A little-known multi-agency drug war group runs thousands of #facialrecognition scans and other #surveillance operations. We found over 37,000 requests for support, connecting at least 233 #lawenforcement organizations in #Minnesota and beyond.
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"...[Sara] says after her bag was searched she was... banned from all stores using the #Technology.
"I was just crying and crying the entire journey home… 'Oh, will my life be the same? I'm going to be looked at as a shoplifter when I've never stolen'.
"#Facewatch later wrote to Sara and acknowledged it had made an error..."
The police used a Beyonce gig as an excuse to deploy live facial recognition.
The creeping use of this tech is alarming, especially with concerns about its accuracy and efficacy. We should be able to expect privacy and not be ID’d without cause.
Would you put up with being fingerprinted as you go to the shops? Or give DNA as you go to work? Or have your face compared to a database just for going to a gig?
Porcha Woodruff was getting her two children ready for school when police officers presented her with an arrest warrant alleging robbery and carjacking, court documents show.
Cameras can be identified by location and type, the area being observed can be disclosed.
Surveillance under Surveillance/https://sunders.uber.space is an OpenStreetMap instance focused on surveillance cameras, it uses data that is not visualized on the OpenStreetMap.org instance.
#BWI#airport will lessen your hassle of getting on a plane in return for your agreeing (you actually have no choice) to #facialrecognition - they scan your license into the db - "check" verify your #identity - which is BS. The claim is that they do not keep this profile, but of course they do - they profile at most airports in the US, and the data goes upstream. The #surveillancesociety has been here for a very long time folks.
If Congress is going to give the FAA $105 billion, they need to bake in a ban on dangerous and discriminatory #FacialRecognition tech that the TSA is saying they're bringing to 400+ airports nationwide.
The decision by the European Parliament to ban AI systems of biometric mass surveillance in public spaces is welcome. It should be reflected in the UK.
We must protect civil liberties from the encroachment of the state that’s leading us down the road of predictive policing.
Perhaps the most dystopian story you will read this week. Cops used DNA to create a 3D model of a suspect's face... and then tried to run it through facial recognition software
#Wise customers are now expected to consent to retention and disclosure to partners of #biometric facial information for up to a year simply to continue using their accounts, and even when not required by local financial regulations.
The New York Times reports the tech has mistakenly identified people as connected to Hamas. Israel has deployed a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip, creating a database of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent, The New York Times reports. The program, which was created after the October 7th attacks,...
#UK#Surveillance#PoliceState#Biometrics#FacialRecognition#DataProtection: "Britain is an “omni-surveillance” society with police forces in the “extraordinary” position of holding more than 3m custody photographs of innocent people more than a decade after being told to destroy them, the independent surveillance watchdog has said.
Fraser Sampson, who will end his term as the Home Office’s biometrics and surveillance commissioner this month, said there “isn’t much not being watched by somebody” in the UK and that the regulatory framework was “inconsistent, incomplete and in some areas incoherent”.
He spoke of his concerns that the law was not keeping up with technological advances in artificial intelligence (AI) that allow millions of images to be sorted through within moments and that there were insufficient checks and balances on the police."
🧵 NEW CAMPAIGN! The UK government is ramping up the use of #FacialRecognition tech (FRT) on our streets - including plans to expand the use of FRT in retail spaces, alongside the unfettered roll out of FRT in policing.
#Privacy#DigitalRights#Surveillance#FacialRecognition: "Over the past decade, there has been a steep rise globally in law enforcement using facial recognition technology. Data gathered by Steven Feldstein, a researcher with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, found that government agencies in 78 countries now use public facial recognition systems.
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The public is often supportive of the use of such tech: 59% of U.K. adults told a survey they “somewhat” or “strongly” support police use of facial recognition technology in public spaces, and a Pew Research study found 46% of U.S. adults said they thought it was a good idea for society. In China, one study found that 51% of respondents approved of facial recognition tech in the public sphere, while in India, 69% of people said in a 2023 report that they supported its use by the police.
But while authorities generally pitch facial recognition as a tool to capture terrorists or wanted murderers, the technology has also emerged as a critical instrument in a very particular context: punishing protesters."
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Detroit woman sues city after being falsely arrested while pregnant due to facial recognition technology (www.nbcnews.com)
Porcha Woodruff was getting her two children ready for school when police officers presented her with an arrest warrant alleging robbery and carjacking, court documents show.
Israel quietly rolled out a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip (www.theverge.com)
The New York Times reports the tech has mistakenly identified people as connected to Hamas. Israel has deployed a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip, creating a database of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent, The New York Times reports. The program, which was created after the October 7th attacks,...