Eye cameras, facial recognition and investigator
Open letter to Axel E. Fischer, CDU, the chairman of the Enquete Commission Internet and Digital Society.
Dear Axel E. Fisherman,
In the spring, I had asked her for an interview. Then you have to let me know:
Please note that e-mails can only be edited if the e-mail is provided with name and address so that the sender can be clearly determined. Please inform the missing information.
"Determined" — The vocabulary made me suspicious: I know you just related to criminally relevant?! Or keep all journalists for criminals who have nothing else in mind than to go to the coat as an honorable politician?
I had answered that name and address could be easily mandated at the end of a mail and in that "detection" the identity of a conversation partner are abundantly unsuitable. Instead, I had committed my electronic signature and in return for her requests. Unfortunately, this information for you did not seem to have been helpful and you have discontinued the contact with my regret.
I wholeheartedly admit: the topic "electronic signature" is not so easy in one of the "Axel E. Fisherman calls for"-To accommodate formulas with which their fans have made them so familiar after they had demanded the mapping ban on the Internet in 2010.
But — Juhuuu!! — There is also possible in the information society to prove its identity. And that not only with this difficult crypto stuff, but on colloquial, for everyone / woman lightly lacking style. One was now introduced at the Berlin police.
Demoapp
For some days of Berlin’s police officers have been labeled to push service: either the name or service number must be played on a shield at the lapel. In any case, as long as the ladies and gentlemen do not swap swash (like the men at the Fubball), any confusion is excluded! Anyway, the burgers know at least, with whom they have to do it with the police.
Where the name tag is actually a little anachronistic in the information age — since you have to write off the name first and determine other personalities to visit the nice people then — for example after the demo against the airport — visit the airport — at home! I think such a media break is unexpired to an e-company. They could not even demand one "Demoapp" to develop, with the help of the present demonstrators with the policemen then can then network a little?
Eye cameras
But possibly but you have the next step in IT evolution in view: the facial recognition. It is already abundant — for example in Bahnhofen, airport, banks, petrol stations, shopping centers and the changing rooms of jeans manufacturers Diesel — The cameras are already installed there anyway. And it seems to give no pubic border for the hobby photographers in the selection of motives: the ECE Group pursues its customers up to the bathroom. The Federal Police sets with cameras armed air drones.
The Company for Computer Science is conceivable for such airthries to replace the politics and identify false parkers or illegal nudist baths. And the sales office Hannover of Deutsche Post suggested a customer, "to examine his advertising material with an eye camera test". To explain: The post wants to determine the reaction of fubgangern to a poster or a shop window.
With such technology, the designer Andreas Weishaupt is known. In a brochure [PDF]) he explains the "Performance" from litfabsule:
Eye cameras register the changing of the pupils of the subjects when looking at a poster. From these changes, the researchers read how attentively the seen is registered. An additional effect have the observations with the eyes cameras for the designer: because the view and the perception of the subject is recorded, important and unimportant design details can be identified.
Conditions
In other words, the excitement state of millions of visitors of German Fubgangerzones is publicly known. The ability to combine is great: diesel serves for example "his" Recordings from the dressing rooms consistently on Facebook world substitute. So why not even find the reaction of other customers on the tried-out clothes and unopolitan?
"juu.de" explains how to recognize the persons on the uploaded pictures in the realm of Mark Zuckerberg:
At autaggging photos are automatically scanned on Facebook and matched with the faces of friends. After uploading Facebook then automatically suggest friends who are in the photo. When friends mark you on a picture, you will not be asked by the system for your understanding. It is possible, however, to loose a mark of you. For this you click on "remove Mark". The link can be found under the respective photo next to your name, in the line "In this photo".
These are prospects! — Now all picture collectors could send the results of their observations to Facebook to deanonymize the suspects?! By doing so, yes Facebook also finances the bedroom cameras?! You could then join "Axel E. Fischer, CDU, demands toll for traffic in the bedroom" Make headlines!
Dear Axel E. Fischer: How to see, break paradise times for investigators like you. But do not forget your camouflage cap when you go hunting!