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What happens if the facial recognition cameras get it wrong? Or the “visual microphone” detects the wrong sound? Or the emotion-reading or crime-predicting technology of the near future is just quackery, designed to frame anyone the government wants to convict? Sadly, this isn’t sci-fi fantasy; it’s the present and we’re already living through it. Just ask Steve Talley…
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5 Mind-Blowing Technologies (That the Government Will Use for Spying)
4 Ways The Crime Lab Can Frame You
New arrest warrant issued for man who bank teller said police wrongly arrested for robbery
REVEALED: The TSA’s New Computerized ‘Facial and Emotional’ Recognition System
With the video-audio conversion stuff, I’m highly skeptical.
It would seem the easiest way to get around this would be to inject extra music or background noise into any situation where this technique might be used – remember running the shower in all of those spy movies to defeat bugs?
In their demo (assuming it wasn’t faked), the audio from the high-speed camera (framerate, please?) was severely degraded with a single sound source. If that music was playing over a conversation, the conversation would be unintelligible. No matter how many fractional pixels of plant movement you capture, multiple noises would intermodulate across that surface, making it nearly impossible to separate one from the rest. And at the standard 60 frame/sec capture rate, the resolution will be very much worse, as the demo shows. If this isn’t an outright fabricated technology, it is of limited usefulness, unless plotters are holding conversations in anechoic chambers.
Play Led Zepplin when you discuss your secrets, and you need never fear this technology…
Actors are over-rated in our current society already. Now, the acting skills(aka deception, illusion)are even more valuable, especially to criminals, since we all now have a robotic audience to convince to suspend disbelief.
It’s “Minority Report” come to fruition. Who didn’t see that?
Yep, I can hardly wait for the media-glossed, Hollywood-ified “revolution”, under whatever name given and under whatever rationale presented. People will seem to get some of what they can be convinced they actually wanted. In fact, those circumstances may be as good as it gets in this world.
I believe it will be that way because it always is. History is a hard thing to beat.