Terrorist Or Pedophile? This Start-Up Says It Can Out Secrets By Analyzing Faces

[Purveyor]

An Israeli start-up says it can take one look at a person’s face and realize character traits that are undetectable to the human eye.

Faception said it’s already signed a contract with a homeland security agency to help identify terrorists. The company said its technology also can be used to identify everything from great poker players to extroverts, pedophiles, geniuses and white collar-criminals.

“We understand the human much better than other humans understand each other,” said Faception chief executive Shai Gilboa. “Our personality is determined by our DNA and reflected in our face. It’s a kind of signal.”

Faception has built 15 different classifiers, which Gilboa said evaluate with 80 percent accuracy certain traits. The start-up is pushing forward, seeing tremendous power in a machine’s ability to analyze images.

Yet experts caution there are ethical questions and profound limits to the effectiveness of technology such as this.

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[RKP5637]

1. I'm glad I'm reaching the end of my life. n/t

[intrepidity]

15. Exactly my thought as well, sadly n/t

[Skittles]

18. I think about that a lot

where the world is headed, it's already someplace I do not want to be

[arcane1]

2. Next up, a phrenology app to map your skull contours.

This idea is as stupid and as likely misused as the "bomb detector" scam:

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/06/fake-bomb-detectors-iraq

[RKP5637]

5. Exactly, was my first thought, 21st century phrenology mapping the face. FFS! Can you

imagine, cops yanking people off the streets, well, the reading said they were one.

[Warpy]

6. Phrenology was my first thought, too

A study of microexpressions can reveal a lot but that can't be done by a computer in the time it takes for someone to walk past a camera.

Sorry guys.

[RKP5637]

3. Hmmm, I wonder what the detection rate would be if it could recognize corruption in politicians!

[Downwinder]

4. Send them W's picture.

[Marrah_G]

7. Neither of those are traits, they are choices.

[Joanie Baloney]

8. Maybe I can help

Shifty eyes+bomb=terrorist

Shifty eyes+ice cream truck with no ice cream=pedophile

You're welcome.

-JB

[MowCowWhoHow III]

9. What about a genius white-collar pedophilic terrorist who's extra chatty?

[rusty fender]

10. Pre-crime

Doesn't work

[CompanyFirstSergeant]

11. Wasn't there a science back in the day....

...that could examine a person by the shape of their skull, or bumps on their head, or some damn thing?

[Chan790]

16. Phrenology.

It's psuedo-science. It doesn't work...but I figure you already suspected that. It was also instrumental in the rise of eugenics and ultimately very-influential on the bullshit "sociologists" (as differentiated from actual practitioners of sociology) that inspired the thinking of Goebbels and Hitler.

[CompanyFirstSergeant]

12. Wait, I just thought of something else.....

.....don't cops use 'you looked nervous' as probable cause for a road-side beat-down?

Isn't that of similar validity to the OP?

[AngryAmish]

13. Send them a screenshot from last Sunday's Game of Thrones.

One wart or two.

[skip fox]

14. Geez.

Britain outlawed physiognomy as a means of telling fortunes centuries ago!!!

[MisterP]

17. oddly, phrenology was a 19th-century movement tied to political radicalism and freethought!

wait, what?