{"id":381834,"date":"2010-03-02T20:44:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T01:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.openthefuture.com,2010:\/\/1.9212"},"modified":"2010-03-02T20:44:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T01:44:44","slug":"participatory-panopticon-on-its-way-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/381834","title":{"rendered":"Participatory Panopticon On Its Way (Maybe)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picturephoning<\/a> gives a heads-up on “Recognizr” (you know it’s cutting-edge when they leave out the “e”), an iPhone app that will supposedly recognize faces seen by the camera. Here’s the promo video:<\/p>\n

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It’s a prototype from the Swedish group The Astonishing Tribe<\/a>. Apparently, a photo taken in Recognizr (sigh) gets compared to pictures in various social networking platforms, including Flickr (see? no “e”!!!!), Facebook, and the like.<\/p>\n

Picturephoning links to a hysterical Daily Mail<\/a><\/em> article, which plays up the STALKRS WILL STEAL UR VIRTUE angle, not really looking at the more interesting — and potentially more troubling — aspects. Popular Science<\/a><\/em> is a little more sober, but ultimately not hugely more informative.<\/p>\n

Until I see something more than just the one video, I’m going to call this one Plausible, but not at all difficult to hoax. Anybody know better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Picturephoning gives a heads-up on “Recognizr” (you know it’s cutting-edge when they leave out the “e”), an iPhone app that will supposedly recognize faces seen by the camera. Here’s the promo video: It’s a prototype from the Swedish group The Astonishing Tribe. Apparently, a photo taken in Recognizr (sigh) gets compared to pictures in various […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}