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I've been trying to beat this drum for a long time, sometimes on this very forum. Face and gait recognition really is the scariest thing going on these days. I
by veidr 12y ago
I've been trying to beat this drum for a long time, sometimes on this very forum.
Face and gait recognition really is the scariest thing going on these days. I don't like the NSA snorting all the phone calls and the emails, either, but there are reasonable countermeasures.
To avoid this shit, you can't go anywhere, ever, unless you're in disguise and you breakdance/shuffle down the street.
It's a short jump from license plate recognition to face/gait recognition. Sure, the software isn't as good yet as it is with license plates (near perfect), but everybody on this website knows it will get there. And 'they' will be able to do all the same things they can do with license plates.
Not only track where you are and whether you go to this place or that place; they can decide ten years from now to find out where you went over the past decade.
And, they don't need a black budget and the complicity of major corporations to do it. In this case, they can be the Sausalito police, Starbucks, or your local shopping mall.
- uesername 12y ago> To avoid this shit, you can't go anywhere, ever, unless you're in disguise and you breakdance/shuffle down the street. Make no mistake: in a world with that breed of surveillance, not going anywhere or breakdancing down the street in disguise will be guaranteed to flag you as "interesting" and a good candidate for "special" investigation. And that's a feature.