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

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

Struggling with Face RD App Error 9913 while using Aadhaar-enabled services? Here’s a guide to troubleshoot and resolve face recognition issues for a smoother experience. Check out the full article for step-by-step instructions: https://www.izoate.com/blog/face-rd-app-error-9913-troubleshooting-face-recognition-issues-for-aadhaar-enabled-services/ #Aadhaar #FaceRecognition #Error9913 #TechTroubleshooting #Izoate #tech #technology #howto

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 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.

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Some more pictures of the #patterns to bypass #cctv #facerecognition.

Picture 1: data visualisation of CCTVs ratios in 5 European cities (cctv/surface, cctv/population, cctv/crime index). #knitting on the #kniterate machine

Picture 2: doodled stripes on #inkscape with hatches paste effect. #knitting on the #kniterate machine

Picture 3: #sewing a ready-made pattern from deadstock fabrics

Picture 4: Exhibition view. A visitor trying the garment with live CCTV face recognition (#opencv)

Model: Élodie Goldberg
#fabricademy project 2024

For more info see my previous post!

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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

»The #PaperPassport Is Dying: #Smartphones and #facerecognition are being combined to create new #digitaltravel documents. The paper passport’s days are numbered—despite new privacy risks.« https://www.wired.com/story/the-paper-passport-is-dying/?eicker.news #tech #media

#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

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/face-recognition-threatens-to-replace-tickets-id-at-sports-events-and-beyond

Two Students Created #FaceRecognition Glasses. It Wasn’t Hard.
#privacy

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/technology/facial-recognition-glasses-privacy-harvard.html

#CivilRights Commission Pans #FaceRecognition Technology
#privacy #biometrics

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/civil-rights-commission-pans-face-recognition-technology

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

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/why-weak-guardrails-police-face-recognition-use-may-actually-make-things-worse

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

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

#Detroit Takes Important Step in Curbing the Harms of #FaceRecognition Technology
#privacy #biometrics #surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/detroit-takes-important-step-curbing-harms-face-recognition-technology