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lol - I made something to do the same to ICE. Stores each ICE agent as a visual embedding and creates a database of all sighted agents. https://www.realtimefas

by visekr 11mo ago

lol - I made something to do the same to ICE. Stores each ICE agent as a visual embedding and creates a database of all sighted agents. https://www.realtimefascism.com/ice-sight https://www.realtimefascism.com/ice-sight

yasp 11mo ago
What's your policy for complying with the patchwork of national biometrics laws?
- toomuchtodo 11mo ago
  Ignore them? Operate outside of US reach. The tubes are global. EDIT: Legally, you have no right to privacy in public, if your photo is captured in public (US centric), broadly speaking. You have the right to record law enforcement officers exercising their official duties in public. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/yes-you-have-right-film-ice https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/yes-you-have-right-fil... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/federal-judge-upholds-arizonans-right-record-police https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/federal-judge-upholds-... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/fourth-circuit-individuals-have-first-amendment-right-livestream-their-own-traffic https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/fourth-circuit-individ... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/victory-another-court-protects-right-record-police https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/victory-another-court-...
  - yasp 11mo ago
    Taking someone's photo is different than storing their biometrics. The latter would violate laws such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_Information_Privacy_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_Information_Privacy_...
    - toomuchtodo 11mo ago
      So avoid being subject to the US jurisdiction, if applicable. Do not store data or operate the system from within the US, or any country within US reach. https://owasp.org/www-community/Threat_Modeling_Process https://owasp.org/www-community/Threat_Modeling_Process
- visekr 11mo ago
  No biometrics collected. It's only scanning bodys, clothes and details on gear.
jimmywetnips 11mo ago
thanks awesome. thank you for making this. Can you go into any detail on what technologies you used? Is there enough differentiating data in their attire to actually match agents? None of them are showing their faces so I wonder how many false positives would occur
- visekr 11mo ago
  yes! although the techniques aren't perfect. I'm using a YOLO-WORLD-XL object detection model. Lets me detect objects using text. This is the initial filter that scans for agents - once those are detected and outlined with bounding boxes the entire image and each cropped bounding box are then sent to chatgpt to confirm if the image looks legit. Once image passes those checks - I create image embeddings of each agent using CLIP and those are stored in a vector DB, and each agent is then compared to the DB and matched. The matching system isn't perfect - but I think good enough to get the point across and can be easily tuned with more data! Happy to take suggestions here - I just spun this up over the weekend
_yb2s 11mo ago
Thank you for doing this! Great work.

by visekr 11mo ago

yasp 11mo ago

What's your policy for complying with the patchwork of national biometrics laws?

toomuchtodo 11mo ago
Ignore them? Operate outside of US reach. The tubes are global. EDIT: Legally, you have no right to privacy in public, if your photo is captured in public (US centric), broadly speaking. You have the right to record law enforcement officers exercising their official duties in public. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/yes-you-have-right-film-ice https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/yes-you-have-right-fil... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/federal-judge-upholds-arizonans-right-record-police https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/federal-judge-upholds-... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/fourth-circuit-individuals-have-first-amendment-right-livestream-their-own-traffic https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/fourth-circuit-individ... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/victory-another-court-protects-right-record-police https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/victory-another-court-...
- yasp 11mo ago
  Taking someone's photo is different than storing their biometrics. The latter would violate laws such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_Information_Privacy_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_Information_Privacy_...
  - toomuchtodo 11mo ago
    So avoid being subject to the US jurisdiction, if applicable. Do not store data or operate the system from within the US, or any country within US reach. https://owasp.org/www-community/Threat_Modeling_Process https://owasp.org/www-community/Threat_Modeling_Process
visekr 11mo ago
No biometrics collected. It's only scanning bodys, clothes and details on gear.

jimmywetnips 11mo ago

thanks awesome. thank you for making this. Can you go into any detail on what technologies you used? Is there enough differentiating data in their attire to actually match agents? None of them are showing their faces so I wonder how many false positives would occur

visekr 11mo ago
yes! although the techniques aren't perfect. I'm using a YOLO-WORLD-XL object detection model. Lets me detect objects using text. This is the initial filter that scans for agents - once those are detected and outlined with bounding boxes the entire image and each cropped bounding box are then sent to chatgpt to confirm if the image looks legit. Once image passes those checks - I create image embeddings of each agent using CLIP and those are stored in a vector DB, and each agent is then compared to the DB and matched. The matching system isn't perfect - but I think good enough to get the point across and can be easily tuned with more data! Happy to take suggestions here - I just spun this up over the weekend

_yb2s 11mo ago

Thank you for doing this! Great work.