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Juggalos Figured Out How To Beat Facial Recognition (theoutline.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Outline: As if they weren't already doing the absolute most, the die-hard fans of the rap group Insane Clown Posse have become accidental heroes for people concerned about facial recognition tech: According to Twitter user @tahkion, a computer science blogger for WonderHowTo, Juggalo makeup outmatches the machine learning algorithms that govern facial recognition technology.
In a series of follow-up tweets, @tahkion explained that facial recognition works by pinpointing the areas of contrast on a human face -- for instance, where a nose is located, or where the chin becomes the neck. As it happens, juggalo makeup often involves applying black paint below the mouth, but above the chin. That makes facial recognition vulnerable to misidentifying the placement of the jaw. Face-painting styles like "corpse" makeup also obscure the face. However, they don't create enough contrast to effectively confuse most facial recognition systems. Dramatic styles of feminine makeup, like heavy eyeliner, also are generally not enough to confuse facial recognition systems, @tahkion claims. However, facial recognition tech such as Apple's Face ID, which does not rely on visible light and uses depth perception, would not be tricked by juggalo makeup.
In a series of follow-up tweets, @tahkion explained that facial recognition works by pinpointing the areas of contrast on a human face -- for instance, where a nose is located, or where the chin becomes the neck. As it happens, juggalo makeup often involves applying black paint below the mouth, but above the chin. That makes facial recognition vulnerable to misidentifying the placement of the jaw. Face-painting styles like "corpse" makeup also obscure the face. However, they don't create enough contrast to effectively confuse most facial recognition systems. Dramatic styles of feminine makeup, like heavy eyeliner, also are generally not enough to confuse facial recognition systems, @tahkion claims. However, facial recognition tech such as Apple's Face ID, which does not rely on visible light and uses depth perception, would not be tricked by juggalo makeup.
You could google, but probably better to just ignore the fact that juggalos exist...
Face is just one easy part of CCTV, cell phone, license plate collection.
Follow the person with CCTV. Their gait, their place of work. Patterns of sleep, food. Friends of friends of friends.
Voice print, internet use, the transport patterns. Banking, funding, permits, photo ID, education, tax.
Dont have CCTV from the gov, a public private partnership in that exact location? Ask the FBI for one of their utility pole camera networks. 24/7 and everyone gets matched up. Driver, passenger, delivery, shopping, walking, education, cell phone.
Ask the mil/feds for a fly over. That will collect on every sell phone and wireless network in the area.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
An odd lot, not my cup of tea, but I am scarcely in any position to judge. It is against-the-grain subcultures that help leaven the dough of a healthy society. And indeed the desire no to be surveilled is at the very heart of all liberty.
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