Is this the most important regulatory technology since DNA testing, or is it waiting for the next privacy disaster to happen, and as the Guardian editor has said, it puts us on the road ahead, "full surveillance "?In the development of face recognition technology, Australia is in the leading position.While new state police were silent, Australian Federal Police said face recognition was a "powerful tool" for linking criminals to crime, while customs said, it allows airport security checks to be carried out in a more seamless manner.Private companies such as Google, Facebook and Apple are also investing heavily in face recognition.University of Queensland Professor Brian Lovell, project leader for the federal government agency NICTA senior monitoring program, won global Asia earlier this month-His team won the Pacific Alliance for Information and Communications Technology AwardHe said the project solved the "Holy Grail" problem of face recognition.Lovell said that for the first time he and his team were able to use cereal, low-quality CCTV video clips to identify individuals from the database, and even to find and track people as they move in an area."Our" face search "is like Google search, and we can search very large databases very quickly," Lovell said ."."We identify in reality --When you go to a system, you are recognized;It can instantly search and match 10,000 or 50,000 of the database.But beyond that, the technology doesn't even require people to look at the camera to work, a limitation of the current airport smart door technology.\ "What we are good at is not"Co-monitoring, which means the person doesn't have to be aware that they are being photographed to be identified," Lovell said .".Lovell said that the film gives the wrong impression that the police have been able to carry out face recognition for a long time, but in fact, only if the image quality is very high and the foundation is very limited can they"We are working with the police..."We are currently in Canberra-almost all the local agencies that you will think of, and we may be talking to them," he said .".Lovell, who declined to give details of the official trial in Australia, said that, for example, if a taxi driver is attacked, the police can use the low-quality footage of the surveillance camera inside the taxi to match the photo database, and identified the attacker.It can also be used by the police for automatic ProInstead of checking CCTV footage after a crime, or having people monitor the footage in real time.When Timothy Pilgrim, Australia's privacy commissioner, expressed concern, privacy advocates had begun to act."Face recognition is the next personal information security and privacy disaster to wait for," said David Vaile, executive director of the UNSW Cyber Space Law and Policy Center, adding that once your face is hacked, there's nothing you can do.\ "The extra dimension of face recognition is that it is a form of biometric recognition.Unlike passwords or credit cards, they cannot be "undone" and cannot be replaced if hacked-see Tom Cruise in badreport for the surgery that the bad guy needs to follow him.Both Vaile and Roger Clark, head of the Australian Privacy Foundation, have expressed concern about the accuracy of face recognition, including potential significant "false positives ".But Lovell said he recently conducted a trial at an airport without a name, and of the 4000 passengers from around the world, his technology was able to get from 12 people of interest.He said that the performance of the system depends largely on the capture conditions;At the airport, it can get "close to 100" accuracy, but the performance will be lower at night."In Sydney CeBit, we had almost no errors in our three-day Tests and demos," Lovell said .".He said his technology is a natural development of the intelligent gate system at the Australian airport, but in addition to monitoring the people on the watch list, the airport can also use it to track how long it takes for passengers to pass through the terminal.Google is one of the biggest technology players in face recognition and related technologies.This year, the company acquired PittPatt, a face recognition company, after acquiring Neven Vision, another similar biometric company.Google images have allowed people to search using photos, including photos of people;But Google says this is not real face recognition.In addition, the latest version of Google Android allows people to unlock their phones with their faces, but users have cheated security tools with photos.Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt recently said that face recognition technology now has "amazing accuracy", but that accuracy is "very worrying" due to privacy ".The editor-in-In his 2011 Orwell speech earlier this month, Guardian chief Alan rathburje said he revealed that, he spoke to a "Google senior figure" who is thinking about the potential of Google's face recognition software, "so far the company has not been able to decide how to deal with its impact ".Rusbridger said Google exec told him that as long as a match is made, the software can match a face and a name with any image anywhere on the network."What makes this so disturbing, he says, is that digital spiders can crawl the web, find every picture in the public domain and match it with their identity," he said ."."So once a game is over, it's possible to scan every street or crowd scene in a few decades to see where a particular person is.Link it to all-We have a ubiquitous CCTV system in this country (UK) and you have a strong infrastructure-current, but also historical-for full monitoring.Google declined to comment.Facebook has also done a lot of work on face recognition and used the technology in its "tag suggestion" feature, which automatically marks friends in photos uploaded by users.Last year, Apple bought Polar Rose, a Swedish face recognition company.Nigel Phair, a former private security adviser from Cyber Police, said there are "many good national security and law enforcement reasons" for adopting face recognition, but the private sector should be careful, Google noted, through several street view court cases, Google learned that business interests do not exceed the rights of individuals to their image.\ "The concept is clearly not in line with civil liberties, because personally identifying information (a person's face) is captured, analyzed, matched and retained based on their knowledge," said Phair.Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgreen says biometrics, including facial recognition, is a "fast-growing area that could have a significant impact on privacy, especially when it is combined with public monitoring technologies such as CCTV ".Pilgrims say privacy is not an absolute right and needs to be balanced against other considerations, including national security and law enforcement.Pilgrim added that he wants institutions and organizations to conduct a "privacy impact assessment" before launching face recognition ".The customer should be informed of the full details of any monitoring.New state Deputy Privacy Commissioner John mccatell, who oversees the privacy affairs of new state public sector agencies, said law enforcement agencies like the new state police are basically not subject to new state privacy laws, state laws have provided extensive police power in monitoring.He has no problem with the use of face recognition by state agencies for specific crimes or other purposes (I)e.Investigate the suspect after the crime ).A similar tool, automatic license plate recognition, is now widely used in new states.\ "However, to the general population (without their knowledge or consent) running the app it identifies individuals who are investigating them on the World Wide Web (unless they are suspects in one thing), which seems to be contrary to the general functions of the police or law enforcement agencies."\ "It is one thing to collect extensive criminal intelligence, but to manipulate a huge database of information to associate it with random individuals (or large departments or groups) matching the non-acceptance investigation will violate the basic principles of privacy and privacy law.Lovell said he is talking to Australian institutions, including the airport, but he expects his face recognition technology to be first promoted overseas, it points out that 2012 London Olympic Games and other events are in great demand for use."In terms of international deployment, I expect two airports in the next few months and maybe 10 in the next 12 months," he said .".People don't have privacy rights at airports and other places, he said.In addition, he says places like the Middle East and Northern Ireland and the West as a whole can actually use it to increase people's freedom.\ "If you want to carry out your business without being disturbed, monitoring is a technology that is much friendlier than any other technology-the other way is basically everywhere you say who you are and Lovell says, he added, places like the UK are safer at night, mainly due to surveillance.In Western societies, it is difficult to find out the drawbacks of the surveillance system, said Lovell.He said anything could be abused, referring to the use of technology by the Nazis in the death camp."The government and the people who manage these things should use this technology wisely," he said .".Customs and Border Protection spokespersons said they were interested in all technologies related to border roles, including emerging technologies such as "face-to-face"in-the-Crowd \ "and \" face-on-the-fly\"."These types of technology may allow travelers to continue to maintain border security while passing through the airport and carry out certain border clearance processes," the spokesman said .".However, customs said plans for trial or implementation of face recognition have not yet been developed.When asked if face recognition technology is as important as the introduction of DNA testing, the Australian Federal Police said it is one of many tools that can strengthen the investigation, but unlike DNA function.AFP pointed out that although DNA can provide a clear proof of personal identity, facial recognition can only "help" the process."Facial recognition is a powerful tool for investigating and intelligence the discovery and investigation of criminals," AFP said .".\ "Its ability has improved the detection of offenders, linking offenders to multiple crimes, such as cold cases where only facial images related to the crime are present, and identification of aliases and false identities.However, Agence France-Presse said that face recognition technology cannot be relied on in court because it "does not have the same recognition ability as fingerprints and DNA "."However, this does help to find images to guide and inform the investigation, and experts or witnesses can provide the necessary level of forensic identification to the investigation," AFP said .".Agence France-Presse said it has developed its own facial recognition system to help with identity crime investigations, but declined to comment further due to "exposure to the risk of police methods.The new state police did not respond to several requests for comment.
