Das Performance und Künstlerdou Lea Karnutsch und Ferdinand Doblhammer zeigen unsere Faception T-shirts in Aktion! 
#FaceRecognition
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cweickhmann I thing Budapest Pride has the potential to show how bad the false positive rate of face recognition really is. If Orbàn dares to test it. Given how his ban was simply ignored, I doubt he dares because that would certainly jeopardise his power. But who knows. Maybe sucking up to Putin or his and his goons' own inner repressed self demands it.
Side note: unlike being queer, face recognition is banned in the EU (unless national security, lalala), so I can only hope the rather queer-unfriendly conservative folks for the most part in control of the EU commission do respect the rule of law and prosecute this breach of the ban in every single case.
Le Monde · A la Marche des fiertés de Budapest, une foule immense défie l’interdiction de Viktor Orban : « On n’a jamais vu autant de monde »
Lust Kameras mit Gesichtserkennung zu verwirren?
https://urban-privacy.com/de/products/faception-t-shirt-unisex-schwarz
Age Verification Using Facial Scans
Discord is testing the feature:
“We’re currently running tests in select regions to age-gate access to certain sp... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/age-verification-using-facial-scans.html
Schneier on Security · Age Verification Using Facial Scans - Schneier on SecurityDiscord is testing the feature: “We’re currently running tests in select regions to age-gate access to certain spaces or user settings,” a spokesperson for Discord said in a statement. “The information shared to power the age verification method is only used for the one-time age verification process and is not stored by Discord or our vendor. For Face Scan, the solution our vendor uses operates on-device, which means there is no collection of any biometric information when you scan your face. For ID verification, the scan of your ID is deleted upon verification.”...
As the USA is rivalling China in surveillance and repression technologies (including concentration camps, etc.) it's now advisable to get off US hosted social media, not to provide information that can be used for identification, etc.
Big Brother is at risk of developing an inferiority complex as the infrastructure for automated thought police is now getting abundant, cheap, and in the right hands.
#socialmedia #facerecognition #surveillance #repression #AI
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/09/clearview_founder_exceo_ousted
The Register · Founder of facial-rec controversy biz Clearview AI booted from board
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/18/hungary-bans-pride-events-and-plans-to-use-facial-recognition-to-target-attenders Hungary bans pride events and plans to use #FaceRecognition. An attack on #FreeSpeech, #HumanRights and #privacy.
The Guardian · Hungary bans Pride events and plans to use facial recognition to target attenders
The EU’s #AIAct prohibitions are now in effect! But gaps remain. Learn more: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/ai-act-prohibitions-february-2025/
Now banned in the EU: #ManipulativeAI, AI that exploits people's vulnerabilities, #SocialScoring, #Scraping of facial images on the internet, Live #FaceRecognition in Public Spaces. Others are partially banned, like #PredictivePolicing, #EmotionRecognition, and more.
strip-p-ed out
A 3 months #research around #patterns to bypass #cctv #facerecognition.
Tested with #opencv.
Project done in the #fabricademy, a programme over textile and technology, at the @greenfabric node.
I knitted 2 kimonos on a #kniterate, a semi-industrial #machineknitting with deadstock yarns. The 3rd one is a deadstock fabric whose pattern was already a working #camouflage for opencv.
The project is fully documented here:
http://class.textile-academy.org/2024/stephanie-vilayphiou/project/
Concerning cctv surveillance, France has recently gone crazy over it... it seems like they want to recognise logos from organisations in protests and faces associated with them... does someone know an opencv algorithm to detect specific images? Or does it necessarily go through machine learning?
Hello Mastodon,
Here's my #introduction post.
Former #graphicdesigner and #webdeveloper at #OpenSourcePublishing, I gradually turned my practice to #textiledesign. Still exploring free and open source software, programming but in relation to many textile techniques.
My main practice is #knitting, #machineknitting and #visiblemending. But I love to explore any #fiberarts related #technique.
In 2020, I joined the #textile #fablab @GreenFabric in #brussels where I like to build / #hack #machines for textile.
In 2024, I joined the #Fabricademy programme ( #textile and #technology) where I made digitally knitted garments to bypass #CCTV #facerecognition.
I am now a Fabricademy instructor!
A little picture as intro: My Mother was a Computer. Title borrowed from media theoretician Katherine N. Hayles. This is the opening piece of a series of knitted portraits of women who played a major role in the history of computing.
I'm super happy to find back my old family here in Lurk/Mastodon (you know who you are :) ). 
Police Use of #FaceRecognition Continues to Wrack Up Real-World Harms
#biometrics #privacy #facialrecognition
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/police-use-face-recognition-continues-wrack-real-world-harms
Electronic Frontier Foundation · Police Use of Face Recognition Continues to Wrack Up Real-World HarmsPolice have shown, time and time again, that they cannot be trusted with face recognition technology (FRT). It is too dangerous, invasive, and in the hands of law enforcement, a perpetual liability. EFF has long argued that face recognition, whether it is fully accurate or not, is too dangerous for...
#FaceRecognition Threatens to Replace Tickets, ID at Sports Events – and Beyond
companies involved are already planning big expansions, raising the specter of a world where our faces become not just our ticket at sports stadiums, but a passport we’re forced to show across society.
#biometrics #facialrecognition #rights #privacy #security
American Civil Liberties Union · Face Recognition Threatens to Replace Tickets, ID at Sports Events – and Beyond | ACLUYou shouldn't participate in face recognition ticketing schemes.
Sports stadiums in the U.S., are turning increasingly towards facial recognition in order to save time, and therefore money, by shortening lines at stadium entrances.
From MLB to the NFL, fans across the country are being offered express entry into sports grounds if they opt in to the technology. However, privacy advocates argue that these kinds of surveillance tools are never totally secure, make it easier for police to get information about fans, and fuel “mission creep” where surveillance technology becomes more common, or even required. @WIRED has more.
https://flip.it/Tdp8Pn (subscription may be required)
#Stadiums Are Embracing #FaceRecognition. #Privacy Advocates Say TheyShould Stick to #Sports
Protesters took to #CitiField Wednesday to raise awareness of the facial recognition systems that have become common at major league sporting venues.
#facialrecognition #biometrics
https://www.wired.com/story/face-recognition-stadiums-protest/
Weak "Guardrails" on #Police #FaceRecognition Use Make Things Worse
#biometrics
Electronic Frontier Foundation · Weak "Guardrails" on Police Face Recognition Use Make Things WorsePolice use of face recognition technology (FRT) poses a particularly massive risk to our civil liberties, particularly for Black men and women and other marginalized communities. That's why EFF supports a ban on government FRT use. Half-measures aren't up to the task.However, even as half-measures...
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-the-met-police-using-facial-recognition-surveillance
"The Metropolitan Police has started using live facial recognition cameras across London. This surveillance technology turns us into walking ID cards and treats members of the public like suspects in a high-tech police line up. These cameras are a threat to our privacy and freedoms – and they need to be stopped.
The Met’s own stats show live facial recognition to be over 80% inaccurate and more likely to misidentify innocent people of colour as potential suspects. A court even found that police had been using this technology unlawfully."
#privacy #ukpol #FaceRecognition
38 DegreesStop the Met Police using facial recognition surveillanceThe Metropolitan Police has started using live facial recognition cameras across London. This surveillance technology turns us into walking ID cards and treats members of the public like suspects in a high-tech police line up. These cameras are a threat to our privacy and freedoms – and they need to be stopped.
The Met’s own stats show live facial recognition to be over 80% inaccurate and more likely to misidentify innocent people of colour as potential suspects. A court even found that...
https://libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/met-police-computers-access-dangerous-facial-recognition-search-engine/
"Scotland Yard has banned officers from using a controversial facial recognition search engine described as “invasive and dangerous” by MPs after it was accessed thousands of times from Metropolitan Police computers"
"Pimeyes – a website that allows users to upload photos and identify where images of an individual appear elsewhere on the internet – was visited from Met Police computers 2,337 times in just one three month period, according to a freedom of information request submitted by Liberty Investigates. Unlike Met-approved facial recognition tools, Pimeyes could be accessed by any officer or staff member without official records of searches or safeguards around whose photos are being searched."
#privacy #ukpol #FaceRecognition
Liberty InvestigatesMet police computers access 'dangerous' facial recognition search engine - Liberty InvestigatesOfficers and staff from the Metropolitan Police Force have been banned from accessing Pimeyes after a probe by Liberty Investigates and i news
#Detroit Takes Important Step in Curbing the Harms of #FaceRecognition Technology
#privacy #biometrics #surveillance
Electronic Frontier Foundation · Detroit Takes Important Step in Curbing the Harms of Face Recognition TechnologyIn a first-of-its-kind agreement, the Detroit Police Department recently agreed to adopt strict limits on its officers’ use of face recognition technology as part of a settlement in a lawsuit brought by a victim of this faulty technology. Robert Williams, a Black resident of a Detroit suburb, filed...