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Facial Recognition is About to Be Everywhere: Are You Ready?

August 21, 2017 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

Advanced new facial recognition software and hardware is making use of the technologies available in all sorts of new ways.

Facial recognition is popping up everywhere. If you’ve been travelling overseas lately you may have come home to facial scans at Customs and Border Patrol. And if you’re using any social media services, undoubtedly you’ve been tagged or recognized by the facial recognition software built into the service.

Soon facial recognition could be used to do things like open up your electronic devices. Imagine the security of decryption that only responds to your face. Barring some unlikely event like a kidnapping a la the Harrison Ford movie Firewall, the data on your device should be ultra secure.

Christopher Mims writes at The Wall Street Journal about the new technology:

Using our faces to unlock things could soon become routine, rather than the purview of spies and superheroes.

Qualcomm Inc., QCOM -0.67% an industry leader in mobile device chips, recently introduced its Spectra imaging system, which can extract depth information from objects including faces. The company plans to include the technology in a forthcoming generation of its flagship Snapdragon mobile processors. Meanwhile, when firmware forApple Inc.’s forthcoming HomePod speaker leaked online, developers spotted cluessuggesting that an upcoming iPhone might have similar depth perception and facial recognition.

This technology is different from, but related to, the facial recognition increasingly built into security cameras around the world, which cross-references pictures of your face against databases of millions. That tech is growing in capability and in use—especially in China, where its applications range from surveillance to payments.

Fortunately, your phone’s camera has a few advantages over surveillance equipment. It doesn’t need to spot you in a crowd. It just needs to distinguish one face—yours—and it can do that very well, since you’re not some shadowy figure captured in bad light. From a foot or two away, your phone can quickly capture a detailed image.

Read more from Mims here.

The question that must be asked is, what is the outer-bound of comfort with technological intrusion into your life? At what point does the usefulness of facial recognition technologies become a burden to those who employ it?

The reality is, unless you’re willing to go to some extreme stylistic measures with your hair and makeup (see video below), facial recognition is something all people will need to become accustomed to.

The Rise of Counter Surveillance Fashion

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E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. His focus at all times is on preparing clients and readers for “Times Like These.” E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998.

E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH, NH, where he completed course-work in Practical and Defensive Handgun, Conceal Carry Pistol, Shotguns, Precision Scope Rifle and Kidnapping Prevention.

E.J. plays a Yamaha Recording Custom drum set with Zilldjian cymbals. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zildjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart (RIP) of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris.

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