The Unsettling Future of Facial Recognition | PhotoShelter Blog

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The Unsettling Future of Facial Recognition – PhotoShelter Blog

  The first time I witnessed a camera detect a face to aid the autofocus system, I was amazed. In part because the technology seemed magical and the highlighted rectangle tracking faces seemed like science fiction; in part because I seem to possess a talent for taking out-of-focus photos. The first time I used Apple Aperture’s facial…

via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2015/11/the-unsettling-future-of-facial-recognition/

The implications for photography are profound. How do you protect anonymity of your subjects (everyone from refugees to child beauty pageant contestant) when facial identification is so readily available? What if we’re mis-identified because of the way we stand or walk? The FBI reportedly has 52 million faces, but Facebook undoubtedly has hundreds of millions – all pre-identified, and relatively easy to link to other information like home address