'Facial recognition tech mistook me for wanted man'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqxg8v74d8jo
#facialrecognition in action. You don't want to be the false positive.
Even before #palantir this is violating everyone's rights of #privacy

'Facial recognition tech mistook me for wanted man'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqxg8v74d8jo
#facialrecognition in action. You don't want to be the false positive.
Even before #palantir this is violating everyone's rights of #privacy
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
Another ID Verification System Gets Hacked, 13,000 IDs Exposed
Large platforms have been rushing to implement age verification systems. The long warned about security issues are continuing to happen.
https://www.freezenet.ca/another-id-verification-system-gets-hacked-13000-ids-exposed/
“The [UK] government should halt the expansion of facial recognition, before we sleepwalk into a surveillance state.”
It’s “invasive, harmful and should not be used, let alone expanded, without parliamentary scrutiny or public debate.”
ORG’s Sara Chitseko on the Met #Police doubling the use of this tech.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/met-police-double-its-use-live-facial-recognition-technology
Spotify Threatens to Delete Your Account If You Don’t Comply With Age Verification
UK Spotify users are now being threatened with account deletion if they refuse to comply with government mandated age verification facial recognition scanning.
My brother resides in the United Kingdom with his wife and children. Today, he completed installing FaceAge on his bedroom door, as a precautionary measure in case his kids unexpectedly enter the bedroom at an inopportune time.
YouTube to Deploy Crappy AI to Enforce Age Verification… on Americans
American users are going to encounter an awful AI system trying to determine their age on YouTube soon.
https://www.freezenet.ca/youtube-to-deploy-crappy-ai-to-enforce-age-verification-on-americans/
#Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access #Explicit Content
#privacy #facialrecognition #biometrics
https://www.404media.co/spotify-uk-age-check-verification-yoti/
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.
Facial recognition technology “may take advantage of already ubiquitous existing camera infrastructure” and is “often mined without our consent for biometrics.” Read our TPPA support letter: epic.org/wp-content/u...
#FacialRecognition #FRT #TSA #Biometrics
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#FacialRecognition: How to protect yourself from #surveillance
https://tuta.com/blog/facial-recognition-how-to-avoid-surveillance
UK Age Verification Trivially Defeated With Video Game Characters
There's a second way to defeat UK age verification gates. All it takes is a video game character and you are in.
https://www.freezenet.ca/uk-age-verification-trivially-defeated-with-video-game-characters/
Surveillance is the new normal, especially due to facial recognition technologies.
Dive into our latest guide on facial recognition & discover the steps you can take to reclaim your anonymity & avoid surveillance.
https://tuta.com/blog/facial-recognition-how-to-avoid-surveillance
Man is Wrongfully Jailed For Heinous Crime Due To Facial Recognition Technology https://www.byteseu.com/1220976/ #aifacialrecognition #Arrest #civilrights #facialrecognition #Technology
Roblox Throws its Players Under the Bus. Implements Age Verification
Roblox decided to make their game more privacy invading by requiring facial recognition scans for age verification purposes.
There was a time when trying to respect people's privacy online was seemingly
https://www.freezenet.ca/roblox-throws-its-players-under-the-bus-implements-age-verification/
"[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."
Inside #ICE’s Supercharged #FacialRecognition App of 200 Million Images
https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-supercharged-facial-recognition-app-of-200-million-images/
That’s what we need, Bunnings and others to use facial recognition to identify/misidentify people and act summarily as their own courts of law. Soon they will demand their own police force to meet a problem that is not that serious. This is Australia and we don’t need this intrusion into our privacy.
#bunnings #facialrecognition #privacy #auspol
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/consumer/2025/07/17/bunnings-facial
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
https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-supercharged-facial-recognition-app-of-200-million-images/
ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
This biometric systems built for one reason can be repurposed for another, a constant fear and critique from civil liberties proponents of facial recognition tools.
#ice #dhs #facialrecognition #biometrics #surveillance #privacy #technology #tech