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I’m just glad people were smart enough to realize the implications of “finding lost dogs”. I immediately thought this implied terrible surveillance uses. I asked my wife about how she thought this would work and she thought it was very sweet (she and I are both dog lovers). I said so how are they “identifying these dogs?” She went through the mental process… “they just take the footage and use the same facial recognition to see if a dog matches a missing one…. Oh yeah, that’s bad”.
I guess a lot of other people did the same thing.
Does facial recognition even work on animals? I seriously doubt it.
It's not just facial recognition anymore, though, they're looking at all kinds of other stuff, even how you walk.