Will BeasonMar 31, 2024
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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)Mar 31, 2024
@eff I thought the key to crime detection was narrowing down the number of suspects, not making EVERYONE a fucking suspect! 😡
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
Show threadRick MycroftMar 31, 2024

@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.)

Show threadNosirrahSec 🏴‍☠️ guillotine enthusiastMar 31, 2024
@eff pigs need to be caged. We're letting dangerous murderers run wild with technology that they're too stupid to use.
Show threadElengaleMar 31, 2024

@eff It was the best of timelines. It was the worst of timelines.

What a dystopian world we live in.

Show threadGoblinMar 31, 2024

@eff Absolutely dystopian.

The amount of trust (and thus money), state authorities are putting in the promises tech bros are making, is astonishong.

Not only does it waste money, it also wastes police manpower in chasing non-scientifically made up faces.

Not to mention the stress it puts on innocent individuals, who now have to prove their innocence in a system, where charging innocents is absolutely NOT unheard of.

Show threadAsta [AMP]Mar 31, 2024
@eff "The process is yet to be independently audited, and scientists have affirmed that predicting face shapes—particularly from DNA samples—is not possible"

there might be one or two tiiiiiiiiny insignificant steps between "DNA" and "what's a person face looks like X years after they were born". totes not important though. I'm sure this company, catering exclusively to law enforcement, has definitely figured out how to perfectly correlate facial features with DNA sequences with an extremely biased dataset.
Show thread(moved)Galbinus Caeli 🌯Mar 31, 2024
@eff that is madness. And total police overreach
Show threadapemantusMar 31, 2024
@eff The rights and freedom of Woody Harrelsons