No Face to Hide

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Face it – your mug is not entirely yours. It’s routinely uploaded to social media pages and captured on CCTV cameras with – and without – your consent. Sophisticated facial recognition technology can identify you and even make links to your personal data. There are few places where you’re safe from scrutiny. Find out how a computer analyzes the geometry of a face and why even identical twins don’t fool its discerning gaze. Proponents say that biometrics are powerful tools to stop crime, but the lack of regulation concerns privacy groups. Do you want to be identified – and your habits tracked – whenever you step outside? Plus, astronomy meets forensics. How analyzing photos and paintings using weather records, sky charts, and phases of the moon help solve intriguing mysteries, including the history of an iconic V.J. Day photo. Guests: • Donald Olson – Physicist, astronomer, Texas State University • Marios Savvides – Computer engineer, Director, CyLab Biometrics Center, Carnegie Mellon University • Alvaro Bedoya – Executive director, Center on Privacy and Technology, Georgetown Law Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
0:05.0	The world is filled with many questions such as, did giants exist?
0:09.0	What is junk DNA?
0:10.4	Does it mean that you're trash?
0:11.8	Do you ever wonder if aliens have underwater bases in our oceans and that's why there are so many
0:16.8	UFO sightings off the coast of islands all over the world?
0:20.8	How serious even is climate change and when should we start building our rafts?
0:25.0	Hello everyone, you may recognize me as Gabby from the History of Everything podcast.
0:29.0	And my name is Bruna, and you don't recognize me from anything yet. Together we're two
0:34.6	scientists who explore the answers to these questions and many many more in our new
0:38.2	podcast Mystery of Everything available everywhere you get your podcast.
0:43.0	Get ready to geek out.
0:46.0	The Wired Science Podcast explores all the latest and greatest in science.
0:50.0	Everything from strange diseases and biological breakthroughs to
0:54.3	interesting tech and mysteries in outer space.
0:57.2	Listen to Wired Science today wherever you get your podcasts.
1:00.5	That's Wired Science wherever you get your podcasts. Who owns your face? You may think the answer is obvious, of course you do. But while it's
1:21.4	yours to carry around, your likeness is also uploaded to social media pages
1:26.2	captured by closed circuit television cameras, snapped on strangers cell phones, and frequently
1:31.8	with your name attached. We no longer need to struggle to
1:35.4	put a name to a face. Sophisticated facial recognition technology does that automatically
1:41.6	and its deployment in public places is poised to become ubiquitous.
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