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The Wall That Knows If You're a Criminal
Barence writes "A German company called Dermalog is showing off a wall-sized transparent display that can tell a person's age, mood and criminal intent simply by scanning their face. The system displays data about the user next to their face, and is a demonstration of a fraud-prevention system that matches criminal intent to certain characteristics. PC Pro's tester wasn't overly impressed. 'If the face was a good enough indicator of mood then it should have tagged me as "freaked out on business technological ennui," not simply "happy", and no police force would accept a description of someone as "aged between 45 and 75 — that's the gap between Daniel Craig and Jack Nicholson.'"
Phrenology!
I'm a satanic clam.
That still won't stop DHS from ordering one for every security line.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
So Daniel Craig walks up to this scanner and is greeted by a female voice that goes, "Good morning, Mr. Nicholson. We have detected that you are about to commit a felony. We strongly urge you to reconsider."
no police force would accept a description of someone as aged between 45 and 75
Neither would hiring managers at most tech companies.
Is there a video showing this thing in action anywhere?
It knows when...
You're happy [hooray!]
Or sad [aw!]
Or fightened [eek!]
Or mad[rats!]
Or excited [wow!]
Or glad [hey!]
.... So it's basically, a visual interjection detector. Nifty.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Most succesfull criminals generally have:
* Honest looking face, do not avert eye contant and have firm grip
* Dress the same or a bit better than their marks.
* Are happy and unconcerned when doing their work.
* Bathed and groomed.
* Get a bit of charisma.
* Are not dumb.
This is incredibly important for pickpockets - if you are in suit and looking like you are just comming from business meeting, people will not suspect a thing. And if you get caught, you can talk your way out because it can be played as misunderstanding.
Compare this to badly dressed, tatooed, nervous member of differently colored minory which causes people put their hands on their valuables immediatelly. (Those are good to detecting where people have their valuable stuff so that their coworker has much easier time)
Any system that judges people on looks is going to be way too stupid to know this. Most people are too scared to notice real dangers. And now they made software that mimicks this stupidity.
Bravo.
And we are not event getting to how evil this thing is because of basically labeling people randomly as criminals.
-- Technology for the sake of technology is as pathetic as eschewing technology because it's technology.
Since "criminal intent" seems to be largely defined as "not happy", 95% of people in various government office waiting rooms will be flagged as having "criminal intent". I suppose it clears out the waiting rooms faster.
I'd buy that for a dollar!
The average person commits three felonies a day, after all.
Such methods can't tell the difference between a criminal, a social critic or someone who's just having a bad day.
Giving them credibility is a mistake, as it will influence people to treat possible hits as probable ones.
He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Be well!
If you put one of these in a bar and charged $.50 per face scan you'd make a fortune. At this point, this is probably all that this is good for anyhow.
We're entering into the age of the Minority Report.
The Wall That Knows If You're a Criminal
25 years back or so they used a low tech solution for it...
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
If it can detect age then this is easy. If they are under 21 then they are definitely a criminal. And probably listen to the rock and roll music.
Step 1: Flag the person as a criminal.
That's all the steps. The chance of false positive is very small. Most people either have already done something illegal, or will do something illegal at some point of their lives.
It scans your face and checks to see if your eyes are squinting and darting from side to side, all suspicious like.
Next year, they plan on introducing the fraudster audio plug-in that will flag anything that starts with the words "Pssst! Hey you... yeah you... come'ere a sec..."
If I were a criminal or politician, I'd want one for practicing facial expressions. Maybe also hide one at the podium next to my teleprompter, to make sure I'm properly conveying the right message. Or give one to the make-up staffer to ensure that I look just right to the people. The rest of us will have to wait until it comes out as a smartphone app.
So in other words, they've invented the first robotic psychic?
We are the 198 proof..
It works just like our cops - it looks at the color of your skin: if your skin is somewhat darker, you are a criminal!
AccountKiller
First thing I'd want to do is rub my hands together and look generally menacing in front of this wall, just to see what it would say.
What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
...no police force would accept a description of someone as "aged between 45 and 75 — that's the gap between Daniel Craig and Jack Nicholson."
It's easy enough to program the wall to tell the difference between them. Daniel Craig is the one who is perpetually adjacent to a 20-something female who has an elevated heart rate and increased respiration. Jack Nicholson is the one beating the glass wall with a golf club.
Never checked the link but high testosterone levels were linked to face formation and ability to break the law.
Did they dig up some of Mengele's research?
Next someone will put a patent on a system that links to a system that controls 2 doors.
1. Freedom (for now)
2. An oven.
Nuff said.
Wouldn't this only work if people didn't know they were being scanned? Otherwise, they would probably purposely change their facial expressions every few seconds. If anyone questions it, they simply claim they are protesting the use of such a device. What are they going to do? Make it illegal to make silly faces?
You're wall going to prison.
facecrime: An indication that a person is guilty of thoughtcrime based on their facial expression. Orwell's definition : "It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself -- anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called."
The 1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual. :(
That still won't stop DHS from ordering one for every security line.
Are you in the mood for some groping?
Does it distinguish between true criminal intent and the desire to smash the display for being so nosy?
Sounds like Psycho-Pass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho-Pass#Plot
Although the fact that this is obviously a flawed system may not prevent police agencies from using it.
Really that's what it boils down to, knowing a guilty face just by looking at it??? Statistically you might be right most of the time, but the rest of the time you are mistreating innocent people. Not OK in my book.
(If at first you don't succeed, do it different next time!)
With their "Arrest black babies before they become criminals" and "Arrest white babies before they become child molesters" tshirts.