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In this contest kiwis are encouraged to take a photo of yourself and enter with your details on the face recognition database, and you can see how much you look like an All Black !!
woo hoo, during the ad there is no disclaimer or anything mentioned about what happens to the information after the contest is over.
You can even txt your entry by using a cellphone camera.
So if we goto the website, and check out the terms and conditions page:
By entering this Promotion you agree that Sanitarium and/or its related companies may hold, use and/or disclose information about you including your name, address and photograph for research, promotional, marketing and/or publicity purposes without compensation and that copyright in such material (if any) vests in Sanitarium. You have the right to access the information and request correction of any errors in it pursuant to the Privacy Act 1993.
So... research could mean government or a private company or anyone sanitarium chooses to sell it too, scary stuff.. !
And the way the whole promotion is designed it is so obviously intended to get people used to the idea of surrendering identity to a database while distracting us from the implications with promises of prizes and social status for looking like our idols, the All Blacks !!
If you cant convince the public to accept digital photo ID cards with face recognition, then just turn it into a competition and keep the worrying details in the fine print!
NEC delivers a comprehensive set of identification systems, NEC has been in the fingerprint identification business for over 30 years. NEC launched its Identification Solutions Division (ISD) in 1983 and has since been recognized as the world's most advanced fingerprint system.
The Automated Fingerprint ID Systems (AFIS) is used by the New Zealand Police. Fingerprint, palmprint and Iris Recognition technology suitable for law enforcement applications or home and business equipment, NEC provides industry leading solutions.
NeoFace® face recognition provides a convenient non-contact form of authentication or identification. NeoFace uses a technology called "Adaptive Region Mixed Matching," which focuses on segment regions with a high degree of similarity for matching.
Other makers' products make judgments based on a number of combined characteristics, such as the distance between the eyes and the nose, or the nose and the mouth. But this creates a problem, because if even one of these segments is missing, the accuracy drops dramatically.
In contrast, NeoFace divides the input image and the registered image into small segments, and focuses only on the segments that are highly similar. This enables the system to achieve higher authentication accuracy than our competitors' products, even if a part of the subject's face is hidden, for example by a mask or glasses.
TouchPass® uses the industry's most advanced finger imaging technology to reliably authenticate an individual, it uses the same patented matching algorithms as used to power the world's largest law enforcement databases, national ID finger-image databases and as used by the New Zealand Police.
Gee, does this whole thing sound just a tad fishy to you?
Connections with the police? Face scanning technology?
Hey, maybey the police are wanting to test this stuff out, and what better way than under the guise of a harmless competition... yeah right.
There is no mention of this contest in the media at all apart from a brief piece in the Nelson Mail:
In this article it just hams the whole thing up and has quotes from All Blacks and doesnt mention any privacy issues or any concern whatsoever. Any journalist with half a decent brain should have jumped on this story and recognized it for what it is. Even if a journalist did try to outline their concerns media execs and editors wouldnt allow the story to be covered anyway.
"Kao" is Japanese for "face." If a Japanese person says he has a "Kao-pass," it means his face is recognized at a particular store or restaurant. But it won't be long before we see the arrival of the true "Kao-pass Society." In this issue, we took a close look at NEC's new "Face recognition technology"; the Face detection / face recognition engine "NeoFace."
The "Kao-pass" society is right around the corner!
First, we'll give you an outline of "NeoFace."
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Tell me more!
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One photo match requires 1 millisecond !
Sounds like its a big deal in Japan. It has many uses from restaurant vip cards to a total survalence society!
By registering you will be entered into the competition to win prizes for looking like an All Black. By registering you have allowed your photo and profile details to be loaded onto the website. Your registration details will be used so we can contact you if you have won a prize, or if Sanitarium or Weet-Bix wish to use you in any promotional events. Please refer to our Terms and Conditions for further information.
Which takes us back to earlier page stating that the info may be used for research by whoever sanitarium chooses.
Also heres the part about the online profile:
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What if I decide I don’t want my photo up on the ‘tree’? Can I remove it?
Yes, however you will have to remove your whole profile. Login and select edit your profile. You will be given the option to remove your profile.
So, you can delete your online profile, but info on you and your digital image and face recognition data become the property of sanitarium...
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 12:26 pm Post Subject:
Presumably with many of the entries being made via cellphones, the database will also hold mobile numbers to tie the IDs into as many identification channels as possible. Interesting how the competition encourages entrants to create 'clans' and sign up as many other people as they can.
While promotion is surely one benefit for the organisers, these days, competitions are one of the cheapest ways for a company to harvest names and addresses for database creation and to profit from the on-sale of those databases, quite often for a very small outlay for prizes, admin and setup.
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 4:00 pm Post Subject:
from looking at a host of Adventist sites , they would have to be infiltrated by NWO agents to be of use to the NWO It is a nice mystery , isn't it?
the Mormon church also has its genealogical database . this kind of information has been used in the past by regimes with murderous , racist agenda . the early development of the computer was spurred on by the nazis' requirements in this area .
the Adventist church has the health food company in NZ, a publishing house , and one hospital in Sydney , but in the USA they are significant players in the healthcare industry , with numerous hospitals . it is not unlikely that some of those hospitals have research facilities .
who would care if they resembled an all black? it's a fairly small target , i would have thought . unless the research is aimed at gaining advertising leverage ? pairing up an all black with a boy of maybe twelve years old , then many other boys of that age identify with the all black through him?
the Adventists are very strong on exposing the NWO , who they correlate with their scripture based philosophy , and their (numerous and varied ) websites give quite a bit of info new to me , and worth chasing (google 7th day adventist conspiracy)
the sanitarium people are possibly being used by their contracted advertising people? maybe someone could check out who they are? organised religion is often of indirect use to the empire , but advertising agencies are pretty much their meat and potatoes (with a huge apology to all those adpersons out there , who are doing it for the sake of humanity ............you know who you are )
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:28 pm Post Subject:
OK, i was wrong . Again!!!
http//www.geocities.com/artanderson/1996_spectrum_whitecoat.adventists.pdf has a well-written story , outlining the special relationship the adventists had with the US army .
to cater to their needs around observing the sabbath , and to remain non-combatant , the SDA church actively encouraged its members to work in medical roles , when conscripted , and even to volunteer . this extended to encouragement to volunteer as subjects in experiments designed to defend against biological warfare .
the question as to whether adventist research subjects , and adventist researchers , were involved in developing offensive biological weapons , was raised many times over the years covered by the story .
if Adventist medical research personnel were given fast promotion , and their studies generously supported by the army .
the personnel who volunteered as research guinea-pigs were highly valued by the army , because of their uniformly good health , due to abstemious living , and their uniformly standardised mental outlook . (don't you love that?)
Steve
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:37 am Post Subject:
I enjoy Ana Samways' section one backpage Herald column Sideswipe and this morning's first item referred to the Face 2 Face All Black lookalike competition. I was going to post a link to the web version of the story here, but found that the online Herald has omitted that story from the Sideswipe column, carrying all the others listed in the physical version except that one. Surely this is not some sort of copyright or useage issue? Perhaps it is... I thought it was strange.
Anyway someone uploaded a picture of their cat Norman and the lookalike match came back as Carl Hayman (with a beard) :-)
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 11:42 am Post Subject:
Hmmm. You know those moments when you think people are over reacting and then find that they weren't? Not sure why I thought this would never happen in NZ.
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:44 pm Post Subject:
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New Zealand citizens will be exempt from the requirement to provide biometric data such as fingerprinting and iris scans but will have to submit to a digital scan of their face, which will be compared by computer with an image stored on a microchip in their passport.
Cunliffe said pictures of New Zealanders who were verified would then be deleted.
So, they're going to compare a photo of you with a photo they've already got.
Actually, this was one of my main problems with the "Weebix NWO scam". Why would the police/govt/nwo go through weetbix to get an incredibly unreliable pool of photo samples, when they've got two massive databases of identity-proven photo-to-person pools of data already (those being the passport and drivers license databases)?
Actually, this was one of my main problems with the "Weebix NWO scam". Why would the police/govt/nwo go through weetbix to get an incredibly unreliable pool of photo samples, when they've got two massive databases of identity-proven photo-to-person pools of data already (those being the passport and drivers license databases)?
anyone?
Youth offending is going through the roof. Lets not forget that you need one or two brains to get a drivers licence.
"Since 2002 the number of cases heard in the Youth Court has increased by a massive 70 percent and the number of offenders has increased by almost one-third."
At least theyre not fingerprinting New Zealanders returning. You dont want to be treated like a crim in your own country if you are an innocent law obiding citizen. The 'If youve got nothing to hide why worry' attitude doesnt cut it with me. Once certain freedoms are gone theres no going back. Many in this country dont know what freedom truly means.
I think you make a good point jay_gee
The police already have a good database, but I havnt read the small print on the rules regarding usage of the police photo drivers database, but the small print on the weetbix promotion is quite clear as already stated, can be given or sold to anyone they choose for marketing or research as your details become their property, this concerns me. If it was just a simple competition and nothing more then there would obviously be no reason to keep the details once the competition is over.
So therefore I would suggest that the competition is not the reason for doing this at all.. its a ruse, and its dishonest trickery because for some reason someone connected with sanitarium wants this data from us to be in their possession and under their copyright and the contest is just a way of getting the info and what better way than to use two kiwi icons like weetbix & the All Blacks.
Think about it... let me repeat this so it sinks in, someone wanted this info, so they dreamed up this contest, otherwise why is it so important to keep the data and include in the terms & conditions that you cant delete your personal data and that it becomes the property of Sanitarium & its related companies.
It totally stinks.. period.
Also the other really important point to make here is that this competition is a brilliant way to get people used to the idea of face scanning slowly but surely creeping into every facet of society from airports to street cameras to shop cameras to cellphone cameras even, and in japan they have security robots with this NEC neoface technology which will be walking the streets of japan soon, crazy but true !
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:40 pm Post Subject:
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I havnt read the small print on the rules regarding usage of the police photo drivers database
Well, the police own it. Surely they can compare photos they own to photos they rustle up via other means? Likewise mugshots.
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the small print on the weetbix promotion is quite clear as already stated, can be given or sold to anyone they choose for marketing or research as your details become their property, this concerns me.
I think you'll find the small-print of just about any competition where you have to submit personal information and/or a story, film, photo, tagline, motto, whatever will read exactly the same. Not many compeititions in this day and age are about companies just giving stuff away. They all want your personal info for their own marketing use and for onselling. Sanitarium are no different.
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If it was just a simple competition and nothing more then there would obviously be no reason to keep the details once the competition is over ... otherwise why is it so important to keep the data and include in the terms & conditions
as above. It's standard practice. It's not just about the competition, it's an ongoing marketing tool and potential earner for the company.
Finally, as an identification tool, the weetbix face2face pool of photos would have to be just about the worst photo->identity databases anyone could ever work with. To get any use out of it would mean cleaning out thousands of dud entries, then tracing mobile phone numbers and (maybe legitimate) names to their actual (maybe) owners. As I point out above, why would the 'authorities', who already have at least three databases of photos with positive identification matches at hand (covering a far greater proportion of the population than those who entered this contest) go to such a massive effort for such a small return?
ya i think you may be right there jay_gee, it may not be worth them using it ultimately... but all we have to do is watch and see what happens in the near future.. im betting we are gona see this technology rolled out in every facet of society.. so that the main purpose of this is...
social conditioning...
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Also the other really important point to make here is that this competition is a brilliant way to get people used to the idea of face scanning slowly but surely creeping into every facet of society from airports to street cameras to shop cameras to cellphone cameras even, and in japan they have security robots with this NEC neoface technology which will be walking the streets of japan soon
getting us used to the idea of biometric scanning as entertainment so that in the near future we will accept it as part of life, wereas in the past NZers have been very anti this type of imposition, and very anti ID cards and the like, so I still say this is a NWO ID scam simply because its part of a long standing plan for a total survalence society, as they say in Japan,
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the neo-face society is just around the corner!
they would never try the same marketing they use in Japan here in NZ, as they know kiwis are already very suspicious of such control mechanisms as they have done the surveys and seen the way NZers reacted to national ID card policies that NZ govt has tried to roll out in the past, so this is using entertainment to condition us to accept it as normal and inevitable... it stinks..but hey just my opinion . . :)
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:28 pm Post Subject: Britain’s $13.5bn big brother ID card project
Britain’s $13.5bn big brother ID card project
12:53PM Friday August 10, 2007
By Michael Holden
ID cards will carry fingerprint, iris and face-recognition information, and will add to the country’s CCTV network. Photo / Reuters
ID cards will carry fingerprint, iris and face-recognition information, and will add to the country’s CCTV network. Photo / Reuters
LONDON - The British government launched the selection process to choose companies to run its multi-billion pound national identity card scheme, the world’s most ambitious biometric project.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s government described the move as “another milestone” towards the controversial compulsory scheme, which is expected to cost more than 5 billion pounds ($NZ13.5bn) over the next decade.
Ministers say the cards carrying fingerprint, iris and face-recognition technology, are vital to fight terrorism, serious organised crime and illegal immigration.
The scheme, due to be rolled out from 2009, would see Britons issued with ID cards for the first time since they were abolished after World War Two.
“This is a groundbreaking project, with the potential for huge benefits for individuals and for the nation,” Home Office Minister Meg Hillier said.
“As the Framework Procurement published today makes clear, we are committed to introducing the scheme carefully and securely, minimising both cost and risk.”
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The notice, published in the Official Journal of the European Union, invites firms to bid for the supply and maintenance of computer systems and the issuing of the cards themselves.
Media reports said five firms would be chosen for the project with the largest contracts said to be worth up to 500 million pounds.
The cards, which will involve one of the world’s largest IT schemes, have drawn much criticism, with opponents saying they will infringe civil rights and be a costly flop.
The Conservative Party warned potential bidders on Thursday that it would scrap the scheme if it wins the next election.
“This project will do nothing to improve our security,” said David Davis, the Conservative home affairs spokesman.
“In fact independent experts like Microsoft and the LSE (London School of Economics) have pointed out that it could well make our security worse while costing the tax payer 20 billion pounds ($NZ54bn) in the process.”
ID cards are used in about a dozen European Union countries but are not always compulsory and do not carry as much data as those planned for Britain.
