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So I usually speak against just letting companies have your data. This is one of the reasons why. Data might seem harmless, but it is often rich with inference-able structures. Not to mention this kind of data does not deprecate.

Original research
arxiv.org/abs/1611.04135

Article overview with less math-speak
technologyreview.com/2016/11/2

So..

- Your face alone could give away that you are an independent thinker, had an atypical childhood, or anything that puts a criminal record on you in China.

- Law abiding citizens in tend to all look like each other.

@jmw150
I've always wondered how scientifically robust rejection of phrenology was... maybe it just went out of fashion.

grim that the powers that be have found applications like this - a "world without criminals" would lead to all sorts of deeply twisted crime.

more generally, some of the clinical assessments you see made in 19th century books/fiction do seem to tap into a more holistic view of human health, see Nietzsche and Sherlock Holmes among others. makes you wonder what else we're missing these days.

@jmw150
another perspective - if people are judged to be criminal by a jury of their peers, is the public's/machine's ability to judge "criminality" to some degree tautological?

@jmw150 "Law abiding citizens tend to all look like each other."

That seems like an awfully convenient thing for a tyrannical state.

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