ClydeR
12-09-2016, 01:08 PM
Half of all American adults are included in databases police use to identify citizens with facial recognition technology, according to new research that raises serious concerns about privacy violations and the widespread use of racially biased surveillance technology.
More... (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/18/police-facial-recognition-database-surveillance-profiling)
Numerous major police departments have “real-time face recognition” technology that allows surveillance cameras to scan the faces of pedestrians walking down the street, the report found. In Maryland, police have been using software to identify faces in protest photos and match them to people with warrants, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
The ACLU, which on Tuesday urged the US Department of Justice to investigate facial recognition, also revealed last week that Facebook and Twitter had provided users’ data to Geofeedia, with records suggesting that the social media sites had aided police in surveillance of protesters. The firms have since cut off Geofeedia’s special access to their data.
If you go out in public, then your face is public. You have no right to complain about the police recognizing you. If you're worried about it, you could try scrunching up you face like Alec Baldwin does when he's playing Donald Trump. That might fool the computers.
More... (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/18/police-facial-recognition-database-surveillance-profiling)
Numerous major police departments have “real-time face recognition” technology that allows surveillance cameras to scan the faces of pedestrians walking down the street, the report found. In Maryland, police have been using software to identify faces in protest photos and match them to people with warrants, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
The ACLU, which on Tuesday urged the US Department of Justice to investigate facial recognition, also revealed last week that Facebook and Twitter had provided users’ data to Geofeedia, with records suggesting that the social media sites had aided police in surveillance of protesters. The firms have since cut off Geofeedia’s special access to their data.
If you go out in public, then your face is public. You have no right to complain about the police recognizing you. If you're worried about it, you could try scrunching up you face like Alec Baldwin does when he's playing Donald Trump. That might fool the computers.