The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Business of Your Face Facial recognition software is a powerful technology that poses serious threats to civil liberties. It’s also a booming business. Hype cycle link & graphic below the fold.
Huge FBI facial recognition database flawed: GAO audit The FBI’s facial recognition database of 411 million photos includes some 30 million criminal mugshots, drivers’ license pictures from 16 US states, 140 million images from visa applications by foreign nationals and 6.7 million photos of individuals detained by US forces abroad, but lacks adequate safeguards for …
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Image Search: Getting Better and Better [Not Really] Image search means having software which can figure out from a digital photo that a cow is a cow. In more complex photos, the software identifies what it can. I recall one demonstration which recognized me as a 20 year old criminal. Close but no cigar.
And the surveillance state just keeps oozing out across our lives like a toxic smog. It will soon be possible to track any person, almost anywhere. There is already no problem turning on your phone’s camera, or microphone. Moving through any public space will result in multiple images, which are keyed to every electronic interaction …
This is wonderful news. One of those little social acupunctures that allows the 99 per cent to speak out effectively — don’t buy their stuff. Go to: http://www.buycott.com/ to download. I urge all my readers to do so and shop accordingly. New Phone app Allows Users to Boycott Koch Brothers and Monsanto Products ARTURO GARCIA …
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Microsoft Open Sources Artificial Intelligence Toolkit Microsoft says its toolkit is “more efficient” than other solutions used to create deep learning models. The software giant has open sourced its Computational Network Toolkit, or CNTK, which the company says is “more efficient” than four other popular solutions used to create deep learning models for things like …
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