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Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

Police across Britain equipped with live facial recognition bodycams

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Police across Britain equipped with live facial recognition bodycams

inews.co.uk

Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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'Live facial recognition is a dystopian mass surveillance technology which turns us all into walking ID cards,' one privacy group warned

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/3829409

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    IMO this is pretty shortsighted and going to affect all the wrong people, skimasks and balaclavas are a thing!

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      And so is a IR flashlight!

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      Easy enough fix for the government, just make them illegal.

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      Or dazzle makeup.

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        Or just an N95 mask

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          Socially acceptable, healthy, and private, win win win

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            Bring back balaclavas.

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        But the creator of this “CV Dazzle” makeup style said the patterns, which were designed to fool an older method of facial detection, won’t trick more sophisticated algorithms — though he and other experts said protesters can take steps to evade detection.

        https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/cv-dazzle-makeup-facial-recognition-protests/

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