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Global civil society and experts statement: Stop facial recognition surveillance now - European Digital Rights (EDRi) (edri.org)

submitted 1 year ago by naut@infosec.pub to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if 3M reflective tape works against facial recognition surveillance.

[+] SurpriZe@lemm.ee -6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's AI. You can't outsmart it. EU aren't idiots, man...

[–] Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

....but it's a camera, right? EU doesn't affect me anyway, I'm in the US. I'm just curious.

[–] SurpriZe@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean by "it's a camera"??

EU does affect you. You are not living in a bubble. We are all in the same boat. But that's not what I meant at all, I said that where this is happening, you won't trick them so easily because they actually put effort into what they're doing...

[–] Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So if I cover my face with 3M reflective tape like a goddamn shiny mummy before I left the house, the facial recognition software would still know it's me? That's all I'm asking at this point.

[–] SurpriZe@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Would you do that every single day of your life, no matter the circumstances and never ever slip even a little bit?.. that's exactly how these systems have data on everyone. And AI makes it so a human doesn't have to waste 2000hrs to detect it where you stumbled once.

[–] sizzling@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The way you walk is apparently also unique per human so you might have to take up a limp or something similar.

[–] books@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I listened to an episode of hardfork and the interviewee was trying to figure more about a ai company that had a db of faces, and Everytime she had her face run, the company apparently was notified and pulled access of the end user almost immediately

Shits fucking scary

[–] SurpriZe@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Link?

[–] books@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/podcasts/breaking-bard-who-owns-your-face-gamer-news.html?

it's the second story in about 19~ ish minutes in if you don't want to listen to the whole thing.

[–] bh64@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I wish I was in the EU to sign this.

I hope they listen to you this time, even if politicians hardly ever listen to the people.