Interstellar_1 to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoA Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Techwww.wired.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up1157arrow-down113file-text
arrow-up1144arrow-down1external-linkA Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Techwww.wired.comInterstellar_1 to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square4fedilinkfile-text
A student investigation at the University of Waterloo uncovered a system that scanned countless undergrads without consent.
minus-squareTb0n3@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months ago“Yup. That’s a face.” It doesn’t have to have identity recognition or save any images to be useful. From what I heard it only activated the fancy stuff if it saw a human face. You can run that with little processing required. It saves energy.
“Yup. That’s a face.”
It doesn’t have to have identity recognition or save any images to be useful. From what I heard it only activated the fancy stuff if it saw a human face. You can run that with little processing required. It saves energy.