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 threadRick Mycroft

@eff I don’t know about the gimmick of extrapolating a face from DNA, but facial recognition’s false positive rate jumps over the Moon outside of white males. So… working as designed.

I’m only shocked that they missed a trifecta of pseudo-science by having AI generate a video of their simulated perp committing the crime. (As a guide rather than evidence, but guaranteed to poison police attitudes towards a false positive suspect, because they'll "remember" seeing them commit the crime.)

Mar 31, 2024 at 1:26pmWeb