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Is it possible to fool state-of-the-art facial recognition?

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Facial recognition software is such a pervasive technology that we submit our data whenever we go through airport security or walk into a drug store.

Privacy experts warn that we may already be on the losing end of protecting our biometric data.

Soon, the only real defense may be federal regulation.

Anil K. & Nandita K. Jain Endowed Professor ; Computer Science and Engineering ( CSE ), College of Engineering ; Michigan State University .

My best practical advice for evasion: know where facial recognition is being deployed and simply avoid those areas.

Today ’s algorithms are rather tolerant of subtle changes to facial appearance, both innocent (eg., acne, mild swelling) or not (e.g., botox ).

Someone will decide on a threshold value to be used for recognition.

If the value is equal to or above 0.7 , the system says that they must be images of the same person.

You donât necessarily know what old photo of you will be used to compare with your new photo.

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