Brother Nathanael - 06-20-2018 - A Future Surveillance World
Aired: 2020-03-22
Duration: 03:37


=== Mannequin Surveillance (03:35) ===

[00:00:01]  Someone's watching you, and today no one's quite sure who.
[00:00:05]  Orwell said it was Big Brother, yet he was clearly personalized and marked out.
[00:00:12]  Thus one knew who was watching you.
[00:00:16]  Partitioning the proletariat in collective stations, a personal big brother makes a distinct and itemized touch.
[00:00:24]  Ref times 14284 page 3 by line 2 should read.
[00:00:37]  And your phone call too may be monitored for training and quality purposes.
[00:00:43]  It was Bergman's wild strawberries that foreshadowed a depersonalized big brother, which is all the more frightening.
[00:00:53]  You just didn't know who was behind those surveilling eyes.
[00:00:59]  The End Fast forward and you're on covert camera.
[00:01:17]  Meet IC, the latest high-tech weapon in the retail wars featured at the recent Association for Retail Environments showcase.
[00:01:25]  She uses facial recognition technology to gather information on its customers.
[00:01:29]  So here's how the IC mannequin works.
[00:01:32]  Let's say a customer walks through the store and sees a dress that he or she likes.
[00:01:36]  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.
[00:01:45]  Now she's growing ears and can hear everything you say.
[00:01:50]  It's a peeping Tom world all the way from Tel Aviv.
[00:01:58]  In the suburbs of Israel's financial center, Tel Aviv, a team of engineers is at the forefront of a technological revolution.
[00:02:07]  We've invented a simple way of transforming a photo into text.
[00:02:16]  They're teaching machines to read faces.
[00:02:20]  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.
[00:02:31]  At the end of that process, we are left with a simple text, which is the basis of our recognition.
[00:02:39]  The software has the power to identify one face from millions in under one second.
[00:02:45]  Here's the future scene, not long coming.
[00:02:49]  You're looking at firearms at a gun shop.
[00:02:52]  Dressed as a hunter, a mannequin with eyes and ears holds a rifle.
[00:02:57]  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.
[00:03:10]  A clerk gets it, you buy it.
[00:03:12]  A week goes by and a digital camera picks up your face at a rally.
[00:03:17]  Unbeknownst to you, a Confederate flag is waving in the background and all but posted on social media.
[00:03:24]  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.
[00:03:33]  When you return home, three cops are waiting for you outside.