Every day singularity looms closer. The future is here, and it’s pretty bloody terrifying.
A report published on Rolling Stone has detailed that the singer is experimenting with state-of-the-art-facing-recognition technology to combat stalkers.
Back in May, Taylor Swift played a concert at California’s Rose Bowl. The show featured a video screen kiosk that played clips from Swift’s rehearsals. Unbeknownst to fans, whilst they were enjoying behind-the-scenes footage of the Reputation extravaganza, a facial-recognition camera inside the kiosk was taking their photos.
Chief security officer of Oak View Group, Mike Downing, has explained: “Everybody who went by would stop and stare at it, and the software would start working.”
According to the report, these photos were then transferred to a Nashville “command post” to be cross-referenced with a database of the pop star’s stalkers.
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We’re still on the fence as to whether this is genius, or downright creepy. We’ll never experience Taylor Swift’s level of fame so who are we to judge. I mean Swift travels around in a suitcase to avoid Paparazzi, so are we really surprised?
This isn’t the first time facial recognition technology has been implemented in a concert setting. As the Rolling Stone report points out, earlier this year Ticketmaster invested in Blink Identity. Blink Identity is a facial-recognition startup that claims it can accurately and securely identify people walking past their monitors at full speed in half a second. Ticketmaster has plans to implement this technology so that fans can move through turnstiles swiftly and efficiently.
Earlier this year, Taylor Swift and Bryan Adams banded together to perform a cover of ‘Summer of ’69’, read all about it now.
