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This company says it’s developing a system that can recognize your face from just your DNA (www.technologyreview.com)

submitted 10 months ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My guess is that they pair your DNA samples with photos of you, because anything else is doomed to failure.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the understanding of biology to go from DNA to full body reconstruction is very far away. What they might be thinking of doing is creating a database of face and matching DNA. Then when unknown DNA is queried it probably finds the most similar sequences and then blends some of the most similar faces together.

It's going to have horrible accuracy.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

And then perhaps, they will mistake a football with bald-head DNA.