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Barrin92 on Sept 19, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ticketmaster recruits pros for secret scalper prog...

let's use face recognition for it, maybe we can put it to use for something that isn't policing

ageitgey on Sept 19, 2018 [–]

Maybe you are joking, but there are several companies trying this, like https://zenus-biometrics.com/

Barrin92 on Sept 19, 2018 | [–]

I wasn't joking at all. Tokyo is gearing up to use face recognition to process people at the 2020 Olympics as well.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/7/17659746/tokyo-2020-olympi...

Also you made a python face recognition library right? I like it a lot, so thanks for making it!

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