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 threadGoblin

@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.

Mar 31, 2024 at 2:30pmWeb