Electronic Frontier FoundationMar 31, 2024
Not only is this full dice-roll policing, it also threatens the rights, freedom, or even the life of whoever is unlucky enough to look a little bit like that artificial face. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/cops-running-dna-manufactured-faces-through-face-recognition-tornado-bad-ideas
Cops Running DNA-Manufactured Faces Through Face Recognition Is a Tornado of Bad Ideas

In keeping with law enforcement’s grand tradition of taking antiquated, invasive, and oppressive technologies, making them digital, and then calling it innovation, police in the U.S. recently combined two existing dystopian technologies in a brand new way to violate civil liberties. A police force...

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Show threadDud (Mx)
@eff I thought the key to crime detection was narrowing down the number of suspects, not making EVERYONE a fucking suspect! 😡
Mar 31, 2024 at 1:13pmWeb
Show threadTom MagnanimousMar 31, 2024
@BackFromTheDud @eff if the goal is finding the actual perpetrator, maybe, but the goal is and always has been to have an excuse to pin it on whoever you've decided you don't like