- Incognito Mode: Battle for privacy in a world of face recognition
Last December, Ed Bridges tried to mingle with the Christmas shopping crowds on the streets of UK, while Police Cameras got hold of him. Since then he has been making regular efforts to delete it.
Although he hasn’t been convicted of a crime, nor under any suspicion of committing one. He is just one of the large number of people who have been quietly added to face-recognition databases without their consent, and more often without their knowledge.
- The Martians have landed in London, & they’re hogging the camera
Artist Jenna Sutela spends her life in two cities : London and Helsinki. But since last four months she has been living at London’s Somerset House Studios, thanks to a residency program with Google Arts & Culture.
There she has been:
Making videos,
- Learning about computers,
- Teaching artificial intelligences to dream, or
- Mastering Martian.
May be all of the above. It all depends who you speak to.
Google has been inviting artists in its Paris based lab, to explore the potentials of its machine learning systems.
Alike above, there are a whole lot of articles about new technology, out there on the World Wide Web. You can visit few of them in the source link or do a Google Search for more.