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Face Search Engine Anyone Can Use Is Alarmingly Accurate

by ystad on 5/29/22, 12:06 PM with 11 comments

• by Doches on 5/29/22, 12:34 PM

  There's an awful lot of hand-wringing in this article -- and I can't say that I disagree. This is alarming technology, the stuff of a mid-tier SF dystopian novel. But while the article is heavy on the alarm it offers...no solutions, no suggestions, nothing beyond a vague hope that some regulatory agency will require PimEyes to...confirm their users' identity (KYC, in other words).

  Clearly the fact that PimEyes is headquartered in Dubai escaped the editor's geopolitical understanding -- this exists! It's a thing! We can't just bury our heads in the sand and hope the US government buries it under that greatest of American exports, crippling bureaucracy.

  To be fair, I don't have any solutions either other than "wait for my own generation to die off." But I'd love to hear actionable (or even blue-sky hypothetical!) ideas for how we can deal with our rapidly disappearing right to privacy. I don't think we can reverse this clock -- I'm not even sure we'd want to! -- but is there anything we can do to, I don't know, ameliorate the consequences somehow?

• by car_analogy on 5/29/22, 12:41 PM

  Alarmingly accurate? In other articles, mostly about AI bias, the NY Times was alarmed by inaccuracy.