Comments on: The Privacy Wars: Goggles That Block Facial Recognition Technology http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2013/02/the-privacy-wars-goggles-that-block-facial-recognition-technology/ Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:30:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Pierre F. Lherisson http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2013/02/the-privacy-wars-goggles-that-block-facial-recognition-technology/#comment-632 Pierre F. Lherisson Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:33:24 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/?p=2550#comment-632 The plasticity of the human "mind" will always find countermeasure for any invention that is useful for some and inconvenient to other. The history of weaponry is an illustration of this. Thus, the omnipresence of panoptic devices, drones, RFID, biometric devices to name a few soon or later will be neutralized by other inventions. Now we have goggles that block facial recognition by using near infrared light. This is signaling the beginning of this long protracted war against intrusion. Post electronics era will usher the biological era during the next few decades when devices will be biological. Then scientists will find way to change the biometric constant such as fingerprint ,DNA etc.. The plasticity of the human “mind” will always find countermeasure for any invention that is useful for some and inconvenient to other. The history of weaponry is an illustration of this. Thus, the omnipresence of panoptic devices, drones, RFID, biometric devices to name a few soon or later will be neutralized by other inventions. Now we have goggles that block facial recognition by using near infrared light. This is signaling the beginning of this long protracted war against intrusion. Post electronics era will usher the biological era during the next few decades when devices will be biological. Then scientists will find way to change the biometric constant such as fingerprint ,DNA etc..

]]> By: Zoe Alexander http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2013/02/the-privacy-wars-goggles-that-block-facial-recognition-technology/#comment-631 Zoe Alexander Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:30:24 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/?p=2550#comment-631 It's amazing what can be created nowadays. Although I really don't see why ppl are afraid to be captured on camera unless they have something to hide. No doubt there will be benefits from testing these technological boundaries. Great article, very interesting. Zoe It’s amazing what can be created nowadays. Although I really don’t see why ppl are afraid to be captured on camera unless they have something to hide. No doubt there will be benefits from testing these technological boundaries. Great article, very interesting.

Zoe

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