> We later discover my thick-rimmed glasses are the problem. It's something easily fixed by adjusting the system settings, Simon tells me.<p>Facial recognition is a hard problem; allowing for thick-rimmed glasses is <i>not</i> 'easily' fixed.
So, how would a reformed thief go in to buy basic goods once this becomes more widespread?<p>Do we no longer believe that someone can pay off their debt to society and become a useful member of said society?
I wonder if the CV Dazzle[1] style will take off in the UK. Maybe we'll finally get the exact cyberpunk future promised us by Gibson, etc.<p>[1] <a href="https://cvdazzle.com/" rel="nofollow">https://cvdazzle.com/</a>
I wonder if places using systems such as this will have to declare it plainly?<p>If they do, seems like there might be some backlash, with people preferring not to go to businesses starting down the path of using this sort of tech and spending more time in those which could, but choose not to, use it.<p>Assuming of course it doesn't end up just completely ubiquitous like web ads etc, the market <i>could</i> force tech like this into the high-risk margins, i.e. high-end jewellery shops etc, rather than it eventually popping up in every pub and high-street shop.<p>I will say though, having written that, I do think it's likelier it'll just end up ubiquitous.
Widespread facial recognition is going to add a whole new slew of data for GCHQ/NSA to data mine. Not to mention advertisers tracking exactly where you walk in shopping malls and shops.<p>From my understanding, UK law requires that you be informed if subject to facial recognition, but, analogous to online tracking/advertising, does not require your permission to begin it.<p>Sigh, <i>gets out my rimmed glasses</i>
What happens to a face after it's in a database, or multiple databases, gets arrested, spends time in jail, and then goes straight? Will it be as impossible to get off these databases as it is to get off the no fly list?
I wonder what the data protection implications of this are? I presume there are many. You're storing personal information on people, possibly transfering it to another businesses, analysing it and using it to make decisions....