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Deep learning is revolutionizing gait recognition, offering non-invasive, long-distance identification! This article reviews recent advancements, challenges, and applications in forensics, security, and healthcare. 
Secure your read here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11323174/ #GaitRecognition #DeepLearning #Biometrics
This fucking "digital or nothing" approach to travel even further restricts flight to the rich (and those who feel no need to worry about the abuse of their data). #Privacy #Biometrics #Travel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRWRNiRx0_k
I'm sorry!
What now?!
Discord's New Age Verification Requires ID Or Face Scans For Some Users
Age Verification Using Facial Scans
Discord is testing the feature:
“We’re currently running tests in select regions to age-gate access to certain sp... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/age-verification-using-facial-scans.html
Via #LLRX @psuPete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, 4/12/25 5 highlights - #Biometrics vs. #passcodes: What lawyers recommend if you’re worried about #warrantless phone searches; #DDoS Attacks Now Key Weapons in Geopolitical Conflicts, NETSCOUT Warns; #Google Maps doubles down on preventing fake reviews; Large number of US adults view #AI as a threat: Report; Explosive Growth of Non-Human Identities Creating Massive #Security Blind Spots https://www.llrx.com/2025/04/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-april-12-2025/ #privacy
Check-in ade: Luftfahrtbranche will Abfertigung und Reisenachweis digitalisieren | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Check-in-ade-Luftfahrtbranche-will-Abfertigung-und-Reisenachweis-digitalisieren-10349954.html #Digitalisierung #digitalization #Biometrie #biometrics #Gesichtserkennung #FacialRecognition #Datenschutz #privacy
Facial Recognition bypassed by criminals using creepy masks that look a bit like 007 Goldeneye NPC faces.
#security #EU #technology #biometrics #crime #opsec #facialrecognition
#LLRX #CyberSecurity @bespacific
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 12, 2025
Five highlights from this week: #Biometrics vs. passcodes: What lawyers recommend if you're worried about warrantless phone searches; #DDoS Attacks Now Key Weapons in Geopolitical Conflicts, #NETSCOUT Warns; Google Maps doubles down on preventing fake reviews; Large number of US adults view AI as a threat: Report; and Explosive Growth of Non-Human Identities (#NHI) Creating Massive Security Blind Spots.
Navigating the Digital Privacy Minefield: Biometrics vs. Passcodes in Law Enforcement
As smartphone searches by law enforcement become more commonplace, the debate over the efficacy of biometrics versus passcodes intensifies. Experts weigh in on the legal implications and the evolving ...
#Europol-Studie ordnet biometrische Identifizierung kritisch ein | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Europol-beleuchtet-Schwachstellen-biometrischer-Identifizierung-10348132.html #Datenschutz #privacy #Biometrie #biometrics #CyberCrime #Gesichtserkennung #FacialRecognition #Fingerabdruck #fingerprint
"Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/ #surveillance #biometrics #evil #clearview #travel #facialrecognition #uspol
@evangreer @fightforthefuture.org @bsky.app @guardianproject @internetarchive @torproject 
Your first line of defense is still basic digital hygiene:
- Lock phones w/ a strong passphrase, *not* #biometrics
- Turn off fingerprint/face unlock: biometric unlocking can be compelled
- Don’t bring devices that hold all your stuff. Practice app and device compartmentalization
>Various AI-powered software programs were purchased under the governor’s border disaster declaration or in response to Abbott’s executive orders to prevent mass attacks, agency records show.
The defense sector is all a big grift.
>Several AI companies, including those that sell tech to DPS, have registered lobbyists in Texas this session, according to state records, including Clearview AI, Flock Safety, and LEO Technologies, which sells the Verus surveillance software. One company also has connections to state law enforcement in Texas: Skylor Hearn, a former DPS deputy director, was a registered lobbyist for Clearview AI in 2020 and 2021 and joined the company as its government affairs director in 2022. During his tenure at the firm, he testified in other states against banning or limiting police use of facial recognition tech. This session, Clearview AI has three registered lobbyists in Texas.
The revolving door keeps revolving.
>The Republican lawmaker cautioned that, while he would not necessarily call the agency’s capabilities a “dragnet,” he had concerns about protecting Texans’ privacy: “It does come into question whether we are creating a wide area of study of people who have not committed a crime and trying to use that for law enforcement purposes.”
"That's not bullshit. It's repurposed bovine waste."
>Meanwhile, Senator Parker’s bill, SB 1964, would require Texas agencies to more thoroughly report on how they use AI and what risks of “unlawful harm” these systems have. Under the bill, state agencies would be required to create impact assessments of any AI-powered tools they deploy—though the reports would be considered confidential and exempt from the Texas Public Information Act.
Intelligence for me but not for thee.
>“People want to make sure that the government isn’t just surveilling people who aren’t doing anything wrong just because they can. ..."
Completely missing the point. The government *defines* what "doing anything wrong" *is*. "Only going after bad guys" is tautological nonsense in this context.
>Shah, the attorney from Just Futures Law, said the dangers of surveillance technologies are easily overlooked because they are not viewed as inherently or imminently violent.
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>“It’s just that it’s creating the infrastructure in which you can be harmed,” Shah said. Plus, she added, many surveillance tools were originally designed for warfare, or by former military intelligence personnel, and should be viewed through that lens and not as the “soft side” of policing, which is how some AI companies market the tools.
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>“These are wartime technologies that are now in the hands of local cops,” she said. “We should be really worried.”
At least one person quoted in the article understands the problem. Talk about burying the lede, @TexasObserver :P
"Over the past several years, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has quietly built out an expansive surveillance apparatus—one that’s increasingly powered by artificial intelligence. Many of these technology acquisitions have been made under the auspices of Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star, an $11 billion program that has supercharged the state’s decades-long border militarization.
The powerful and well-funded state police agency has not just expanded its existing surveillance capabilities, which include a fleet of spy planes, unmanned drones, and a network of wildlife game cameras that are deployed all across the borderlands of Texas, but it also is increasingly using AI-powered software to perform intelligence gathering.
DPS records obtained and reviewed by the Texas Observer in recent months shed new light on the scope of the state police’s surveillance toolbox. The agency has spent millions acquiring an array of powerful—and controversial—artificial intelligence software tools that can mine billions of images to provide facial recognition, track vehicle locations from automatic license plate readers, monitor phone conversations of inmates in Texas prisons and jails, break into and search for data evidence from seized cell phones and computers, and even track cell phones without a warrant."
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/
"It’s a dangerous time for protest rights in the UK. The government has introduced a bill that would make it a criminal offence to conceal your identity at a protest.
The crime and policing bill establishes an offence if a person conceals their identity within a specifically designated area in England or Wales. That is, an area where the police believe that a protest is taking place, or is likely to take place, and that involves, or might involve, the “commission of offences” (people breaking the law).
These powers are preemptive and vague – how is the “likelihood” of a protest or offences determined? What specific “offences” does the bill refer to? What safeguards exist? Ultimately, the bill does not appear to place any real limits on the degree of discretion extended to the police.
The passage of this bill would have significant implications for the right to anonymity in public places. It is unparalleled among liberal democratic states, bringing UK practice into line with Russia, Hungary and China."
"The Hungarian Parliament has significantly restricted the fundamental right to freedom of assembly in Hungary. In connection with the disproportionate and unnecessary restriction of fundamental rights, a number of important aspects can be highlighted, and great attention has also been paid to the fact that in the event of a possible violation of the prohibition of assembly, the participants will also commit a misdemeanor, for which they can be fined (a fine of up to EUR 500 can be imposed).
In the process of detecting violations and applying legal consequences, facial image analysis (facial recognition) is used to identify, even from a distance, citizens who appear at an unauthorized assembly. In this post, I focus on the use of facial recognition systems, because this is also a very important tool of restriction of the fundamental right of assembly, which is a serious restriction of the freedom of citizens, if only by the mere possibility of using the tool can discourage many people from exercising their democratic rights (presumably this was the purpose of the legislation)."
#EU #Hungary #Biometrics #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #FreedomofAssembly
#privacy #FacialRecognition #biometrics #WorldClassPetty
"A concert on Monday night at New York’s Radio City Music Hall was a special occasion for Frank Miller: his parents’ wedding anniversary. He didn’t end up seeing the show — and before he could even get past security, he was informed that he was in fact banned for life from the venue and all other properties owned by Madison Square Garden (MSG)."
https://www.theverge.com/news/637228/madison-square-garden-james-dolan-facial-recognition-fan-ban
Madison Square Garden’s #surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design | The Verge
#biometrics #msg #facialrecognition
https://www.theverge.com/news/637228/madison-square-garden-james-dolan-facial-recognition-fan-ban
UK's first permanent facial recognition #cameras installed • The Register
The #MetropolitanPolice has confirmed its first permanent installation of live facial recognition ( #LFR ) cameras is coming this summer and the lucky location will be the South #London suburb of #Croydon
#facialrecognition #biometrics #privacy
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/27/uk_facial_recognition/