Tag: facial recognition

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 2/7/19

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Facial Recognition Update 2019

“Imagine a government tracking everywhere you walked over the past month without your permission or knowledge. Imagine a database of everyone who attended a political rally that constitutes the very essence of free speech…” Words of some tin-hat wearing technophobe? Nope, the words of Brad Smith, President of Microsoft, talking about the potential of uncontrolled use of facial recognition technology, a technology whose uses he and many others feel requires government oversight. Here’s why.

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 6/2/16

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Former Attorney General Eric Holder recently said that he thought Edward Snowden had done a public service for Americans and generated a conversation that we needed to have about privacy and security. A recent vote in the Senate Intelligence Committee that would allow the FBI to gain access to information about our emails without a court order, and a new patent for a police cruiser light bar that would include facial recognition capability might make us wonder where that conversation is ending up.

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 11/8/12

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Computers have gotten very good at recognizing faces. That can be very helpful in, for example, tagging photos on your own computer. But the same technology can be used in lots of other ways, too. And for better or worse, it will change our relationship to the world we live in. Here’s why.

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 8/25/11

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Computers are getting remarkably good at identifying faces. That can be very cool for automatically tagging the people in the photos you upload to your computer, but maybe not quite as cool when Facebook, Google, and your local police department start doing the same thing.