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by simgidacav 4700 days ago
Guys, help me. Every time I see something like this I think "cool thing!", but I also start thinkin about new ways someone will start to track me down.

Seriously, my paranoid level has never been so high.

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Not too paranoid, considering the front page of this project says "OpenBR is a collaborative research project started by The MITRE Corporation". What is MITRE?

http://www.mitre.org/work/hs_sedi/ : Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute—or HS SEDI ...

http://www.mitre.org/work/intel.html : Just about all of MITRE's engineering and science disciplines are involved with improving our sponsors' intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) activities.

If it makes you feel any better, their publication[1] reports low accuracy on a popular dataset called LFW (which stands for Labelled Faces in the Wild). Most face recognition technology works very well on mugshots. Frontal Faces -- with almost consistent lighting and alignment. These technologies do not perform well on personal photos.

[1] http://openbiometrics.org/publications/klontz2013open.pdf

Paranoia can be a symptom of growing or oncoming depression. You should take that seriously: At least take a few days off and try to get a feel for your current mental state.
Studies have shown that depressed people sometimes have a more adequate world view.
Yep, that's called depressive realism. It's pretty bizarre to think about.
It's not paranoia if they're really out to get you.