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1984: Face recognition could catch bad avatars
New Scientist – A police car rolls up to a house where the doors and windows are smashed in, rooms are ransacked and numerous high-value items are missing. Calming the home-owner, an officer begins to investigate: “Did you see the person who did it?” The shaken victim replies: “Yes, he had massive purple dreadlocks, green lips and was dressed like Michael Jackson.” Such an unusual perpetrator would be easy to identify in the physical realm, but this break-in took place in a virtual world, where odd-looking avatars are the norm. Read Article
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