Fadó fadó, after the economic crash in Ireland, I was out of a job and on welfare payments. One day, I got an "appointment" letter from the Department to get a PSC card - it also said that if I didn't attend, they would stop payments.
"Department of Social Protection fined €550k for unlawful database of millions of Irish people's faces" from PSC applications:
#MastoDaoine #DataProtection #GDPR #DPC #Biometrics #FacialRecognition #FRT
La búsqueda de rostros mediante inteligencia artificial se extiende sin obstáculos - https://netzpolitik.org/2025/behoerden-schauen-zu-ki-suche-fuer-gesichter-breitet-sich-ungehindert-aus/ #facialrecognition #privacy #privacidad #ia
Wow! Bulgarian Data Protection Authority: ‘Theft or attempted theft in the conditions of a "minor case" under the Criminal Code cannot be a reason of important public interest within the meaning of the #GDPR to turn customers of a store into '#walking_barcodes’.’ #FacialRecognition https://cpdp.bg/%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b0%d0%bd%d0%be%d0%b2%d0%b8%d1%89%d0%b5-%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%ba%d0%b7%d0%bb%d0%b4-%d0%be%d1%82%d0%bd%d0%be%d1%81%d0%bd%d0%be-%d0%b8%d0%b7%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%b7%d0%b2%d0%b0%d0%bd%d0%b5-2/
Meanwhile, last UK government was going full-speed to faciliate live facial recognition across the country's supermarkets. What next? #inadequacy
Using Face ID? Just know: facial recognition tech stores a map of your face—sometimes locally, sometimes in the cloud.
🤳 It’s convenient, but:
• Can be forced (think arrests or border stops)
• Isn’t foolproof—twins, photos, deepfakes?
• Normalizes biometric surveillance
📌 Use a strong passcode.
📌 Disable Face ID in sensitive moments.
📌 Know your rights.
#FacialRecognition #Privacy #iPhone #Biometrics #DigitalRights
The LA Clippers are building the future of tech in sports, with facial recognition powering a new fan experience https://www.rawchili.com/nba/89307/ #Basketball #Clippers #experience #FacialRecognition #GillianZucker #HaloSports #LA #LAClippers #LAClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #NBA #SportsBetting #SteveBallmer #tech
Halo Sports CEO on future of tech in sports https://www.rawchili.com/nba/89116/ #Basketball #career #Clippers #FacialRecognition #LA #LAClippers #LAClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesClippers #MostPowerfulWomen #MPWDaily #NBA #Sports #SteveBallmer
"An LAPD helicopter flew over demonstrators, warning them that they could be identified and visited at home. Experts claim this was a chilling statement, even if it was meant as a joke."
Cybernews: LA activists worried by implicit police threats to deploy mass facial rec technology https://cybernews.com/news/los-angeles-protests-facial-recognition/ @cybernews #facialrecognition #privacy
"Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, despite his U.S. citizenship and Social Security card, was arrested on April 16 on an unfounded suspicion of him being an “unauthorized alien.” Immigration and Customs Enforcement kept him in county jail for 30 hours “based on biometric confirmation of his identity”—an obvious mistake of facial recognition technology. Another U.S. citizen, Jensy Machado, was held at gunpoint and handcuffed by ICE agents. He was another victim of mistaken identity after someone else gave his home address on a deportation order. This is the reality of immigration policing in 2025: Arrest first, verify later.
That risk only grows as ICE shreds due process safeguards, citizens and noncitizens alike face growing threats from mistaken identity, and immigration policing agencies increasingly embrace error-prone technology, especially facial recognition. Last month, it was revealed that Customs and Border Protection requested pitches from tech firms to expand their use of an especially error-prone facial recognition technology—the same kind of technology used wrongly to arrest and jail Lopez-Gomez. ICE already has nearly $9 million in contracts with Clearview AI, a facial recognition company with white nationalist ties that was at one point the private facial recognition system most used by federal agencies. When reckless policing is combined with powerful and inaccurate dragnet tools, the result will inevitably be more stories like Lopez-Gomez’s and Machado’s.
(...)
[W]ith the recent rapid increase of ICE activity, facial recognition risks more and more people arbitrarily being caught in ICE’s dragnet without rights to due process to prove their legal standing. Even for American citizens who have “nothing to hide,” simply looking like the wrong person can get you jailed or even deported."
#USA #Trump #PoliceState #Surveillance #FacialRecognition #Biometrics #Immigration #Deportation
#DemocracyNow 🚨 🚨 #Alert 🚨 🚨
'These Companies Are Not Your Friend': #Journalist #CaroleCadwalladr on #Facebook, #OpenAI, #PALANTIR, & More
#Tech #TechBroligarchy #GovernementSurveillance #DigitalJustice #Privacy #DataHarvesting #FacialRecognition #ClearviewAI #AIn #CambridgeAnalytica #GenerativeAI #Broligarchy #DigitalTheft #DataRapists #SiliconValleyFascists #ChatGPT
It starts with immigrants, and you are next.
Facial Recognition mistakes are dangerous, but its potential for abuse when working as intended is even scarier.
"Because of the immense power of facial recognition to target political enemies & indiscriminately deport any of us, & because the system’s racially biased inaccuracy is already causing wrongful arrests, banning facial recognition is an essential step toward preventing authoritarian overreach."
#Surveillance #Dystopian #Orwellian #FacialRecognition #Privacy
Slate: “Because of the immense power of facial recognition to target political enemies and indiscriminately deport any of us, and because the system’s racially biased inaccuracy is already causing wrongful arrests, banning facial recognition is an essential step toward preventing authoritarian overreach.”
also Slate - giant, page-obscuring popover: “We need to talk about your ad blocker”
yes, I know these two things are not the same. but they are both part of US-led #SurveillanceCapitalism & the #SurveillanceState(s) that it enables
Woman put on facial recognition list and barred from shop over 39p paracetamol dispute. #FacialRecognition #ai #MinorityReport #ICO #dataprotection #biometrics #crime #CrimePrevention #PII #FaceWatch #BigBrother
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/06/shopper-facewatch-watchlist-39p-paracetamol-london
a general reminder to avoid shops that deploy Facewatch UK cameras
being put on a watchlist over 39p of paracetamol is a new level of cruelty from them. all this while UK gov't is betting heavily on AI, including facial recognition
#Privacy #Security #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #UnitedKingdom #UK
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
What ICE does is, excluding their decision to wear masks, unconstitutional.
Their right to hide their identity is protected explicitly by the Fourth Amendment, and so is mine, and yours, and everyone else's.
In this regard specifically, you're not going to beat them, so you might as well join them.
If you want to walk down the street while wearing a mask for some reason that has nothing to do with COVID, or simply to hide your face, or for no particular reason whatsoever, you sure can.
Your person includes your face.
#USpol #ICE #MaskUp #FacialRecognition #Privacy #PrivacyMatters
Now out in #DAHJ:
“Beyond Hairstyle: Roman Imperial Portraits and Facial Recognition Software”
What happens when we leave out the emperors’ hairstyles?
This article explores DCNN-based methods to identify Roman portraits without relying on coiffure — revealing new pathways for digital art history.
🔗 https://dahj.org/article/beyond-hairstyle
#DigitalArtHistory #ComputerVision #FacialRecognition #RomanArt #AI #Iconography
Für alle die unseren Vortrag:
„Ganz schön (Un)sichtbar - wie #kunst und #design auf #gesichtserkennung reagiert“
auf der re:publica verpasst haben, hier könnt ihr ihn in live und in Farbe anschauen.
👉https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpfvyVIuRjc
#rp25 #republica #genxyz #festival #privacymatters #teamdatenschutz #privatsphare #datenschutz #antisurveillence #adamharvey #fashion #speak #talk #vortrag #art #digitalArt #internetofthings #surveillance #facialrecognition #netzpolitik
InterLink makin mendunia!
🔐 Diakui oleh NIST AS bareng raksasa teknologi dunia kayak Samsung & Canon
🏛 Diundang eksklusif oleh New York Stock Exchange buat bahas masa depan identitas manusia di Web3
Ini bukan project halu ini masa depan Web3 beneran.
Lo masih ragu? Jangan sampe nyesel pas udah viral nanti!
🎯 Langsung gabung & buktiin sendiri:
👉 https://bit.ly/3SnD6n3
📌 Kode: 82386466
#InterLink #ITLG #FacialRecognition #CryptoViral #WajibGarap #AirdropHunter #CryptoIndonesia #RealHuman
"Asda secretly scanning customers' faces - Don’t shop there until you watch this..."
Data privacy experts are calling on the government to urgently tighten regulation around facial recognition technology, amid growing concerns over its unregulated use by police forces and private companies across the UK.
#Police secretly monitored #NewOrleans with #facialrecognition cameras
Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the #UnitedStates.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/19/live-facial-recognition-police-new-orleans/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQ3NjI3MjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQ5MDA5NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NDc2MjcyMDAsImp0aSI6Ijc3Zjc1OTQ1LTg5NzAtNDIxYy1iYzgxLTIyNmQ1MjI5OWEwYyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9idXNpbmVzcy8yMDI1LzA1LzE5L2xpdmUtZmFjaWFsLXJlY29nbml0aW9uLXBvbGljZS1uZXctb3JsZWFucy8ifQ.XAF7CUOY6M4YeWdhUkBUBZco3H4qXUwcz_i3vsaEcIo
#privacy #surveillance
