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Facial recognition has always been creepy to me. A computer system recognizes you by your facial features: That’s something to be left in science fiction movies. I just read an article that tops it. This has got to be the worst use of facial recognition yet.
Facial recognition is being used to look for webcam sex performers. We can thank Megacams.me, a Belgian based company, (and I mean that with all sarcasm) for this. Megacams is a sex search engine where users can search for models. Megacams.me uses Open CV?to verify consumers and models against it’s facial recognition library. They’re the first sex search engine ever to use facial recognition technology. Users upload a photo of their dream model. It’s emailed and compared to models that looks like their chosen model. Megacams say they don’t store any of the data. Models are validated by hand and facial recognition. They perform to customers based on various demographics: size, race, hair color, etc. Their are around 5,000 performers and goodness knows how many users logged on Megacams at one time.
I won’t even put Megacams’ link in here. I don’t want to encourage anybody. It’s bad enough facial recognition is used at airports, and even some stores. But this gives people opportunity to search for pornographic material using face recognition. For people to use such extremes to look for their fantasy dream woman, or dream man, doesn’t sit well with me at all. The sad thing is: there are 180,000 models that have Meagcams accounts. To me, this is almost as creepy as using robots for sexual partners. From what I read, the fantasy of the user and the reality of the model rarely ever match up. And what if this kind of technology gets into really, really bad hands, (hackers, sextortion, terrorists)? What are they going to do then?