{"id":177680,"date":"2019-07-12T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/07\/12\/facial-recognition-how-does-it-fing-work\/"},"modified":"2019-07-12T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T00:27:00","slug":"facial-recognition-how-does-it-fing-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/07\/12\/facial-recognition-how-does-it-fing-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Facial Recognition, How Does It F%$#ing Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8GyVx28R9-s\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>The ICP Song Miracles, where the lyrics for the title come from<\/i><\/div>\n<p>It appears that <a href=\"https:\/\/consequenceofsound.net\/2019\/07\/juggalo-makeup-facial-recognition\/\">Juggalo makeup prevents facial recognition software fail<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Last year, Ticketmaster and LiveNation invested in <a href=\"https:\/\/consequenceofsound.net\/2018\/05\/ticketmaster-invests-in-a-facial-recognition-technology-company\/\">a former military facial recognition company<\/a>, with the hope that the technology could be used to both strengthen and speed up event entry. If that prospect thoroughly creeps you out, here\u2019s a simple life-hack to defeat Big Brother: become a Juggalo. In a revelation that is sure to <a href=\"https:\/\/consequenceofsound.net\/2018\/07\/fbi-insane-clown-posse-report\/\">freak out the FBI<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/consequenceofsound.net\/artist\/insane-clown-posse\/\">Insane Clown Posse<\/a>\u2019s passionate fan base have unintentionally unlocked the secret to thwarting facial recognition. <\/p>\n<p>It turns out that Juggalos face makeup cannot be accurately read by many facial recognition technologies. Most common programs identify areas of contrast \u2014 like those around the eyes, nose, and chin \u2014 and then compare those points to images within a database. The black bands frequently used in Juggalo makeup obscure the mouth and cover the chin, totally redefining a person\u2019s key features.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m considering wearing the makeup in my day to day life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ICP Song Miracles, where the lyrics for the title come from It appears that Juggalo makeup prevents facial recognition software fail: Last year, Ticketmaster and LiveNation invested in a former military facial recognition company, with the hope that the technology could be used to both strengthen and speed up event entry. If that prospect &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[478,366,382,401],"class_list":["post-177680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-music","tag-privacy","tag-technology","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}