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Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying
With Carnegie Mellon’s cloud-centric new mobile app, the process of matching a casual snapshot with a person’s online identity takes less than a minute. Tools like PittPatt and other cloud-based facial recognition services rely on finding publicly available pictures of you online, whether it’s a profile image for social networks like Facebook and Google Plus or from something more official from a company website or a college athletic portrait. In their most recent round of facial recognition studies, researchers at Carnegie Mellon were able to not only match unidentified profile photos from a dating website (where the vast majority of users operate pseudonymously) with positively identified Facebook photos, but also match pedestrians on a North American college campus with their online identities.
The repercussions of these studies go far beyond putting a name with a face; researchers Alessandro Acquisti, Ralph Gross, and Fred Stutzman anticipate that such technology represents a leap forward in the convergence of offline and online data and an advancement of the “augmented reality” of complementary lives. With the use of publicly available Web 2.0 data, the researchers can potentially go from a snapshot to a Social Security number in a matter of minutesThe Internet never forgets a face. Read more at The Atlantic
(Source: theatlantic)
(via combat--wombat)
i got introduced to this photographers work by a friend here in Denmark. totally the most wacky serious stuff i have laid my eyes on for a long time . thanks
INTERVIEW: Asger Carlsen | Tepsic Magazine
one of the coolest artists i’ve had the pleasure of publishing in my magazine.
"It is the great paradox of the modern world that at the very time when the world decided that people should not be coerced about their form of religion, it also decided that they should be coerced about their form of education."
(via liberationfrequency)
”Bakunin maintains that it is the state which has created capital, that the capitalist has his capital only by the grace of the state. As, therefore, the state is the chief evil, it is above all the state which must be done away with and then capitalism will go to blazes of itself. We, on the contrary, say: Do away with capital, the concentration of the means of production in the hands of the few, and the state will fall of itself.”
-Friedrich Engels on the age old Marxist/Anarchist divide
(via liberationfrequency)
i am an emtional being, so when i found out bout this, i knew i had to share it-
Emotion Circumplex by Plutchik is mesmerizing. Plutchik first proposed his cone-shaped model (3D) or the wheel model (2D) in 1980 to describe how emotions were related.
Read more about his theory of emotion over on Wikipedia.
