Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Placemeter monitors streets from apartment windows: time to don a mask?

This is pretty creepy.  From Sophos Naked Security:

Placemeter monitors streets from apartment windows: time to don a mask?

"Florent Peyre, the co-founder of Placemeter, told the Guardian that the company's counting and measuring tool is one aspect of endowing computers with the ability to recognise objects in live video feed:
For example, this type of shape or group of pixels is most likely to be a pedestrian or a car or a bus.
It's almost like giving the gift of sight to a computer, he said, which should scare the bejesus out of the privacy-minded."

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