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#facialrecognition

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I first listened to this episode of Search Engine last year. It was terrifying then. But in the light of what ICE is doing in America right now, I have no words.

There's a logic towards fascism that it inevitably collapses under it's own folly. That in time, democracy will prevail. I think the surveillance capability of the world we now live in changes all that. Orwell was mostly right, he just had the date wrong.

https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/should-this-creepy-search-engine

Search Engine with PJ Vogt · Should this creepy search engine exist?By PJ Vogt

ATTN NY: We're joining partners at Stop Spying NY in a call to action!

#FacialRecognition misidentifies women, children, and people of color- and NYC is bringing more of this dangerous tech into Black + Brown communities who are already vulnerable to police bias and discrimination.

Help us to #BanTheScan by asking NYC council speaker Adrienne Adams to call a vote on Intros 217 & 425 to keep New Yorkers safe from biased tech in our homes and grocery stores.

banthescan.org

Ban the ScanBan the ScanBan Facial Recognition in New York

"[O]ne does not have to have sympathy or empathy for a CEO to see how this sort of thing could and often does go off the rails. This example is emblematic of the problem specifically because it’s easy to laugh at these people and because they’re doing something distasteful, but not illegal. The same technologies used to dox and research this CEO are routinely deployed against the partners of random people who have had messy breakups, attractive security guards, people who look “suspicious” and are caught on Ring cameras by people on Nextdoor, people who dance funny in public, and so on. There has been endless debate about the ethics of doxing cops and ICE agents and Nazis, and there are many times where it makes sense to research people doing harm on behalf of the state or who are doing violent, scary things in to innocent people. It is another to deploy these technologies against random people you saw on an airplane or who had a messy breakup with an influencer. And of course, these same technologies are regularly deployed by police and the feds against undocumented immigrants, regular people, and people wanting to visit the United States on tourist visas."

404media.co/the-astronomer-ceo

404 Media · The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance DystopiaFacial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.

Inside ICE’s Supercharged #FacialRecognition App of 200 Million Images

#ICE officers are able to point their smartphone’s camera at a person & near instantaneously run their face against a bank of 200 million images, then pull up their name, date of birth, nationality, unique identifiers such as their “alien” number, & whether an #immigration judge has determined they should be #deported from the country, according to ICE material …
#dhs #deport #deportation #privacy

404media.co/inside-ices-superc

404 Media · Inside ICE’s Supercharged Facial Recognition App of 200 Million Images404 Media has seen user manuals for Mobile Fortify, ICE’s new facial recognition app which allows officers to instantly look up DHS, State Department, and state law enforcement databases by just pointing a phone at someone’s face.