March 22, 2020 - Brother Nathanael
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| Someone's watching you, and today no one's quite sure who. | |
| Orwell said it was Big Brother, yet he was clearly personalized and marked out. | |
| Thus one knew who was watching you. | |
| Partitioning the proletariat in collective stations, a personal big brother makes a distinct and itemized touch. | |
| Ref times 14284 page 3 by line 2 should read. | |
| And your phone call too may be monitored for training and quality purposes. | |
| It was Bergman's wild strawberries that foreshadowed a depersonalized big brother, which is all the more frightening. | |
| You just didn't know who was behind those surveilling eyes. | |
| The End Fast forward and you're on covert camera. | |
| Meet IC, the latest high-tech weapon in the retail wars featured at the recent Association for Retail Environments showcase. | |
| She uses facial recognition technology to gather information on its customers. | |
| So here's how the IC mannequin works. | |
| Let's say a customer walks through the store and sees a dress that he or she likes. | |
| Well, as the customer is observing the dress, the mannequin is observing the customer, making note of everything from their age range, their gender, even their race. | |
| Now she's growing ears and can hear everything you say. | |
| It's a peeping Tom world all the way from Tel Aviv. | |
| In the suburbs of Israel's financial center, Tel Aviv, a team of engineers is at the forefront of a technological revolution. | |
| We've invented a simple way of transforming a photo into text. | |
| They're teaching machines to read faces. | |
| The face recognition model can measure the distance between your eyes, the width of your lips, the distance from your lips to your nose, etc. | |
| At the end of that process, we are left with a simple text, which is the basis of our recognition. | |
| The software has the power to identify one face from millions in under one second. | |
| Here's the future scene, not long coming. | |
| You're looking at firearms at a gun shop. | |
| Dressed as a hunter, a mannequin with eyes and ears holds a rifle. | |
| While you're admiring that rifle, unbeknownst to you, the mannequin takes a picture of your face and transforms it into a permanently stored text ID. You want that rifle. | |
| A clerk gets it, you buy it. | |
| A week goes by and a digital camera picks up your face at a rally. | |
| Unbeknownst to you, a Confederate flag is waving in the background and all but posted on social media. | |
| AI in the Cloud cross-references your facial text ID at the rally in the gun shop and sets off a police warning across the country. | |
| When you return home, three cops are waiting for you outside. |
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