Israeli Startup Claims to Spot Terrorists With Facial Recognition A Tel Aviv startup called Faception has developed technology that purportedly can identify character traits, including spotting who might be a terrorist, by analyzing a person's face. The startup, founded in 2014, and which presented its technology at a high-tech accelerator conference in Mountain View, California, last week sponsored by the venture capital fund 500 Startups, claims 80 percent accuracy in identifying character traits based on analysis of photographs of faces. It has already signed up a homeland agency to help spot terrorists, according to company CEO Shai Gilboa. The technology is geared to identify a range of specific traits, beyond spotting terrorists, including, for example, identifying extroverts, people with high IQs and even professional poker players. In a demonstration of the technology's effectiveness, Gilboa said Faception scanned 50 participants at a recent poker competition and picked out four of them as top players. Two of the four finished in the top three of the tournament. [...] <http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/tech-roundup/1.721480> Aspettiamo fiduciosi teorie sull'atavismo biometrico fondate incrollabilmente sul Machine Learning. Alberto