para no ser la unica

[@kalik6]

change is only beneficial if its a change for good. The word change should't excite people as much as to make sure they pay attention to what direction the change goes.

[@radiotv624]

That’s gonna suck if you have an intrusive identical twin

[@korrythatsme1356]

It’s here👀

[@Leon-pn6rb]

This video is Sponsored by *Apple* "Sell your Car and Buy our expensive phone whose battery lasts for less than a day ! Also , you would lose your privacy ! Steve Jobs !"

[@pmshah1946]

Actually I did sell my 2 year old 1973 Pontiac Lemans for $ 1,000/-. Would not have paid for the stupid phone.

[@fernandomiranda765]

o doubt that steve jobs has sonething to do with de iphone x.

[@joeyluvgirls]

Bad enough there is mirrors all over the place. Carry id. Now face recognition. Hard out here for ugly folks

[@Vamsibl]

In Coming years Privacy would become major concern that we can't escape already google and Facebook are into the life of all people then think of future what will be the implications OMG !

[@ulysse21]

Not everybody. The only facebook I had, I filled it with fake information. Nothing true about me

[@VertegrezNox]

What's the point of security, without private ownership? (privacy) Your logic is flawed

[@joshsmit779]

it's not text, it's a vector

[@LinkWave290]

I don't want facial recognition everywhere. :/

[@ggtapz4746]

Theres one thing im never gonna use face regon for my to unlock my bank to get money what if u have a twin that looks just like u or somebody has ur card and he looks like u. I dont know how to spell it so i just said regon

[@Mrachsohallo]

Accurarcy alone doesnt mean anything. You need the ratio from True-Positive False-Positives and False-Negatives to get a decent evaluation wheather a system is sucessfull in what its doing

[@jamesfadden7420]

This is very big brother

[@NeilKudro]

The bad guys will simply disguise their faces in so many ways. Technology is a great tool that can lead law enforcement, military, and/or intelligence analysts in the right direction, as far as an ongoing investigation, but ultimately humans will have to make the decisions, not technology.

[@pmshah1946]

How about real like "V for Vendetta" type mask use? Screw the government. Better still don't use mobile phone !

[@diego81fer]

minority report

[@JuancharroVlogs]

1984

[@generalflaviusaetius1997]

Person of Interest

[@notsure7404]

It was a very underrated film.

[@arriesone1]

If you’re a good law-abiding person then what does it matter if a machine knows who you are? Shops will target you but you don’t have to buy what they push on you. The authorities will identify you but if you haven’t done anything bad who cares? BUT it will be very, very bad if it gets into the wrong hands for illegal/unethical purposes which will happen before too long, if it hasn’t already, for here we are in 2018.

[@RetroMarkyRM]

What if I am a law abiding citizen and want to have an affair (which although unethical, is my right!?) Second, the authorities make up what's right and wrong so who is going to monitor them OR are you claiming they have some divine authority? THINK!!!!!

[@hell9gamer67]

This is the gaming science

[@doloresumbridge3801]

Twins exists...

[@isaiaho8964]

Who said so

[@juiceitup7915]

Facebook is already on this

[@serpentzachary1340]

Yeah they're tracking us right now. Our online activities even our physical location is tracked by them. We should stop giving big tech power!

[@antoniomora1906]

Aiden Pierce

[@dj_laundry_list]

Android has featured face unlock since 2012

[@kevinlacoursiere684]

my Toshiba Satellite laptop has this feature as well...it's about 10 years old now.

[@bastiatintheandes4958]

Welcome the industry of smart masks.

[@IamMrkay]

😮 iPhone X

[@emperorpirk2003]

Too bad

[@purplelucrezia]

If this happens, 2018 will be a great year for plastic surgery.

[@johngordon1175]

This is minority report all over again that is not only in China it has been in the gambling capitals all over the world and is now in passenger ports of entry in most countries. China uses it to find people it’s interested in so also does the US and UK

[@OldGuy70s]

Were almost 2021 now..... B.S......

[@damo87araimo]

Shades and hats wont work. Can you recognise your friends wearing shades and hats. if you can, then the AI can.

[@nathanielcopperfish912]

Dystopian Society here we come!!!

[@Benjackalope]

Dang, this could be another gateway to new governments becoming tyrannical.

[@doloresumbridge3801]

Not that bad ?

[@taragragg400]

Doppelgangers

[@michellewhittaker2135]

Dumb we are I I choose to go elsewhere they probably put camera on a tree soon only then we realize how dumb we've been I put dark tan on and a Charlie Chaplin moustache and stick a couple of fingers up into the air silly isn't it well I can be silly as well daft as a brush

[@anyb5020]

Do not put your picture online!!!

[@cooperfranklin2455]

Why?

[@nickfahmi71]

Be able to guess out sexuality? Omg no!!!!

[@job4hire903]

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[@tendreaudacieux]

The rules of use of facial recognition SHOULD ALREADY have been discussed and REGULATED..... Now it will be our fate to get lame answers such as : " Too late ..... " ....... We do not need a brave new world !

[@dinizen]

looks like shit is about to hit the fan..

[@mikepeine3898]

100,000 children never make it home from school every year . FRS could make sure they make it !

[@Peace.]

Shows you their priorities

[@valencia0113]

Sadly

[@oxymoran1931]

"We cannot stop progress over the fear of privacy." Brilliant! Start with Israel then!

[@DizmaTV]

I think facial recognition is stupid. What they haven't addressed is the fact that someone can hold a picture up of your face. This is really not secure

[@rob4214]

Aaron Barkla ok so to stop surveillance recognising your face you are going to walk around holding a picture up wherever you go. That's hardly realistic. Also the latest facial recognition on phones gets 3D information from infrared sensors, that can't be fooled by a picture.

[@JackieWelles]

What u are talking is 2D scan, Apple using 3D scan. You can't unlock phone with 2D photo

[@job4hire903]

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[@WotchTheWerldBern]

Every time you use your bank card or credit card to make small frequent purchases, you are casting a vote toward digital currency and complete government control. Want to sell stuff at your garage sale? Not without the guv's approval and taxation. Want to barter an item? Want to pay a kid $10 to mow your lawn or babysit for a couple hours? Not possible without big brother taking some off the top.

[@ireneuszpyc6684]

government controls you anyway; since the day you were born; they hire an army of Ph.D.s - Joe Average cannot escape; an example: land tax means that private citizens do not really own land - government owns all land, and you rent your little pad from the gov.

[@yojiviriak675]

Gay and straight faces aren't different. That's stupid

[@2rs2pure]

Vijoy Kairi perhaps not. But there is already AI facial reading machines that can tell with over a 90% accuracy if one is gay or not. I am gay myself and I would find this very concerning depending on what kind of society you live in.

[@alvinlcs9557]

What is Israel ?

[@gouachecesar3748]

This countries doesn't exist !!!

[@marvinochieng6295]

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[@NareshUgaonkar]

Nah it won't change anything it still can't distinguishe between twins and it won't for a long time