{"id":2116,"date":"2019-12-05T02:36:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T02:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kusuaks7\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2024-02-13T16:46:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T16:46:13","slug":"facial-recognition-helps-protect-digital-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/ai-ml\/facial-recognition-helps-protect-digital-identities\/","title":{"rendered":"Facial recognition helps protect digital identities"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFacial recognition\u00a0technology\u00a0has been hailed as a new crime fighting tool. But it has come under fire – many people are questioning its accuracy and its impact on privacy, while lawmakers are concerned it tampers with law enforcement efforts.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShaun Moore, co-founder and CEO of biometrics firm Trueface, believes facial recognition is a single component of a larger advancement in technology. \u201cAs our\u00a0identities\u00a0continue to digitise, we need methods and solutions to protect them and authenticate them.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHe says passwords are simply too easy to hack, so biometrics have been the necessary solution for the last ten years. \u201cI am not suggesting that face recognition as a single input is the \u2018be all and end all\u201d solution, but pairing it with social information or behavioural information certainly makes it more difficult to comprise an\u00a0identity.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAccording to Moore, the debate that society is having is purely about a surveillance state and begs the question of whether or not the government should have the tools to \u2018monitor\u2019 everyone in real-time.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cThe fact is, this is simply not how the technology is being deployed and the government isn\u2019t watching every street block scanning faces,\u201d he explains. \u201cThis technology is meant to aid the already very difficult job of law enforcement in identifying someone who has already committed a crime. Instead of manually scanning through days of footage, face recognition can provide another source of information or point of reference. It is not built to \u2018be the decision\u2019 it is to be used as a tool in a toolbox.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMoore says facial recognition isn\u2019t as basic as taking two pictures and seeing if they match.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cFacial recognition algorithms create a mathematical representation of a human face called a face template by identifying landmarks on the face such as the nose and eyes and calculating the distance between those landmarks.\u00a0It is, at its basic form, computing geometry.\u00a0 These equations represent the face which is then compared to other mathematical representations to find a match or a similarity score.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAccording to him, every person has their own equation or mathematical representation which is unique to them but also uniquely ingested by the algorithm.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIt is not a one-size-fits-all approach, as templates cannot be transferred across companies or algorithms, meaning you cannot take a face template from one company and use it to positively identify that person using a different company\u2019s software.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u201cPairing [facial recognition] with social information or behavioural information certainly makes it more difficult to comprise an identity.\"<\/em><\/h3><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Shaun Moore, co-founder and CEO of Trueface<\/div><\/blockquote>\nHe says there are a variety of ways facial recognition is being used today.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Firstly, personal access control, such as using facial recognition to unlock your phone, which is referred to as \u2018one to one\u2019 matching.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNext, there\u2019s public access control, which you\u2019ll find in services such as customs and border control, access to sports arenas and suchlike, which\u00a0 is referred to as \u2018one to few\u2019.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cFinally, facial recognition is used for public monitoring, such as law enforcement forensically analysing crime footage, which is called \u2018one to N\u2019 or \u2018one to many\u2019.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\nFacial recognition allows for more efficient flow of people as well as more security for the individuals inside buildings, and is being used to authorise individuals setting up bank accounts and making mobile transactions, as well as expedite the boarding process on planes, the embarking process on cruise ships, and to identify missing children.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMoore says there has been some adoption of facial recognition technology across police departments as a forensic tool, but he is unaware of any department using face recognition in real time. \u201cIn addition, we are working with companies to provide face recognition as a credential for access control to corporate offices and construction sites.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Facial recognition isn’t as basic as taking two pictures and seeing if they match. Facial recognition algorithms create a mathematical representation of a human face called a face template by identifying landmarks on the face such  as the nose and eyes and calculating the distance between those landmarks. It is, at its basic form, computing geometry.  These equations represent the face which is then compared to other mathematical representations to find a match or a similarity score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":510,"featured_media":2977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[97],"ppma_author":[3159],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-ml","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"authors":[{"term_id":3159,"user_id":510,"is_guest":0,"slug":"kirsten-doyle","display_name":"Kirsten Doyle","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","user_url":"","last_name":"Doyle","first_name":"Kirsten","job_title":"","description":"Kirsten Doyle is Consulting Editor at ITWeb, a business technology media company."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35994,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions\/35994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}