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my fellow communists --- is this the country we want? redacted watching us 24/7?

too, this is why some (redacted) still wear the covid makkses. what do the redacted do about this? the stupid covid makks defeats their AI spy grid

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Cobb Commissioners approve the Police Dept’s use of facial recognition technology to fight crime​

 
a little blurb about the wonderful company that got the contract above -- running in the same lanes as the fbi/cia social media websites

too, this little gem offers their AI generated data about you to private interests

Clearview AI - Wikipedia

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In January 2020, Twitter sent a cease and desist letter and requested the deletion of all collected data.[6] This was followed by similar actions by YouTube (via Google) and Facebook in February.[7] Clearview sells access to its database to law enforcement agencies and has 3,100 active users[8] including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security according to The Wall Street Journal.[9][10][11][12][13] However, contrary to Clearview's claims that its service is sold only to law enforcement, a data breach in early 2020 revealed that numerous commercial organizations were on Clearview's customer list
 
cheka said:
my fellow communists --- is this the country we want? redacted watching us 24/7?

too, this is why some (redacted) still wear the covid makkses. what do the redacted do about this? the stupid covid makks defeats their AI spy grid

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Cobb Commissioners approve the Police Dept’s use of facial recognition technology to fight crime​

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The phone thumbprint scanners are a huge stepping stone.

It's always as a matter of security.

Thus people are made to feel insecure.

"Kill your TV" has very profound inner meaning beyond the obvious.
 
Newmisty said:
The phone thumbprint scanners are a huge stepping stone.

It's always as a matter of security.

Thus people are made to feel insecure.

"Kill your TV" has very profound inner meaning beyond the obvious.
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indeed they are. redacted wants badly to require biometric internet ID for home/laptop puters too
 
Lotta false positives with facial recognition software. Causes problems for innocent peeps. Not good.
 

New Jersey Woman Reveals Dangers of Growing Use of Facial Recognition​

By: Mike Maharrey | Published on: Dec 26, 2022

When we warn about the growing pervasiveness of facial recognition systems, people often shrug and say, “it’s no big deal if you have nothing to hide.”

The experience of a New Jersey woman illustrates the dangerous flaw in that thinking.

Kelly Conlon went to New York City to enjoy the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall with her daughter’s Girl Scout troop. But Conlon was denied entry when facial recognition identified her.

Is Conlon a criminal or a dangerous terrorist?

No.

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tenthamendmentcenter.com

New Jersey Woman Reveals Dangers of Growing Use of Facial Recognition | Tenth Amendment Center

The "this is a private company, it can exclude whom it pleases" argument aside, the incident reveals the power of facial recognition technology and databases. This should concern everybody given the rapid expansion of government facial recognition systems and the pervasiveness of data-sharing...
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Power in the wrong hands is no good.

I don't like him = block him - I don't like him = ban him - I don't like him = delete him

Facial Recognition Used to Deny Entry to Bldg Owner's 'Enemies'​

Steve Lehto
Dec 26, 2022


People who had tickets to events were told they could not enter because they were lawyers whose firms had sued the owner's company.
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Facial recognition is an invasive and dangerous surveillance technology. When the government moves forward with pilot programs that will, if fully implemented, subject millions of people on a daily basis to the technology that should give us all pause. Currently the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is running two different pilots that use of facial recognition technology to confirm travelers’ identity. As explained below, this is a mistake—not only because of the ongoing privacy and bias issues but because of the long term implications of using our face as our ID. That is why EPIC has previously urged Congress to suspend TSA’s use of facial recognition technology and supports the call by several Senators earlier this year for TSA to halt the technology’s use.
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... TSA should not be implementing the use of facial recognition. Unfortunately, despite the potential privacy and bias risks, TSA’s Biometric Roadmap makes clear that TSA has every intention of implementing the use of facial recognition at airports across the country. This is a problem because any current claims by TSA about how they are protecting privacy and the voluntariness of the program ring hollow in light of the fact that there are no meaningful restrictions on how TSA implements the use of facial recognition technology. This is because the United States lacks an overarching law to regulate the use of facial recognition to ensure the necessary transparency, accountability, and oversight to protect our privacy, civil liberties, and civil rights.
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Don’t Take It at Face Value: Why TSA’s Implementation of Facial Recognition is More Dangerous Than You Think

<p>Facial recognition is an invasive and dangerous surveillance technology. When the government moves forward with pilot programs that will, if fully implemented, subject millions of people on a daily basis to the technology that should give us all pause.</p>
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... what Clearview did was not a technological breakthrough, it was an ethical one. They were just willing to do what others hadn’t been willing to do.
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Rite Aid banned from using facial recognition software after falsely identifying shoplifters​

Rite Aid has been banned from using facial recognition software for five years, after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found that the U.S. drugstore giant’s “reckless use of facial surveillance systems” left customers humiliated and put their “sensitive information at risk.”

The FTC’s Order, which is subject to approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court after Rite Aid filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in October, also instructs Rite Aid to delete any images it collected as part of its facial recognition system rollout, as well as any products that were built from those images. The company must also implement a robust data security program to safeguard any personal data it collects.

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Rite Aid banned from using facial recognition software after falsely identifying shoplifters | TechCrunch

Rite Aid has been banned from using facial recognition software, with the FTC highlighting the drugstore's "reckless" use of AI surveillance.
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Today's shoplifters and looters simply wear face diapers now that they have been normalized. Talk about unintended consequences. Prior to the scamdemic, it was against the law to wear a mask in public. At least in my state.
 

Cops Running DNA-Manufactured Faces Through Face Recognition is Tornado of Bad Ideas​

In keeping with law enforcement’s grand tradition of taking antiquated, invasive, and oppressive technologies, making them digital, and then calling it innovation, police in the U.S. recently combined two existing dystopian technologies in a brand new way to violate civil liberties. A police force in California recently employed the new practice of taking a DNA sample from a crime scene, running this through a service provided by US company Parabon NanoLabs that guesses what the perpetrators face looked like, and plugging this rendered image into face recognition software to build a suspect list.

Parts of this process aren't entirely new. On more than one occasion, police forces have been found to have fed images of celebrities into face recognition software to generate suspect lists. In one case from 2017, the New York Police Department decided its suspect looked like Woody Harrelson and ran the actor’s image through the software to generate hits. Further, software provided by US company Vigilant Solutions enables law enforcement to create “a proxy image from a sketch artist or artist rendering” to enhance images of potential suspects so that face recognition software can match these more accurately.

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www.eff.org

Cops Running DNA-Manufactured Faces Through Face Recognition is Tornado of Bad Ideas

In keeping with law enforcement’s grand tradition of taking antiquated, invasive, and oppressive technologies, making them digital, and then calling it innovation, police in the U.S. recently combined two existing dystopian technologies in a brand new way to violate civil liberties. A police...
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Podcast Episode: About Face (Recognition)

Is your face truly your own, or is it a commodity to be sold, a weapon to be used against you? A company called Clearview AI has scraped the internet to gather (without consent) 30 billion images to support a tool that lets users identify people by picture alone. Though it’s primarily used by law...
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A coalition of civil society groups urged Senators Schumer, McConnell, Cantwell, and Cruz to pause the TSA’s expansion of facial recognition at airport security checkpoints. The coalition argues that the expansion must be paused for several reasons: 1) The potential for accuracy and bias issues with the facial recognition technology; 2) The lack publicly available, independent review of potential accuracy and bias issues in TSA’s use of facial recognition; 3) The failure of TSA to provide evidence for the agency’s claims that facial recognition makes traveling safer and more efficient; and 4) The shortcomings of the TSA’s current “opt-out” model.

epic.org

EPIC, Coalition to Senate: Pause TSA’s Facial Recognition Program Now

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Schumer won't care. McConnel is checked out (but likely wouldn't care either). The others don't matter. Unfortunately.
 
As cities and states push to restrict the use of facial recognition technologies, some police departments have quietly found a way to keep using the controversial tools: asking for help from other law enforcement agencies that still have access.

www.yahoo.com

These cities bar facial recognition tech. Police still found ways to access it.

As cities and states push to restrict the use of facial recognition technologies, some police departments have quietly found a way to keep using the controversial tools: asking for help from other law enforcement agencies that still have access. Officers in Austin and San Francisco - two of the...
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pmbug said:
Schumer won't care. McConnel is checked out (but likely wouldn't care either). The others don't matter. Unfortunately.
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And yet the majority in society who are idiots, keep re-electing them.

Either that, or our elections have been rigged for Decades now.
 
Minority leaders and speakers bring home the pork for the local folk. It's hard to vote against an entrenched incumbent unless something really riles up the people (like the Tea Party did briefly).
 
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Dallas police move forward with controversial AI surveillance tool | Frontline News

Invasive software has been misused by thousands of publicly funded agencies
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Dallas police move forward with controversial AI surveillance tool​

Invasive software has been misused by thousands of publicly funded agencies​


The Dallas Police Department has received the green light from the local city council to use Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition tool.

‘The world’s most controversial company'​

Clearview AI hosts a database with an estimated 30 billion facial images scraped from across the web. These include facial images taken from private social media accounts without the knowledge of their owners. This has drawn heavy criticism from privacy watchdogs and civil rights groups and has earned Clearview AI the title of “the world’s most controversial company.”
Nevertheless, the company has found success in marketing itself to law enforcement agencies for the purpose of finding the identities of persons of interest. Police officers can submit an image of a face to the Clearview AI database which will return any available matches.

Dallas police: A ‘game-changer’​

Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia is excited about using the technology. "I can tell you that it will be a game changer for our hardworking detectives to have this technology," Chief Garcia said.
Other law enforcement bodies that use Clearview AI include the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), whose Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit spent approximately $2 million to license the software.
But it is unknown for what other purposes DHS — or other agencies, for that matter — may be using Clearview AI or similar tools.

A history of misuse​

Dallas Police Major Stephen Williams claims the department will only use the database to investigate official crimes.
"This is not a license plate reader for humans. We have to have a criminal offense before we start doing things," said Major Williams, according to Fox 4.
But concerns still remain given past misuse of the software by government agencies.
A Buzzfeed report in April 2021 found that employees at over 1,800 publicly funded agencies have used Clearview AI often “without the knowledge or consent of their superiors.” These included military branches, health organizations, local and state police, state attorneys general, federal law enforcement and even public schools.

Clearview AI used against taxpayers after January 6th​

Clearview AI is also known for being heavily used by law enforcement after January 6th, 2021. Following the rally at the US Capitol, the company saw a surge in the use of its software, according to the company’s chief executive, Hoan Ton-That:
There was a 26 percent increase of searches over our usual weekday search volume.
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This was in part due to law enforcement bodies like the Miami and Oxford Police Departments using it to find taxpaying citizens who had been at the Capitol.

Breaking News​


 
pmbug said:
Minority leaders and speakers bring home the pork for the local folk.
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Because most people only care about what's in it for them, right now. With a big F' you! for future generations.


pmbug said:
In the case of write-ins, the 40% that voted for ballot candidates end up selecting the winner(s). Write-ins are mostly meaningless:

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Write-in candidates for federal and state elections | USAGov

Writing in a name on a ballot does not mean that vote will count. Get the facts on how to write in eligible candidates for federal and state elections.
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Speaking of write-ins, here's a little know factoid.

John Bolton writes in a vote for Dick Cheney every Presidential election. He said that in an interview I saw.
 
There are license plate readers up and down the highways too.
 
^ There will be a false flag and the alphabet agencies will claim if that software was implemented on everyone & everywhere that some mass casualty event could have been prevented...3, 2, 1.
 
Dexter could have saved a lot of time with it back in 2012.
 
www.eff.org

Face Scans to Estimate Our Age: Harmful and Creepy AF

Government must stop restricting website access with laws requiring age verification.Some advocates of these censorship schemes argue we can nerd our way out of the many harms they cause to speech, equity, privacy, and infosec. Their silver bullet? “Age estimation” technology that scans our...
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (April 18, 2025) – A bill introduced in the Minnesota House would ban the use of facial recognition technology for surveillance by government agencies. The proposed law would not only help protect privacy in Minnesota; it could also hinder one aspect of the federal surveillance state.

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Minnesota Bill Would Ban Government Use of Facial Recognition Surveilance | Tenth Amendment Center

The legislation would prohibit any state or local government entity or official from using, obtaining, accessing, or retaining a “face surveillance system” or information obtained from such a system. It would also bar state agencies from entering into an agreement or arrangement with a private...
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searcher said:
ST. PAUL, Minn. (April 18, 2025) – A bill introduced in the Minnesota House would ban the use of facial recognition technology for surveillance by government agencies. The proposed law would not only help protect privacy in Minnesota; it could also hinder one aspect of the federal surveillance state.

blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com

Minnesota Bill Would Ban Government Use of Facial Recognition Surveilance | Tenth Amendment Center

The legislation would prohibit any state or local government entity or official from using, obtaining, accessing, or retaining a “face surveillance system” or information obtained from such a system. It would also bar state agencies from entering into an agreement or arrangement with a private...
blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com
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Antifa will love this.
 
lens.civicus.org

Facial recognition: the latest weapon against civil society

Supercharged by advances in AI, states are increasingly using facial recognition technology to police dissent. Authoritarian states have pioneered the use of this technology, but more democratic governments are using it too, creating surveillance systems that often operate in secret and without...
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Facial Recognition: Tech Firms and Surveillance | ARTE.tv Documentary​

Nov 19, 2025 #artetvdocumentary #facialrecognition #videosurveillance
High-resolution cameras, facial recognition software, state-of-the-art video surveillance centres: Data Sources reveals how Western companies are helping the authoritarian regime in Kazakhstan to create a mass surveillance system.

Facial Recognition: Tech Firms and Surveillance | ARTE.tv Documentary📆 Available until 12/07/2029


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Sam Altman's iris-scanning World project wants a billion users – it's reached 2% of that goal​

Blockchain/crypto-based World has received a lot of attention over its use of its Palantír-like Orbs that scan users' irises to confirm their identity.

World's Orb uses infrared cameras and depth sensors to capture a detailed image of the eye, converts it into a unique digital code (an encrypted IrisHash), and checks this against a global database to ensure each person registers only once. If unique, the system issues a World ID, which can later prove someone is human without revealing their identity through zero-knowledge cryptography.

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Two years after the launch of the eye-scanning startup World the venture has reached 17.5 million users – less than 1 per cent of Mr Altman’s stated goal.
 
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