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The #FBI has its own “Next Generation Identification” #biometric & #criminal-history #database program; the agency also has a #FacialRecognition apparatus capable of matching people against >640M photos—a database made up of #DriversLicense & #passport photos, as well as mug shots. The #SocialSecurity Admin keeps a master #earnings file, which contains the “individual earnings histories for each of the 350+ million SSNs that have been assigned to workers.”

#Trump#law#privacy

Artificial intelligence and human rights: our contributions to the 192nd session of the IACHR

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) held an official regional hearing on "Artificial intelligence and human rights" during its 192nd session. This space provided us with an opportunity to discuss the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on fundament

tedic.org/en/ai_iachr2025/

🚨 The European Commission must act now to defend #FundamentalRights from Hungary's #PrideBan and the use of #FacialRecognition against protestors 🚨

✊🏾 EDRi, in a coalition of 24 CSOs, is calling on the Commission to ensure that the #HumanRights of #LGBTQIA+ people in #Hungary and beyond are protected. The organisers and people marching at hashtag#Pride in Budapest should be able to safely and peacefully assemble and protest 🏳️‍🌈

Read our collective demands ⤵️ edri.org/our-work/civil-societ

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@nullagent
Of course the best answer (for a given definition of best) is to avoid the region and make it as unprofitable as practicable, while finding ways to support conventional policing and strengthen democratic institutions in other regions.

So it is therefore clearly on a completely unrelated note that I share this link to amusing printed masks of your favourite topical celebrities and politicians, (from a Chinese supplier, please do share a link to manufacturers in friendlier states, if anyone has one).

aliexpress.com/item/1005008613

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