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How Governments Spy On Protestors—And How To Avoid It | Incognito Mode | WIRED
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Law enforcement’s ability to track and profile political protestors has become increasingly multifaceted and technology driven. In this edition of Incognito Mode WIRED Senior Editor, Security & Investigations Andrew Couts and WIRED Senior Writer Lily Hay Newman discuss the technologies used by law enforcement that put citizens' privacy at risk—and how to avoid them.

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#surveillance #privacy #government #facerecognition #twitter #socialmedia #protest #privacy #security #freedom

Thomas

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

theregister.com/2025/04/09/cle

Founder of facial-rec controversy biz Clearview AI booted from board

: From wanting to weed out far-Left, anti-Trump migrants…

The Register
Apr 14, 2025, 05:07 · · · 1 · 0
AlgorithmWatch

The EU’s #AIAct prohibitions are now in effect! But gaps remain. Learn more: algorithmwatch.org/en/ai-act-p

🚫 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.

Feb 02, 2025, 07:19 · · · 29 · 0
Stéphanie Vilayphiou

strip-p-ed out

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!

Stéphanie Vilayphiou

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:
class.textile-academy.org/2024

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?

Jan 28, 2025, 21:47 · · · 5 · 0
Stéphanie Vilayphiou

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 :) ). 💜

PrivacyDigest

#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

aclu.org/news/privacy-technolo

Face Recognition Threatens to Replace Tickets, ID at Sports Events – and Beyond | ACLU

You shouldn't participate in face recognition ticketing…

American Civil Liberties Union
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Flipboard Tech Desk

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 the 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.

flip.it/Tdp8Pn (subscription may be required)

#FaceRecognition #Biometrics #MLB #NFL #Tech

PrivacyDigest

#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

wired.com/story/face-recogniti

Scott Williams 🐧

This evening I fixed something that had been annoying me about the #facerecognition app UI in #Nextcloud with a bit of #javascript.

A race condition where slower queries would overwrite newer queries for an autocomplete drop-down, a condition more likely to happen the more names and images you have in your instance.