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Article #624558Re: Computers, anyone?
From: Questor
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2018 07:02
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2018 07:02
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On Wed, 04 Jul 2018 08:26:54 -0400, Bud Frede <fr...@mouse-potato.com> wrote: >Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> writes: >> On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 08:55:01 -0400 >> Bud Frede <fr...@mouse-potato.com> wrote: >>> Perhaps we should really be nostalgic for the days when we had more >>> privacy? >> >> Privacy isn't that hard just don't use the internet :) Works just >> as well with today's multi-gigahertz machines as it did with a 4MHz Z80. > >I wasn't think of simply using the Internet. I was also thinking of how >so many more entities are collecting data about us now, and how readily >accessible that data can be. > >Much of the privacy that we took for granted years ago no longer >exists. You can't even walk to the store in some areas without your >presence being noted by any number of systems. > >You certainly can't go to a political or religious rally anymore and >expect to remain anonymous. You can't even stop to listen to someone on >a soapbox haranguing people in the park without the possibility that >your presence will be noted and recorded. > >I've seen a number of demos of how good facial recognition is, and I've >heard of projects to use a person's gait or other characteristics to >identify them if their face isn't visible. Facial recognition has intolerably high failure rates for minorities, in part because the "training" data sets do not have sufficient examples. I am waiting for big, floppy hats to become a widespread unisex fashion trend. Or we could all become Juggalos.
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