On the Cyber podcast, a wild investigation into how a researcher at University of North Carolina used gender transition videos on YouTube -- without permission -- to build facial recognition software for trans people. His rationale? Terrorists might do HRT in order to evade facial recognition systems, sneak over the border and blow stuff up. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-trans-dataset-built-without-permission-and/id1441708044?i=1000592769166 #transrights #trans #data #privacy #AI
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@annaleen wut 👀
@malcircuit the best part of the pod is the ethics researcher who uncovered the shenanigans delivering the complete and total smackdown to this transphobic garbage
@annaleen @malcircuit smackdowns can’t come fast enough for this nonsense.
@annaleen I listened to the pod and I'm glad they broke down why this is unethical trash. UNCW’s Karl Ricanek sounds like an absolute dick. The guy should be shitcanned for the rest of his career for this.

@annaleen I'm absolutely furious over this. Thanks for ruining my night lol

jk, I don't blame you. Thank you for sharing this

@malcircuit it pissed me off too, but I'm really glad that it's being so thoroughly debunked
@annaleen Because HRT is just something people do to be nefarious? These people!
@annaleen what the everlasting fuck!?
@annaleen I feel like a lot of people really overestimate how motivated your average person is.
@leahbobet transphobia is a helluva drug
@annaleen @charliejane OH FOR FUCK’S SAKE, PEOPLE. This reminds me of Schneier’s movie-plot terrorist threat contests years ago. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/06/second_movieplo.html
Second Movie-Plot Threat Contest Winner - Schneier on Security

@rmd1023 @charliejane Apparently the researcher got the idea because one of his students showed him a transition video and told him that HRT would be a great way to evade facial recognition. I wonder if the student was trolling him?

@annaleen @rmd1023 @charliejane some poor egg saying hahaha wouldn't it be wild if I looked like a woman hahaha wouldn't that be crazy hahaha I'd look so pretty hahaha

I suspect.

@annaleen I'd be shocked if the US government hasn't already done this years ago, and you'll never know about it. The 3-letter agencies and U.S. Marshals went big on facial recognition technology ten years ago and today it's everywhere.

You don't hear about it and you won't hear about it because it would reveal what they know and what they have.

@annaleen I expected transphobia to connect up to Islamophobia somewhere, but I thought there would be at least a couple of intermediate steps
@chronodm With the wonders of AI, everything comes together more quickly