Major League Baseball wants to use facial recognition instead of tickets to get in
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fuzzybuddy
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I'm skeptical about using facial recognition instead of a ticket. Other venues have ticket authentication technology. Off the top of my head, I see one glaring problem with facial recognition. Say, my brother is a Mets nut, so I buy tickets for him and his family as a present. How does facial recognition work with that? I wonder if MLB is getting paid to try out facial recognition systems.
Besides technical glitches etc that's that much more information in another database that can be stolen, hacked or abused by those with access. Professional sports already is going cashless at many of it's stadiums which. means everything one buys is tracked and/or stored in one of the databases others will eventually get access to.
Sports fans willing already willing to pay outrageous prices for tickets, parking, food, souvenirs etc probably don't think twice about privacy or abuse issues. They are already followers.
Sports fans willing already willing to pay outrageous prices for tickets, parking, food, souvenirs etc probably don't think twice about privacy or abuse issues. They are already followers.
Nosy Bee-54
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That is bad news for fans who are on the banned list.
It is a slippery slope some people did not see coming ..... or said those who worried about it were nuts....
cashless is more likely IMO to avert theft or mishandling of money by often minimum wage part time workers ..... but the Data collection is out of control ...... every app ........every "we will give you a discount if you only order on your phone etc" ....... is a SELLING of your privacy and believe me the data mined is paying off the places far more then the itty bitty discount they give people
Bella
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Privacy everywhere is disappearing at a rapid rate. It sounds like a joke, but China's been using facial recognition to dispense toilet paper in public restrooms for years.
A man uses an automatic toilet paper dispenser that uses facial recognition technology at a public toilet at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing on March 21, 2017.
Facial recognition in public restroom required if you want toilet paper > https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/china-facial-recognition-toilet-paper-1.4052888
Excerpt from the above article:
"If you want toilet paper at one UNESCO World Heritage Site in China, you must submit to a face scan before an allotted amount will roll out of a device
When you gotta go, you gotta go, but there may be a line in public restrooms. Usually those lines don’t have anything to do with surveillance. Let’s hope a new biometric authentication trial in China doesn’t roll out here, or else you would have to stop in public bathrooms in front of a device that uses facial recognition and wait for your allotted amount of toilet paper to be dispensed.
Too bad, so sad if the 24-inch strip of toilet paper isn’t enough. The dispenser will not spit out more paper to the same person until after nine minutes have passed.
Why would this creepy type of surveillance be deployed in public restrooms? To combat toilet paper theft."
No matter where you go or what you do, get used to it.
A man uses an automatic toilet paper dispenser that uses facial recognition technology at a public toilet at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing on March 21, 2017.
Facial recognition in public restroom required if you want toilet paper > https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/china-facial-recognition-toilet-paper-1.4052888
Excerpt from the above article:
"If you want toilet paper at one UNESCO World Heritage Site in China, you must submit to a face scan before an allotted amount will roll out of a device
When you gotta go, you gotta go, but there may be a line in public restrooms. Usually those lines don’t have anything to do with surveillance. Let’s hope a new biometric authentication trial in China doesn’t roll out here, or else you would have to stop in public bathrooms in front of a device that uses facial recognition and wait for your allotted amount of toilet paper to be dispensed.
Too bad, so sad if the 24-inch strip of toilet paper isn’t enough. The dispenser will not spit out more paper to the same person until after nine minutes have passed.
Why would this creepy type of surveillance be deployed in public restrooms? To combat toilet paper theft."
No matter where you go or what you do, get used to it.
guess anyone with a gastric distress should carry their own supply LOLPrivacy everywhere is disappearing at a rapid rate. It sounds like a joke, but China's been using facial recognition to dispense toilet paper in public restrooms for years.
A man uses an automatic toilet paper dispenser that uses facial recognition technology at a public toilet at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing on March 21, 2017.
Facial recognition in public restroom required if you want toilet paper > https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/china-facial-recognition-toilet-paper-1.4052888
Excerpt from the above article:
"If you want toilet paper at one UNESCO World Heritage Site in China, you must submit to a face scan before an allotted amount will roll out of a device
When you gotta go, you gotta go, but there may be a line in public restrooms. Usually those lines don’t have anything to do with surveillance. Let’s hope a new biometric authentication trial in China doesn’t roll out here, or else you would have to stop in public bathrooms in front of a device that uses facial recognition and wait for your allotted amount of toilet paper to be dispensed.
Too bad, so sad if the 24-inch strip of toilet paper isn’t enough. The dispenser will not spit out more paper to the same person until after nine minutes have passed.
Why would this creepy type of surveillance be deployed in public restrooms? To combat toilet paper theft."
No matter where you go or what you do, get used to it.
Bella
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Yeah, or stay home!I was thinking that if I was out and about, I'd always have a supply of tissues with me in order to avoid the scan.
Been There
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I saw this on TV yesterday. They are saying it can get people through the gate quicker. So, if you order 6 tickets, you step up to the camera, it takes a photo of you and if it matches what they have on file, the 6 tickets are dispersed. Are we really in that much of a hurry that a few seconds will speed things up?
Roadwarrior
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The world's population has topped 8 billion, 85% of them are non-whites. The high tech companies say 'yes' the software is possibly fallible when scanning minorities. My calculations are since, they insist it's only 3.5% of the time, there are still problems. Out of 8 billion - 6.8 billion can fall through the cracks. If you have 60,000 ticket holders attending a game it's possible that 1785 of them will be flagged at every game.
Hope they don't use it at cricket or soccer games. Either would be a real can of worms.
Hope they don't use it at cricket or soccer games. Either would be a real can of worms.
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Gaer
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Why?
That darn thing called a pesky paper ticket-also the customers receipt and souvenir. Impatient fans. And some say they want to temper the reselling of tickets.
And down the road those fans likeless will be sold in some form. Maybe not now to lure the fans in but in the future.
Gaer
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- New Mexico U.S.A.
Facebook got in hot water for using facial recognition to link photos to people. That'a the thing these teams could sell 50,000 photos of fans from the facial recognition and not put one scrap of information and buyer will run it their facial recognition program with names attached.
Facebook to delete 1 billion people's 'facial recognition templates'
Alot of these privacy issues directly and indirectly affect those involved. The big issue is the amount of information that could be derived from one piece of information. They get your picture from a baseball team and ID you through their own database. They know one of your favorite sports, hobbies and how much you can or will spend(advertisers hovering). Once they have your name they then will buy other information about you. Since purchases at stadiums are now cashless they could start there. Before you know it they have your credit history, limit and transaction history. They know how many beers you can/will drink in a couple hours. How many orders of fries( health insurance companies wouldn't mind having that info).
Law enforcement might buy batches of pictures for fugitives and investigations. Lawyers or private investigators could do the samething for a client. What if season tickets are at stake in divorce.
Biggest issue this is yet another place where personal information can be compromised. The more places personal information the bigger the chance it could be stolen, hacked, abused, sold, resold etc.
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Gaer
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- New Mexico U.S.A.
Wow! You put a lot of thought in that answer.