Face-Swapping Software To Protect Privacy

(0d0 writes "Some researchers at Columbia University's Computer Vision Labratory have developed software to automatically replace faces in batches of photos. Practical applications include protecting the identities of people in Google's Street View, coupling it with a digital camera's burst mode to create a perfect group photo, or protecting the identities of witnesses or law enforcement and military personnel. Other links to coverage include Boing Boing, American Public Media, and New Scientist."

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Question to all:

[DaedalusHKX]

Using the same idiot logic to justify surveillance of innocent or otherwise "non guilty" private individuals by governing forces.

"If they have done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide, why are they so eager to hide their faces behind false images and balaclavas/ninja masks? Why is law enforcement so eager to hide from the people whom they supposedly serve... namely the public?"

Could it be that they are doing more harm than good and a LOT of people are sick of them and their abuses? Time will tell, but I for one would not choose such a "dangerous" occupation. After all, when one's "occupation" involves paramilitary "occupation" of the streets of a country, then one can expect to occasionally see one's buddies or ones own self take a bullet or two for its masters. Dangerous "occupation" indeed. And likely to get MORE dangerous as the economy winds down and people stop playing as nice as they do when prosperity abounds.

Like I said, I wouldn't be caught dead IN law enforcement or with friends still in that field. Most of mine have quit to seek actual productive employment. Good for them.