4 thoughts on “A crashed ad reveals embedded facial recognition system at work”

1. I’m not sure why this is a bad thing (other than the fact that it crashed). If you walk into a store sales people can tell you are a man or woman, young or old, wearing glasses or not, smiling or not. Any human sales person would use those signals and many others to sell you something. What is wrong with doing the same with a computer?

2. How did the ad get all that information from your computer? Probably with a webcam, right? Did the guy enable the webcam the whole time?

3. I just looked at the picture again, looks like that was not someone’s laptop, but a kiosk at the pizza shop. Yea that’s very different than what I originally had in mind.. Is a restaurant considered private property, and what are the laws regarding implicit/explicit consent for on-site surveillance/filming/photographing for any purpose?

4. “Yet another example of why we can’t have nice things anymore.”
   This.