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Researchers have invented a new way to thwart facial recognition
- surround 6y ago13 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23917337 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23917337
- Zarath 6y agoMaybe just placebo here, but I can notice a difference between the left and right images. The right definitely seems blurrier or harder to focus on.
- kanobo 6y agoPSA: if you're in California/EU (or pretend to be) you can request ClearView (the hip facial recognition AI service that law enforcement uses) to exclude you from their databases (https://clearview.ai/privacy/requests https://clearview.ai/privacy/requests).
- Maha-pudma 6y agoYou have to upload an image of yourself to them to opt-out, hhmmm.
- User23 6y agoJust don't pretend so well that the California Franchise Tax Board is convinced too. It is interesting to me though that EU citizens have far greater rights on the Internet than American citizens do. For example it's almost impossible for American tech companies to deplatform a EU citizen unless they break local law. There's a vast array of laws and regulations from libel to privacy to others I don't even know the specifics on, all of which will be interpreted by courts that are evidently hostile to American companies. For example, calling an American a Nazi is never going to pass muster in a libel suit. Calling a German a Nazi is calling them a criminal, which is clearly libelous.
- kanobo 6y agoSerious question, was this comment written by a bot? I can see how each word is related to the thread but as a whole it reads like word salad.
- praptak 6y agoSocial platforms should use such algorithms by default.
- Maha-pudma 6y agoI wonder if this will be another arms race like adblocking now. The facial recognition companies find a work around to this and researchers find another work around, ad infinitum. Meanwhile I have the best solution to thwart all facial recognition, don't upload you photos in the first place.
- calciphus 6y agoThis also requires one to have no friends or family that upload photos of them, no corporate profile photos linked to talks given... It certainly is possible, but the bar is high and grows higher the more people in one's life.
- ToFab123 6y agoNow we just need this to be integrated and enabled by default in the camera app on our phones