• Google might scan your face and give you a $5 gift card for it – TechSpot

  “”I don’t really care about data privacy because I think it’s all an illusion anyway.”

  It’s interesting to see how this encounter also reflects the general behavior of a majority of people when it comes to privacy. Although user data has long been a gold mine for companies, would it be more acceptable if they started paying their users in exchange for it?”

  Tags: ITGS, privacy, google, data mining

  • – By dr tech

• How facial recognition has turned summer camp into a dystopia for campers, parents, counsellors and photographers (but not facial recognition vendors) / Boing Boing

  Tags: ITGS, facial recognition, dystopia, control, privacy, security

• Regulator looking at use of facial recognition at King’s Cross site

  Tags: ITGS, facial recognition, anonymity, privacy and anonymity, politics and government, policiesandstandards

• Amazon says its facial recognition can now identify fear

  “The tech giant revealed updates to the controversial tool on Monday that include improving the accuracy and functionality of its face analysis features such as identifying gender, emotions and age range.”

  Tags: ITGS, facial recognition, security, control, privacy and anonymity, relibaility, false positive

  • – By dr tech

• View of Urban Surveillance and Panopticism: will we recognize the facial recognition society?

  Tags: ITGS, facial, recognition, surveillance, society, security

• Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath, says academic | Science | The Guardian

  “When Fry returned to London, she realised how mathematicians, computer engineers and physicists are so used to working on abstract problems that they rarely stop to consider the ethics of how their work might be used”

  Tags: ITGS, ethics, maths, tech, hippocratic oath, society, people and machines

  • – By dr tech

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