Change of human relationships due to faCial reCognition systems demoCratisation.ADRIANO MESCIA

surVeillanCe and autonomous Weapons

faCial reCognition AN AUTOMATED HUMAN PROCESS

Big data A PRIVACY ISSUE

metadataTHE REAL DANGER FOR

AUTOMATED PROCESSES

What if sCenariosSPECULATION ON THE FUTURE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION

AND SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS?

DRASTIC IDEASCountermeasures - Biometrics Labs

Relationships - Change in the way people relate to each other

Understanding people feelings and thoughts

TECHNOLOGIESPenalty optimisation

Autonomous bouncers

OWNERSHIP OF DATAGovernment - Big Brother (1984)

Hackers - Cyber Terrorism ruling the world

Multinationals - Data as new trade goods

People - Banks of Data

Change of humanrelationships

wHAT if PEOPlE will RECOgNiSE THEMSElvES ONly if MACHiNES will DO iT?

humans unaBleto Carry outBasiC aCtiVitiesAS iT OfTEN HAPPENS NOw wiTH wAyfiNDiNg wiTHOUT A SMARTPHONE

RECIPROCAL INFORmATION:

- if yOU kNOw EACH OTHER - wHERE yOU MET- HOw yOU MET- ETC...

PERSONAL INFORmATION:

- NAME- AgE- NATiONAliTy- ETC..

RECIPROCAL INFORmATION:

- if yOU kNOw EACH OTHER - wHERE yOU MET- HOw yOU MET- ETC...

PERSONAL INFORmATION:

- NAME- AgE- NATiONAliTy- ETC..

SUBJECTIVEOBJECTIVE

MACHINE wOULD SHAPE RELATIONSHIPSBASED ON METADATA AND THEIR ASSUMPTIONS

autonomousnot Just automatiC

they Could Create neW friends, But also neW enemies

nothing is forgotten

repressed BehaViours

no fun of disCoVery

priVaCy...What?

SCRIPT 1

1st scene: two people walking, then they meet and they only stand in front of each other without say a word

as they are about to speak they stop as they got already the answer from the machine, which will appear on the screen (first person view)

2nd scene: girl that without its device cannot recognise others.In public spaces, they will say hello to her, but she doesn’t know who they are so she says hello embarassed, while the glasses say no battery.

SCRIPT 21st scene: showIng how the technology works:

Matt walks in the street and says hello to a couple of person he knows passing by

2nd scene: he finds an enemy.

matt arrives to the bus stop sees a guy from far away and the machine says:“you don’t know him, but you should know something. discover more.” “Ok, go on”.“he is continuously hitting on your girlfriend and more than once she ki...”[no battery]matt goes to the guy at the stop and punch him in the face.As the guy goes home and charges the phone: ..cked him out of her office”*

*find a sentence more cool

SCRIPT 31st scene: woman afraid to go in public, goes out from the house and starts to look around.

2nd scene: On the bus (or public space) she feels weary as she feels observed by everyone.

3rd scene: walks in the street and sees people communicating just standing in front of each other without saying a word. she looks worried and one of them glance at her for a second.

4th scene: Then she sees 2 people who suddenly start to fight screaming at each other without any sense.

5th scene or (maybe during all scenes): person staring at her for long time and shaking is head in dissent, with angry face.