{"id":92026,"date":"2019-06-13T19:02:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T02:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/terrifying-ai-matches-dna-to-facial-recognition-databases"},"modified":"2019-06-13T19:02:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T02:02:47","slug":"terrifying-ai-matches-dna-to-facial-recognition-databases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/terrifying-ai-matches-dna-to-facial-recognition-databases","title":{"rendered":"Terrifying AI Matches DNA to Facial Recognition Databases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/terrifying-ai-matches-dna-to-facial-recognition-databases2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cops would love to have a system that <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/bad-dna-tests-innocent-people-convicted\">uses DNA<\/a> from a crime scene to generate a picture of a suspect\u2019s face, but that tech is still restricted to science fiction.<\/p>\n<p>That technology may never exist, but a team of Belgian and American engineers just developed something similar. Using what they know about how DNA shapes the human face, the researchers built an algorithm that scans through a database of images and selects the faces that <em>could <\/em>be linked to the DNA found at a crime scene, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-019-10617-y\">according to research<\/a> published Wednesday in the journal <em>Nature Communications <\/em>\u2014 a powerful crime-fighting tool, but also a terrifying new way to subvert privacy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/ai-matches-dna-facial-recognition-databases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cops would love to have a system that uses DNA from a crime scene to generate a picture of a suspect\u2019s face, but that tech is still restricted to science fiction. That technology may never exist, but a team of Belgian and American engineers just developed something similar. Using what they know about how DNA [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}