#facerecognition with it's #falsepositives ( non criminals being falsely accused of being criminals ) is not just a problem of this specific technology. It is a problem with how #police investigates cases in general.
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Incredible. #UK Plans AI Experiment on Children Seeking Asylum
"Experimenting with unproven technology to determine whether a child should be granted protections they desperately need and are legally entitled to is cruel and unconscionable.
Facial age estimation has not been independently evaluated in real-world settings. Companies that tested their technology in a handful of supermarkets, pubs, and on websites set them to predict whether a person looks under 25, not 18, allowing a wide error margin for algorithms that struggle to distinguish a 17-year-old from a 19-year-old..
AI face scans were never designed for children seeking asylum, and risk producing disastrous, life-changing errors. Algorithms identify patterns in the distance between nostrils and the texture of skin; they cannot account for children who have aged prematurely from trauma and violence. They cannot grasp how malnutrition, dehydration, sleep deprivation, and exposure to salt water during a dangerous sea crossing might profoundly alter a child’s face.."
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/07/31/uk-plans-ai-experiment-on-children-seeking-asylum
Human Rights Watch · UK Plans AI Experiment on Children Seeking AsylumThe United Kingdom’s announcement on July 22 that it would use AI face-scanning technology to evaluate whether an asylum seeker is under age 18 threatens to harm children seeking refuge.
#BadCops #LawEnforcement #AI #FaceRecognition #Arrested #ACAB
https://youtu.be/He8-DkJnXik
Wrong Guy: Florida suspect misidentified by AI facial recognition technology, arrested
3 Styles für deine nächste Demo!
Es ist wichtig das wir für unsere #rechte und gegen #Ungerechtigkeit einstehen. #protest ist die Form in der einzelne viel Wirkungskraft hat, wenn sich alle zusammentun.
In einigen Ländern wird es aber Demonstranten immer schwerer gemacht auf die Straße zu gehen. Hohes #Polizeiaufgebot, #Bodycams oder der Einsatz vom #Gesichtserkennung soll abschreckend wirken.
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ICE facial-recognition app uses 200M images.
Instant ID tool in the field.
https://eff.org/issues/face-recognition
#Surveillance #ICE #Privacy #FaceRecognition
Electronic Frontier FoundationIssues
Das Performance und Künstlerdou Lea Karnutsch und Ferdinand Doblhammer zeigen unsere Faception T-shirts in Aktion! 
Face recognition is almost here — and it’s built the zeitkapsl way:
Find and group photos by people
Fully end-to-end encrypted
Runs locally on your phone
No cloud processing, no leaks
Sorry it takes a bit longer we expected, but it's worth the wait.
Here’s a first look at what’s coming. 
GIF
https://icespy.org shows the identity of ICE employees using face recognition against hundreds of scraped linkedin profiles.
Via artist Kyle McDonald / Threads.
Lust Kameras mit Gesichtserkennung zu verwirren?
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As the USA is rivalling China in surveillance and repression technologies (including concentration camps, etc.) it's now advisable to get off US hosted social media, not to provide information that can be used for identification, etc.
Big Brother is at risk of developing an inferiority complex as the infrastructure for automated thought police is now getting abundant, cheap, and in the right hands.
#socialmedia #facerecognition #surveillance #repression #AI
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/09/clearview_founder_exceo_ousted
The Register · Founder of facial-rec controversy biz Clearview AI booted from board
Ich übersetzte das mal:
"McDonalds will die Ausbeutung seiner prekär beschäftigten Mitarbeiter*innen weiter optimieren"
https://www.heise.de/news/McDonalds-Mit-KI-zu-mehr-Produktivitaet-10308847.html
heise online · McDonalds: Mit KI zu mehr Produktivität
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@aperion on the plus side there are probably thousands of such cases that go unnoticed by the internet :)
But yeah maybe we need a #Bot similar to the #altBot which automatically blurrs all faces of persons(who are not the focus of the Video etc)
@LuisCrespo
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Some more pictures of the #patterns to bypass #cctv #facerecognition.
Picture 1: data visualisation of CCTVs ratios in 5 European cities (cctv/surface, cctv/population, cctv/crime index). #knitting on the #kniterate machine
Picture 2: doodled stripes on #inkscape with hatches paste effect. #knitting on the #kniterate machine
Picture 3: #sewing a ready-made pattern from deadstock fabrics
Picture 4: Exhibition view. A visitor trying the garment with live CCTV face recognition (#opencv)
Model: Élodie Goldberg
#fabricademy project 2024
For more info see my previous post!
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A 3 months #research around #patterns to bypass #cctv #facerecognition.
Tested with #opencv.
Project done in the #fabricademy, a programme over textile and technology, at the @greenfabric node.
I knitted 2 kimonos on a #kniterate, a semi-industrial #machineknitting with deadstock yarns. The 3rd one is a deadstock fabric whose pattern was already a working #camouflage for opencv.
The project is fully documented here:
http://class.textile-academy.org/2024/stephanie-vilayphiou/project/
Concerning cctv surveillance, France has recently gone crazy over it... it seems like they want to recognise logos from organisations in protests and faces associated with them... does someone know an opencv algorithm to detect specific images? Or does it necessarily go through machine learning?
Hello Mastodon,
Here's my #introduction post.
Former #graphicdesigner and #webdeveloper at #OpenSourcePublishing, I gradually turned my practice to #textiledesign. Still exploring free and open source software, programming but in relation to many textile techniques.
My main practice is #knitting, #machineknitting and #visiblemending. But I love to explore any #fiberarts related #technique.
In 2020, I joined the #textile #fablab @GreenFabric in #brussels where I like to build / #hack #machines for textile.
In 2024, I joined the #Fabricademy programme ( #textile and #technology) where I made digitally knitted garments to bypass #CCTV #facerecognition.
I am now a Fabricademy instructor!
A little picture as intro: My Mother was a Computer. Title borrowed from media theoretician Katherine N. Hayles. This is the opening piece of a series of knitted portraits of women who played a major role in the history of computing.
I'm super happy to find back my old family here in Lurk/Mastodon (you know who you are :) ). 
2020: New Orleans bans police use of #facerecognition, recognizing it to be dangerous and invasive.
2022: Crime panic causes city to reverse course and reinstate face recognition despite earlier concerns.
2023: Face recognition has led to zero arrests. https://gizmodo.com/facial-recognition-new-orleans-police-no-arrests-1850692101
Gizmodo · New Orleans' Facial Recognition Systems Led to Exactly Zero Arrests in Nine Months