Sunday, August 21, 2016
Greetings Laff Lovers,
I read a disturbing story. It seems certain hotels, namely the Venetian resort, hotel and casino in Las Vegas, has started using facial recognition technology to tailor suggestions for restaurants, clubs and entertainment to passersby.
You walk past a camera and it scans your face to instantly profile you as a man or woman, your likely age and probably even your ethnicity. The computer it is attached to then tailors an advertisement for you which is displayed on a near-by screen.
If this sounds familiar that's because it comes straight out of that Tom Cruise disappointment Minority Report.
This is just the first step, of course. How many people have pictures of themselves on Facebook or MySpace 'tagged' with their real name?
What happens when these technologies get together on the Internet?
I can picture myself walking through the mall with my wife and kids when a camera scans my face, matches it with a picture of myself on my Facebook profile and instantly knows about all of my Internet activity.
"Hello TZ!" chimes a pleasant voice from a kiosk equipped with large, flat screen displays. "If you're interested in barely legal, Asian hermaphrodites make sure to check out Big Al's Adult Book and Video six blocks west of the mall. And Walgreens has a sale right now on self-warming sex lube."
Anonymously,
TZ
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