Google Glass App Recognizes 450K Sex Offenders

While I think this is interesting, I feel this technology can extend to being able to identify actual people on the fly, which is rather scary.
 
Good. Now you'll know if a perv is watching your wife or kids when you walk by every day. Not that you can do anything about it... LOL
 
...thinking about it, this would really help me at work and meetings. I wouldn't have to remember anyone's name!
 
Damn, yeah this tech definitely has the potential to push just about anybody's privacy alarm buttons. Imagine instantly having access to all public information on anybody you pass.
 
Good thing Google Glass will likely be a monumental flop.

Recognizing sex offenders and all are a great thought, but it just shows the scary things tech like this will do.
 
Tych-0 said:
Damn, yeah this tech definitely has the potential to push just about anybody's privacy alarm buttons. Imagine instantly having access to all public information on anybody you pass.
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the problem is the expectation of privacy with said public information. :p
 
Knowing that in the US 18 year olds are getting labeled as "sex offenders" for having sex with their 17 year old girlfriends fills me great confidence.

Next? An app for recognizing evil terrists! It's inevitable.
 
Tych-0 said:
Damn, yeah this tech definitely has the potential to push just about anybody's privacy alarm buttons. Imagine instantly having access to all public information on anybody you pass.
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What is this privacy thing of which you speak ... sounds bad ... we must destroy it now :p :D

Maybe we will just get the Google version of the famous scene from Amazon Women on the Moon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o04L3ptIkjI
 
Cali3350 said:
Good thing Google Glass will likely be a monumental flop.

Recognizing sex offenders and all are a great thought, but it just shows the scary things tech like this will do.
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Fear is a great motivator for any purchase. Look at gun sales or all of the $1000+ batches of emergency food supplies Costco sells on an annual basis. I'm not saying Glass will be a huge success, but fear can be a major sales driver.
 
I don't believe that sex offenders have a right to privacy. They should have a tattoo on their forehead.

Actual sex offenders that is... not the 17/18 boy girl issues, where one of the parents goes off the deep end.
 
Tych-0 said:
Damn, yeah this tech definitely has the potential to push just about anybody's privacy alarm buttons. Imagine instantly having access to all public information on anybody you pass.
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That is where this is going.

Think law enforcement cops will no longer need to run to a computer to look you up.

They can do it on their face.
 
So this is used in the wild, then Big Bro taps into your glasshole (hyuk... taps your glasshole) whenever they want or maybe everyone's at once in order to build a real-time interactive map of where people are at nearly all times, like a twisted Sim City combined with the 'cell phone VR' in The Dark Knight.

If ubiquitous real-time public facial recognition becomes a thing, I'm going to start a mask-making business that sells funny/scary/celebrity/etc. masks specifically for the purpose of defeating this kind of shit and become a trillionaire.
 
We've entered an era in which there is no point at which we are not on camera. And it happened in less than a decade. Privacy is dead. Nobody understands the implications as the changes were so rapid and uncontrolled. Expect fights over privacy ad infinitum.
 
climber07 said:
Good. Now you'll know if a perv is watching your wife or kids when you walk by every day. Not that you can do anything about it... LOL
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You don't have to be a pedophile or rapist to get on the sex offender registry. You can just be an old guy watering your lawn in your underwear and have a neighbor complain the kid saw you over the fence.

In another case a 15 year old girl took naked pics of HERSELF on her phone, and was put on the sex offender registry based on child pornography distribution charges.

If you're Eddie Murphy and you get caught picking up a prostitute, that can also land you on the registry.

If you're having fun at Mardi Gras and flash your boobs and someone snaps a pic and reports you, you can get put on the list.

If you have sex with your non-biological sister that can put you on the registry since its technically incest.

There was even a 13 year old who was put on the sex offender registry (they are fighting it, not sure of the outcome) for hugging a female classmate too much.

The sex offender list is such a joke.
 
blitzkommando said:
We've entered an era in which there is no point at which we are not on camera. And it happened in less than a decade. Privacy is dead. Nobody understands the implications as the changes were so rapid and uncontrolled. Expect fights over privacy ad infinitum.
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Which is perfectly fine IMO, except that we have to have laws against:
1) Storing that information on a large database with too much personal info to identify the person (taking a pic of an anonymous crowd is fine, taking a pic of a crowd where if you mouse over the person or do a google search it pops up their name and address is NOT cool).
2) The government collecting and storing this information to identify individuals via camera (say red light cameras that could track you based on facial recognition).

So some schmuck has a dashcam? No big deal.

Google integrates facial recognition software with a large Google+/Facebook database to match that with a person on a smart camera... NOT COOL!
 
I'd have no problem with the sex offender registry if it actually WORKED.

If you get caught diddling the neighborhood 13 year old, or some other gross violation of "normal' than sure, stick em on there for the world to see.

I get caught peeing an an alley at 3am outside of a bar, suddenly I'm the equivalent of a child rapist? Sorry, NO.

Same thing with kids who screw around, fact of life: 15/16/17 year olds are going to have sex with each other, putting them on a list for life when no real harm is done... waste of energy all around for society.
 
collegeboy69us said:
I'd have no problem with the sex offender registry if it actually WORKED.

If you get caught diddling the neighborhood 13 year old, or some other gross violation of "normal' than sure, stick em on there for the world to see.

I get caught peeing an an alley at 3am outside of a bar, suddenly I'm the equivalent of a child rapist? Sorry, NO.

Same thing with kids who screw around, fact of life: 15/16/17 year olds are going to have sex with each other, putting them on a list for life when no real harm is done... waste of energy all around for society.
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That's kinda the problem I see with this, it's kinda disturbing, like a digital witchhunt, maybe people would end up harassing someone because he got drunk and streaked in the woods in college, obviously that guy should be in the same category as a serial rapist.
 
I see this type of thing being real popular with law enforcement.

The perv in me likes being able to pick the women in the crowd that have questionable ethics and prone to making poor life choices, which was the mainstay of my early dating life. :eek:
 
I see another problem with Google Glass type technology, and where it's going to go. You think you run into some fake ass people in your life now?

/Cue google glass.

Complete strangers who have never seen you before will walk up to you somewhere, at a bar, on a car lot, on the street, and suddenly they'll be talking about your dogs, or the car sitting home in your garage (which they've never seen), or the bbq you had last week, or some other personal information. Salesmen, perps, con artists, players, everyone will be running games on the unsuspecting.

And you know, it's an eventuality that this type of technology will be sold to the military/law enforcement/homeland security industrial complex. Bulls will walk around identifying every citizen they see. They'll know your criminal background history, they'll reference your electronic data, maybe even your forum opinions or political affiliations.

You'll drive through a toll booth and the operator will identify everyone visible in the vehicle. There are so many ways to abuse this technology.

/I don't even want to think about the butterfly chaos effect something like this would cause in a country like Iraq in the hands our military or our intelligence network. I can envision a wildfire of chaos, false arrests, false accusations, murders, collateral murders, entire social networks assumed guilty by remote associations and the murkiness of continual war.

It's only a matter of time.
 
Yes, I can see law enforcement being real interested in this, but it's got to get a lot faster.
 
Wonder if it's going to recognize all the other nerds that will be wearing these glasses.
 
While it's intended use is innocent, the ability to modify it and abuse it is so huge. These things always come in the guise of it's a good thing. But, people see that good thing and don't consider the consequences of things that could happen if they use it for 'other' purposes. So much could go wrong with such a positive initial development.

Splitting the atom - tons of untapped energy... Oh, and the whole destroy cities in a single bomb thing, too....
 
Racheakt said:
The perv in me likes being able to pick the women in the crowd that have questionable ethics and prone to making poor life choices, which was the mainstay of my early dating life. :eek:
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Look for tats and a smell of tobacco... if she smokes, she pokes. Don't need google glass for that.
 
So basically you can feed in anyone's picture into the app that they created in this article and have the glass always scanning for them.
 
heatlesssun said:
It really is like that TV show my wife loves, Person of Interest.
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We were talking about that yesterday at work. We went to the Microsoft Retail Experience Center, and they were talking about all the ways they can track you within a store to target you for ads, what people buy more of, what they are looking at, pick up, etc.. They can do so much with a phone, face recognition, etc.. You give up your privacy just walking into the store. Person of Interest had the part where it can lead to abuse - there is so much potential to see/hear/locate/track people based on the infrastructure that's already out there. Just tie into all these different places. Sad part is, that's it's already implemented in a lot of places. :/ Just so many ways to find out your shopping habits and ties a face/phone to your loyalty card or even debit if they wanted to. It's scary. Right now, it's used for shopping metrics and advertising and such. Doesn't take much to abuse that and go further, though.
 
No edit. Damn. Forgot to mention that they can do all this without you knowing. Ultrasonic sound, LED lighting (different pulses for different locations, all without the eye noticing), WiFi AP's triangulating your position, cameras.... They even had Kinects that could see exactly what you were looking at on the shelf, but they were in the ceiling. Didn't know until he pointed them out. No warnings at stores, no signs. It's just done without your knowledge.
 
Ur_Mom said:
While it's intended use is innocent, the ability to modify it and abuse it is so huge. These things always come in the guise of it's a good thing. But, people see that good thing and don't consider the consequences of things that could happen if they use it for 'other' purposes. So much could go wrong with such a positive initial development.

Splitting the atom - tons of untapped energy... Oh, and the whole destroy cities in a single bomb thing, too....
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I'll just leave these hear..........

Watch: Practices of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, Parts 1 - 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tkRFP7cUXA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl8EmQK5kow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kot1THqBII



Then, there is Hanford.

Watch:"US Nuclear Crisis "Office Space Style" (Hanford)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCM9CCK7gks


Watch: "Hanford officials hid leak evidence from advisory panel 5-22-2013"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HJujD1vHJ4

How hot is Hanford after 5 decades of Plutonium production?

Watch:"Hanford Leaking Strontium-90 is "boiling the material around it"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuF4inNFcCQ


Just the tip of the iceberg.
 
And reading this thread also helps to identify sex offenders :p
 
Ducman69 said:
Look for tats and a smell of tobacco... if she smokes, she pokes. Don't need google glass for that.
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Yep, that was my general go-to, smoking with visible tats. Poor impulse control and risky behavior, means i could be nee next band choice they make.

The Police record search would just help with "do I buy her a drink or offer a 20?" question.

Why yes, my younger self was quite the pig.
 
dgz said:
Knowing that in the US 18 year olds are getting labeled as "sex offenders" for having sex with their 17 year old girlfriends fills me great confidence.

Next? An app for recognizing evil terrists! It's inevitable.
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Isn't walking around with a camera recording everything considered "terrism" now, too? Look in a mirror...

*DING*

"CAUTION: KNOWN TERRORIST!"
 
climber07 said:
...thinking about it, this would really help me at work and meetings. I wouldn't have to remember anyone's name!
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So all of your co-workers are sex offenders that Google Glass recognizes? :eek: Exactly what line of work are you in? :p
 
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