{"id":18427,"date":"2013-06-30T13:27:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T11:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=18427"},"modified":"2013-06-30T13:27:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T11:27:43","slug":"burberry-kisses-good-or-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/30\/burberry-kisses-good-or-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Burberry Kisses, good or evil?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here is something I have mixed feelings about<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Thanks to modern technology you can connect with your loved ones by sending a quick note, a photo of your cat, even a smile :) around the world in seconds. But one of humanity\u2019s most iconic forms of communication\u2014the kiss\u2014has been left out in the cold. Now, though, you can send a kiss to anyone, anywhere in the world, through Burberry Kisses<\/a>, a new campaign from Burberry and Google. And not just any kiss, but your<\/i> kiss.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On one hand, this is sweet and romantic. \u00a0Yet, on the other, Google is so well known for its crowd-sourcing experiments, that it makes me wonder – what’s behind this one? \u00a0After all, when Google wanted to fix all those bad scans in Google Books project, they’ve started the Google Captcha service that used everyone on the web. \u00a0When Google wanted to teach it’s voice recognition of all the accents (at least in the States), they’ve opened up a directory service. \u00a0 And they’ve done more of the same for images, artificial intelligence, and even maps.<\/p>\n

So, what is a possible usage for a huge collection of lip images?<\/p>\n

The darkest version I have is somewhere around fingerprinting. \u00a0Lip prints are probably as unique as finger prints. \u00a0And when you mix it up with, say, face recognition that they already have, who knows where that can lead. \u00a0Oh, by the way, now that I thought of face recognition, Android’s face recognition lock sounds suspicious as well. \u00a0Oh, crap. \u00a0I think I’m going paranoid!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Here is something I have mixed feelings about: Thanks to modern technology you can connect with your loved ones by sending a quick note, a photo of your cat, even a smile :) around the world in seconds. But one of humanity\u2019s most iconic forms of communication\u2014the kiss\u2014has been left out in the cold. Now, … Continue reading Burberry Kisses, good or evil?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[3092,2068,1460],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-18427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-face-recognition","tag-google","tag-image-recognition"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t