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Leak Shows ICE Planning to Use Facial Recognition Glasses to Identify Targets in Real Time (futurism.com)
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[–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What do you think what you posted even means? covering most of what it is using to identify is already going to make it drastically more difficult to match

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Not really. It’s trivial to match your face. If you use an iPhone with FaceID it won’t miss a beat. You have to cover your full face, head, and eyes.

    The problem with this is that the idea of “KN95 and a hoodie” is that you’d still reasonably blend in. By the time you reach the point t of covering every identified part of your head, you’d also stick out like a sore thumb which doesn’t help you when the camera surveilling you is attached to the face of an ICE agent looking specifically in your direction.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Face id is putting a very good camera very close to your face and asking it if the face inches from the screen and stationary with respect to the camera matches exactly one face.

    Facial recognition is asking a worse camera if a moving partially obscured face is one of 338M legal residents and citizens or potentially millions of illegal folks. Since this is inherently an incredibly harder task it doesn't take much to make it impossible.

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