FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester The criminal complaint lists a pink gas mask and a forearm tattoo as distinct clues that led investigators to use third-party software to help make an arrest.
“Technology has transformed the act of being in public,” Crump said. “People who engage in political protests need to understand that it’s very difficult to do that anonymously.”
Since June, 23 people have been arrested on charges connected to ICE protests in Southeast Portland.
it’s good to know that the US must be in fantastic shape that the FBI even has the resources to spend on this.
All this is going to do is drive the resistance underground and into guerrilla warfare tactics. When we can’t peaceably voice our displeasure, our outrage, we’ll take to less peaceful eays.
I heard fbi had unedited Epstein files, why are they not working on putting Trump in prison?
Because the call is coming from inside the house
Because Trump put him there?
More of this western freedom I’ve been hearing so much aboot.
It’s pretty simple.
When your society values freedom and thinks it lacks it, and movies like “Blade Runner”, “Robocop”, “Total Recall” are popular, - then it has freedom.
When your society values freedom (in words) and thinks it definitely has it, and movies like those are considered funny, gross and stupid rebellion against authority, or at least not how it literally just is, while we now know better, - then it gets ass-raped.
A-and if many people were using their brains to evaluate Google and Facebook, we wouldn’t have reached this stage because parallels are very easy to draw and such systems were the main threat of plenty of sci-fi.
A lot of the problems we have now seem to be due to people in Western democracies becoming complacent and taking their rights for granted. Fascism has surged so rapidly in part because people complacently treated it as some kind of aberration that could only happen in the first half of the 20th century, and assumed “we’re better than that now.”
Kinda fucked up
Always wear non-descript long-sleeve black shirts. Loose fitting and easily moved in black pants. Non-descript black face-mask. Non-descript black safety sunglasses. Non-descript black gloves. Make sure tattoos or other identifying marks are covered. Never take off your mask. If you can, the best option is to thrift these options and buy them with cash.
There’s also gait detection, so maybe wear something like platform shoes or tight pants? I’m not entirely sure how to counter that
Butt plugs
Smart butt plugs that scramble their face detection software.
And face plugs to scramble their butt detection software
Gotta have airtight opsec.
Has anyone ever been successfully prosecuted based on gait?
Surely they will prosecute in a legal manner, surely the fascists will follow the law.
ok but that’s paranoia, who’s to say your faked gait won’t get someone else hanged then?
gait isn’t proof of identity, if they’re gonna do that they can just round you up anyway
Hypothetically speaking, one can put a pebble or small object in their shoe to force oneself to change their gate
I think I’ve heard putting a rock in your shoe is effective, though obviously not comfortable.
Walk with a limp and be consistent.
Wear a butt plug?
Most don’t change the way you walk if your ass is a veteran.
Ok, remove the buttplug, then.
3D ass chess
That’s easy to say, but it’s also easy to forget to limp if you’re focused on something else. Maybe you have to run from riot cops.
Cory Doctorow says put gravel in your shoes. Yrmv
Just one shoe
I heard walking with umbrellas will confuse gait detection but idk if true
Also, don’t post your face on social media.
That’s the hardest part, I guess.
Buy it from Goodwill and throw it away at the dump later
Surely a white surgical facemask is more generic.
I feel like black is better at hiding detail. Women’s slips are black vs white for example.
Black is traditional but someone will be in surgical blue
“Technology has transformed the act of being in public,” in fact it instills fears of reprisal by participating in a manifestation, which leads to less people manifesting against problems, which leads to more freedom of those in power to do as they will…
Perhaps Mandalorians were onto something
This is the way. Sadly.
But they go to pains to make their armor and masks unique, so 🤷♂️
Not that much, in the EU they had color meanings and decorations, and in KotOR armor color meant position in hierarchy and merit, but other than that - pretty similar armor sets.
It’s a bit like with usual clothes. Faces are still not visible. Finding a Mandalorian in red armor with a decoration of knotted rope on the left side of their helmet and with a backpack and such and such bag is not as easy as just match a face in the database.
Nobody gonna mention that he was throwing rocks and nailed a pig in the face? Nobody? This is not some harmless protestor. This guy directly assaulted a cop. Don’t know what you expect them to do.
I don’t gotta problem with it, but his actions were illegal as hell. Before anyone says it, no, they wouldn’t deploy this tech if you or I were the victim. But you can hardly blame the state for protecting their own.
Before anyone says it, no, they wouldn’t deploy this tech if you or I were the victim
That is one way to gather more control (divide and conquer), and once they have it, they will use it more often and on those that are against them:
- First they go after those the threw rocks - Fine by me, I wasn’t throwing rocks.
- Then they go after those who held rocks - Fine by me, I wasn’t holding rocks.
- Then they go after those who wore masks - Fine by me, I wasn’t wearing no masks.
- Then they go after those who were shouting - Fine by me, I wasn’t shouting.
- Then they go after those who were in the protest - Ups, that’s me, who can help me with this? No one, there’s no one left to fight against them… bye…
and cops are hitting non-violent protestors in the face with rubber bullets
boohoohoo don’t dish it if you can’t take it
Shooting innocent journalists with rubber bullets.
It was an ICE agent at a protest. Not condoning throwing rocks at anyone but have you seen videos out of Portland?
ICE has been brutalizing the fuck out of protestors, especially in Portland. I would like to say I would never do that, but if I saw an ICE agent or anyone using unnecessary force against a friend or my family for peacefully protesting (which I’ve seen happen to multiple people, and that shit is definitely not ok) I cant honestly say I would react in the most calm and level headed way either.
They do directly address this in the article though, and the main issue is not so much that they used the technology, but again the fact that there is no oversight or regulation for its use.
Catherine Crump, a professor at UC Berkeley Law School who leads a law, technology and public policy clinic, said the use of facial recognition technology in this particular case was “as justifiable as it gets.”
“That said, it’s really problematic that we’ve done as bad a job as we have in this country at regulating the use of technology like this; there should be clear rules of the road,” Crump said.
She pointed out flaws in facial recognition technology, citing research that’s shown it to have racial bias in being worse at identifying Black people and other minorities.
“We need safeguards to ensure that this powerful technology is used in a way that advance legitimate law enforcement interests, but that stave off possibilities of abuse," Crump said.
After how many felony charges were dropped in LA from police falsifying testimony, I’d have to see a full recording of him throwing a rock and hitting the cop to believe they had the right guy and the pictures weren’t unrelated.
Sure! That comes out in court.
You literally assumed the article was correct and said ‘his actions were illegal as hell’ when all it has is a picture of him throwing a rock. Your comment seems to presume guilt but I’m going to assume he’s innocent until there’s actual evidence shown.
Fine. We’ll never talk about anything again until the proof comes out in court. I’m down.
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Buy 10 rubber masks that resemble your own face. Wear one, sometimes. Make sure all your friends know that! Sell the other 9 pieces somewhere, anonymously.
Then you can say: their evidence is worthless, because that camera has never seen my real face. You can never know if it was me.
Watch them try to prove anything ;-)
Don’t stake your freedom on contrived technicalities.
Fortunately, it would likely never even make it in front of a judge. If you do manage to waste a judge’s time with this garbage, be prepared for your attorney (and/or you) to have an unpleasant day.
Nathan for You idea
Yes, the Nazis were revered for the comprehensive trials that occured before shipping any Jew off to a concentration camp.
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