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China Unveils World's First Facial Recognition ATM
An anonymous reader links to an article at IB Times according to which: China has unveiled the world's first facial recognition ATM, which will not allow users to withdraw cash unless their face matches their IDs. The machine was created by Tsinghua University and Hangzhou-based technology company Tzekwan. It has a camera installed in it that captures the facial features of the user then compares it with a database of identification photos.
ERROR: All users match same data set.
Are you insane giving out your pin to you bank account is the most stupid thing I have ever heard
Perfect is the enemy of improvement. The crime of kidnapping/murder is far more serious than pick pocketing or card cloning. A lot fewer people will try the more serious crime.
Take a life size image of the cardholders face and place it over your face while making a transaction.
Or take his head...
Antisthenes: "Wisdom begins by examining the words/names." - excuse my English, i am (slightly...) better with my Greek!
Letting someone who you trust use your ATM card and PIN is not unusual but (almost always) it is against the agreed rules between you and the card issuer.
Antisthenes: "Wisdom begins by examining the words/names." - excuse my English, i am (slightly...) better with my Greek!
This scheme will work for one branch in Lesser Nowhere, Sechwan Province, with a finite and small set of pictures, and a small number of crooks. Once the number of faces increases, the probability of a false positive explodes, roughly as (N 2) (select every two out of N), where N is the size of the pools of pictures + the person being scanned.
The well-known example is the "birthday paradox", in which twenty-three people at a party increases the probability of two of them having the same birthday to fifty-fifty. That particular case was because the actual probability was multiplied by (25 2) = 25! / ((25-2)! * 2!) = 6900 comparisons being made, times 1/365 chances of a hit.
The German federal security service considered using one of my then employer's recognizers for airports to catch terrorists, but ended up facing the problem of accusing grandma of being part of the Bader-Meinhoff gang (;-)) No matter how accurate we were, a few more people in the pool would give us false positives. We'd need roughly an accuracy of 99.9 followed by roughly as many decimal places of 9s as there were powers of ten of people.
--dave
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facials. that's porn.
But you may have problems recognizing people of your own general race in some situations: when, as a conscript in the Greek armed forces, i was in boot camp, because everyone was "the same" (same uniform, same haircut, same "facial expression of terror"), for the first week or so i had problems facialy recognize people i know for years, the they had same problems - visually, there were only those *groups* of people: tall/sort, fat/thin, and compinations of them...
Antisthenes: "Wisdom begins by examining the words/names." - excuse my English, i am (slightly...) better with my Greek!
No, this is big brother technology. They can now map the serial numbers of the currency from the ATM to a person. One step closer to cashless, surveillance society.
Although it could also be used to prevent a thief with stolen debit card and password trying to cash out someone else's money. But then how would a thief get somebody's PIN.
Take a life size image of the cardholders face and place it over your face while making a transaction.
Or take his head...
That's silly, just bring his face.
If it's cashless, we wouldn't need ATMs.....
Perhaps you might look into what slippery slope actually means. A slippery slope fallacy argues that if A happens then B will inevitably happen. In this case your premise that requiring picture will inevitably lead to requiring DNA is the slippery slope fallacy. Pictures do not lead to DNA. By the way, we already require pictures on driver's licenses. The GP was refuting your slippery slope argument not making one.
When it's especially cold it would be a pain to undo the bundling just so the ATM can see your face. There's a fine art in layering your clothes (balaclava tucks inside the coat collar, scarf on the outside, etc) to keep the wind out on those -30C days.
No, just no. No you do not want one. The next time you are outside (assuming you do go outside) take a look at the people around you. They will, inevitably and maybe invariably, end up in your pictures.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Assuming China is more like Europe than the US on this one, you probably transfer the money directly into your friend's account using a computer or smartphone.
Well Clarice, have the lambs stopped screaming?