New Israeli facial imaging claims to identify terrorists and pedophiles

Times of Israel ^ | 5/24/16 | Sue Surkes

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A Tel-Aviv based start-up company says it has developed a program to identify personality types such as terrorists, pedophiles, white collar offenders and even great poker players from facial analysis that takes just a fraction of a second.

Faception claims it has signed a contract with a homeland security agency to help identify terrorists, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.

Furthermore, it says it successfully identified nine of the terrorists involved in November’s terror attacks in Paris, according to the Daily Mail.

And it asserts that its technology was able to accurately classify 25 out of 27 facial images of poker players and non-poker players in a blind test

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Tel Aviv start-up Faception says its face ‘classifiers’ can spot criminals and even great poker players in a split second, but the experts are not convinced

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Here comes the Department of Pre-Crime.

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Phrenology brought into modern technology?

At best it would be able to stereotype races who are currently prone to problems due to other sociological factors, and even that would be fraught with inaccuracy.

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I think this is just another garb for racial profiling... which actually can be empirically informative depending on the circumstances. But since racial profiling is mega un PC, this will have to stand in for it. When the going gets weird — the weird turn pro.

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Is that Bill and Hill under UV light?

LOL

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I dealt with that guy once, at arms length.

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