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| Source |  AlienVault Blog |
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| Identifiant | 840464 |
| Date de publication | 2018-10-10 13:00:00 (vue: 2018-10-10 16:02:55) |
| Titre | Time to Cover your Selfie Camera |
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I am reading an excellent book named “Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkardness”, which examines exactly as the title describes, awkward situations and how to deal with them. I love reading non-fiction books that are not InfoSec related. There is so much to learn out there about so many topics. Sometimes, however, I am lead back to my InfoSec passion (or, perhaps it’s an illness).
In the book, author Melissa Dahl mentions two companies that are working on some fascinating software that can read human emotions via facial expressions. This is a compelling development in technology, reaching beyond facial recognition. Facial recognition, you may recall has had some of its own challenges to overcome.
Of course, emotional recognition software would not be useful for authentication, as there are only seven emotions. To review, they are happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, contempt, and disgust. As you read this, are your inner InfoSec senses perking up? They should be.
Part of the way that emotions can be identified are through micro expressions. Micro expressions detect subtle changes in a face, but they happen so fast that it requires specialized training for the human eye to detect them. Those trained in micro expression recognition can detect, along with the seven emotions, other traits, such as a person’s level of deception.
While there are not many folks trained in micro expression recognition, a computer may be programmed to respond with alarming accuracy and speed. Rather than thinking that computerized emotion recognition could be used in a court of law (probably inadmissible as evidence, much like a polygraph), or during an interrogation (also of questionable usefulness), think of the economics of the technology.
One way in which this new technology may be used is to gauge a person’s response when viewing something on the screen. Using this technology, an advertiser could change what is presented based on the person’s response. You seemed to retreat a bit when you were shown the large automobile. Let’s pop an advertisement of the fuel-efficient hybrid. You enjoyed the flowers that popped up on your birthday? Let’s pop some chocolate onto the screen with a savings coupon.
The privacy concerns of such a technology have lead me to place a piece of electrical tape over the front-facing camera on my phone. I was never a big selfie person to begin with, and this technology is certainly enough to cure me of any urge to have that camera exposed. Remember, the camera and microphone on your electronic devices are software controlled, so unless you carefully examined that end user license agreement, you may have already given camera control over to one of your applications.
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