All Blog Posts Tagged 'Facial' (11)

‘Facedeals’ scans your face to customize deals

Adan Salazar

Infowars.com

August 14, 2012

“Check in with your face” is the motto a U.S. marketing company is using to preface its new face scan deal-linking technology.

Redpepper, out of Nashville, TN, has developed technology that says it will save you money, however, the methods engaged are much more intrusive than your standard grocery store coupon.

The process starts when a “Facedeals”…

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Added by UnLearn on August 14, 2012 at 12:42pm — No Comments

Want To Disable Facebook Facial Recognition? Read This

Facebook is acquiring facial recognition firm Face.com, for an estimated $60 million.

Facebook already uses Face.com's facial recognition technology to help it put a name to faces in photos uploaded to the social network. Now, with the…

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Added by UnLearn on June 25, 2012 at 12:56pm — No Comments

SceneTap In San Francisco: Local Bars To Install Facial Recognition Software

This article comes to us courtesy of SF Weekly's The Snitch.

By Erin Sherbert

Last year, San Franciscans were pretty freaked out when they learned that some of their favorite watering holes had…

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Added by UnLearn on May 15, 2012 at 10:22am — No Comments

FBI to launch nationwide facial recognition service

Aliya Sternstein

Nextgov.com

October 8, 2011

The FBI by mid-January will activate a nationwide facial recognition service in select states that will allow local police to identify unknown subjects in photos, bureau officials told Nextgov.

The federal…

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Added by UnLearn on October 8, 2011 at 9:01am — No Comments

“5 Unexpected Places You Can Be Tracked With Facial Recognition Technology”

“5 Unexpected Places You Can Be Tracked

With Facial Recognition Technology”

by Tana Ganeva…

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Added by UnLearn on September 3, 2011 at 3:57pm — No Comments

Minority Report facial recognition advertising has arrived

ExtremeTech

Facial recognition by store windows and posters, Minority Report-style, has now started slowly seeping into society. This technology, as it stands, has the ability to tailor digital displays to whoever stops…

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Added by UnLearn on August 29, 2011 at 9:33am — No Comments

Law enforcement to use iPhone face scanner app

By David Edwards

Law enforcement agencies around the country will soon be able to use their smartphones to identify subjects.

BI2′s Mobile Offender Recognition and Information System (MORIS) attaches to an iPhone or other smartphone and uses biometrics from an iris, facial or fingerprint scan to determine a person’s…

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Added by UnLearn on July 27, 2011 at 9:46am — No Comments

Facebook in new privacy row over facial recognition feature

Charles Arthur

Guardian

June 8, 2011

Facebook has come under fire for quietly expanding the availability of technology to automatically identify people in photos, renewing concerns about its privacy practices.

The feature, which the giant social…

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Added by UnLearn on June 8, 2011 at 7:58pm — No Comments

School installs £9,000 facial recognition cameras to stop students turning up late

Daily Mail

October 4, 2010…

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Added by UnLearn on October 5, 2010 at 8:30am — No Comments

Facial Profiling

Will face-recognition technology get an accused killer off the hook?

By Peter Jamison Wednesday, Jul 14 2010

The science of biometrics is exactly what it sounds like — measurement of the living body, including quantification of such physical characteristics as fingerprints, eyes, and voice.…

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Added by UnLearn on July 14, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments