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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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[–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Do you have a reliable link to show this? I'm asking not to challenge or sealion, but because I'd like to know the limits of what you're referring to for my own safety and privacy.

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

    Thanks. I think that's enough to see where you're going. It's on me to find better evidence, so I looked and it looks like a 2020 NIST report suggests masks increase the failure rate in 89 tested algorithms from 0.3% to 5-50%.

    https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2020/07/nist-launches-studies-masks-effect-face-recognition-software

    That failure rate is enough to give plausible deniability and reasonable doubt in a court, I'd wager. But I'm sure ICE sees a higher failure rate a feature since it likely gives them more pretexts to arrest. At least we know the technology isn't reliable enough to support it.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    I mean court’s not really a factor. The surveillance tech is only to help identify targets. One they nab you that’s it. The Supreme Court already ruled that it’s ok for them to target people based only on race. The confidence level of the tech against your covered face is sorta irrelevant in this scenario.

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