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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@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.
Mar 31, 2024 at 2:45pmWeb