Age verification laws and propositions forcing platforms to restrict content accessed by children and teens have been multiplying in recent years. The problem is, implementing such measures necessarily requires identifying each user accessing this content, one way or another. This is bad news for your privacy.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/06/age-verification-wants-your-face/
Hungary’s new #BiometricSurveillance laws violate the EU #AIAct
The expansion of the use of #FacialRecognition technology in Hungary is incredibly concerning. The government plans to use it to track and identify people attending peaceful assemblies, such as #BudapestPride, and for minor infractions.
The EU must act urgently to protect our #FundamentalRights 
Read our full analysis with @ecnl, Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, & Civil Liberties Union for Europe 
https://edri.org/our-work/hungarys-new-biometric-surveillance-laws-violate-the-ai-act/
US #Border Agents Are Asking for Help Taking Photos of Everyone Entering the Country by Car
Customs and Border Protection has called for tech companies to pitch real-time face recognition technology that can capture everyone in a vehicle—not just those in the front seats.
#privacy #cpd #facialrecognition #biometrics #surveillance
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-photo-everyone-in-vehicle-us-border/
Facial Recognition at the Border: A Tech Challenge for CBP
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection is ramping up its facial recognition capabilities, seeking innovative solutions to capture and verify the identities of every vehicle passenger at border crossin...
https://news.lavx.hu/article/facial-recognition-at-the-border-a-tech-challenge-for-cbp
"Sam Altman’s iris-scanning, identify-verification technology startup says it will begin expanding to the US starting May 1 and will launch a phone-like hardware device by next year. Those changes—and a promised World-branded debit card—signal the company’s ambitions to develop a “super app”—a goal shared by Elon Musk.
Altman and Alex Blania, a German physics researcher, announced at an event in San Francisco Wednesday evening that their venture-backed company, Tools for Humanity, is updating its “World” products to include a new, smaller, eye-scanning orb. The device-and-app combo scans people’s irises, creates a unique user ID, stores that information on the blockchain, and uses it as a form of identity verification. If enough people adopt the app globally, the thinking goes, it could ostensibly thwart scammers.
Altman has expressed concern about the amount of fakery that new AI tools will enable, including the generative AI tools pioneered by his other startup, OpenAI, which is valued at $300 billion. So the World app, and its hardware component, are Altman’s solution to the problem."
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-orb-eyeball-scan-launch-us/
Why You Can (And Should) Opt Out Of #TSA #FacialRecognition Right Now
“This time I spent more time in #Hangzhou, the hometown of #Geely, the company that had invited me to AutoShanghai. Walking around that city of 13 million was a reminder that, when most #cars are #electric, things are much more pleasant.
The #air in Hangzhou is surprisingly clean, the #NoiseLevels low. You can hold a normal conversation even when walking across an open overpass over a busy intersection (though they don’t mind using their horns).
Another thing to note is the extraordinary #cleanliness. There is no graffiti, no vandalism, no obvious #homelessness or #poverty. It feels safe, it feels thoroughly #modern. Our #Marriott hotel, for example, had robots delivering room service. I shared a lift with one, and it chatted away the whole time, though in #Mandarin.
Of course, all this progress and order has been achieved at a great, and many would say unacceptable, price. There are #cameras watching something close to your every move, and people keeping the #score. #FacialRecognition #technology is rampant. It was a requirement to be scanned to enter #AutoShanghai.”
The (car) #future isn’t the #USA.
<https://archive.md/ygHNO / <https://www.afr.com/world/asia/this-is-how-far-the-chinese-car-industry-has-come-in-20-years-20250428-p5luwm> (paywall)
#Milwaukee police consider trade: 2.5 million mugshots for free #FacialRecognition access
#Milwaukee police considering trading #mugshots for facial recognition tech
Officials from the Milwaukee #Police Department say swapping the photos with the software firm #Biometrica will lead to quicker arrests and solving of crimes. But that benefit is unpersuasive for those who say the trade is startling, due to the concerns of the #surveillance of city residents and possible federal agency access.
#privacy #facialrecognition
Not with my face: The Paraguayan State deploys facial recognition without transparency or oversight
In Paraguay, the use of biometric surveillance technologies is expanding without public knowledge, debate, or legal frameworks to ensure the protection of our fundamental rights. Facial recognition cameras are already in
https://www.tedic.org/en/not-with-my-face-the-paraguayan-state-deploys-facial-recognition/
Implementation of facial recognition cameras by the Paraguayan State
This study analyzes the implementation of facial recognition cameras in Paraguay, highlighting key concerns related to transparency, human rights and corruption. Since 20181, TEDIC has warned about the risks and potential ineffectiveness of these techn
@Nonilex .. #FacialRecognition .. Not to mention the data and photos from ATMs and vending machines, but also from social media, cell phones, computers, video chats, etc.
The #FBI has its own “Next Generation Identification” #biometric & #criminal-history #database program; the agency also has a #FacialRecognition apparatus capable of matching people against >640M photos—a database made up of #DriversLicense & #passport photos, as well as mug shots. The #SocialSecurity Admin keeps a master #earnings file, which contains the “individual earnings histories for each of the 350+ million SSNs that have been assigned to workers.”
Hungary on an EU watchlist over surveillance at Pride.
The European Union is looking into whether Hungary’s plan to deploy facial recognition technology to identify people attending LGBTQ+ Pride events is illegal.
The move by the EU sets up the latest clash between Brussels and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government as Hungary becomes an increasingly troublesome member of the bloc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL34WpoETds
How Governments Spy on Protesters -- and How to Avoid It
#Tech #techsurveillance #imagerecognition #facialrecognition #ClearviewAI #pigs 
#ACAB #FuckAmazon #identificationtechnologies #datastorage #protest #socialmedia #activists #DataMiner
Dear fucking god, no...
https://gizmodo.com/discord-begins-testing-facial-scans-for-age-verification-2000590188
What could possibly go wrong? Luckily hackers are really bad at acquiring this kind of data.
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