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EFF Suggests Halloween Costume To Protest Facial Recognition Databases (eff.org)
An anonymous reader writes:
EFF's list of costume ideas for digital rights activists include a Stingray costume, dressing up like a Privacy Badger (or a patent troll), and using facepaint to simulate the eerie digitization algorithms that are currently capturing images of your face for government databases. "Just this week we learned that facial recognition is far more prevalent among local and federal law enforcement than we thought, with at least 26 states using this biometric technology... To draw attention to this emerging threat to privacy, you can use your face painting skills to recreate the digitization algorithms on your own mug based on public records we and others have obtained from law enforcement agencies."
Sixteen states already grant the FBI access to their DMV databases, reports EFF, noting that it's "almost completely unregulated," with one study reporting that 50% of American faces are already in a government database.
Sixteen states already grant the FBI access to their DMV databases, reports EFF, noting that it's "almost completely unregulated," with one study reporting that 50% of American faces are already in a government database.
Because the real spirit of Halloween is protesting things.
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
I can't vouch for the accuracy of this site, but it looks like most of us are okay although I have seen signs in convenience stores before telling people that masks were not allowed inside.
State Codes Related To Wearing Masks
Some states that do have laws have exemptions, like Minnesota:
unless based on religious beliefs, or incidental to amusement, entertainment, protection from weather, or medical treatment
Perhaps if we were to draw dick pics on our faces, it might confuse these systems into identifying us as an altogether different species...
... the many-faced god. Come to think of it, both organizations operate in eerily similar ways...
I am not interested in articles about life extension advancements.
If you're going to the Halloween meeting of your local Linux user group...otherwise, not so much.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
1. take a photo of your own face.
2. run it through google deep dream
3. inkjet print the result in makeup directly on your face
4. spend Halloween as a slutty beholder.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
There are no anti-mask laws in the United States.
But 'murica is "land of the free, home of the brave." Until one attack happens and then it becomes "home of the sissy cucks afraid of their shadows."
Jersey Mike's here in the midwest is the only store I've seen with a sign that says no masks allowed.
I'd be ashamed to walk into a Jersey Mike's without wearing a mask.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Jersey Mike's here in the midwest is the only store I've seen with a sign that says no masks allowed.
I'd be ashamed to walk into a Jersey Mike's without wearing a mask.
Yeah, but that gets too confusing, because the staff there is generally trying to conceal their shame already. If the let us wear masks, too, nobody would know who the customers were.
Mmm, inexplicably wet sandwich.
Uh, yes there are. I mean, I don't think there are any "no masks whatsoever, under no conditions at all, we mean it" laws, but there are laws that prohibit masks.
http://law.lis.virginia.gov/va...
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
Mmm, inexplicably wet sandwich.
As opposed to Subway, where it's explicably wet: http://tosh.cc.com/blog/files/...
Nope, no sig
Run face recognition on them and project their Facebook profile, or their browser history if you feel ambitious.
"...with one study reporting that 50% of American faces are already in a government database"
I'd be surprised if it was only 50%. Just between the DMV and Facebook (which the NSA admits they mine for data) I think it'd be higher than that.
There are about 214 million licensed drivers in the U.S. according to Statista (https://www.statista.com/statistics/191653/number-of-licensed-drivers-in-the-us-since-1988/). That's about 67% of the 319 million people in the US as of 2014.
If the NSA admits to mining Facebook, it's reasonable to think they're probably mining other social media sites like Pinterest, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc etc.
Add Facebook and all the other social media sites that get mined and I wouldn't be surprised to find 80 or 85% of American faces are in a government database.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Changed what exactly? I could never actually figure out what they were arguing for or against.
Have gnu, will travel.
The violation of any provisions of this section is a Class 6 felony.
They even made it a felony!
'The tyrant will always find pretext for his tyranny.' - Aesop's Fables
Well, there was this one time that a group of individuals set about protesting the fact that the government had confiscated all of their personal weapons which that government actually deemed (at that time) to be personal property and allowable to be kept by its citizens and the point of the protest was to have them returned. Around that same time some other citizens were also protesting something about tax stamp requirements.
A not-so-careful reading of history suggests that a whole lot changed as a result of those protests.