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How a new type of AI is helping police skirt facial recognition bans | MIT Technology Review (www.technologyreview.com)

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Police and federal agencies have found a controversial new way to skirt the growing patchwork of laws that curb how they use facial recognition: an AI model that can track people using attributes like body size, gender, hair color and style, clothing, and accessories.

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You can decide for yourself:

https://theamericanscholar.org/ku-klux-khaki/

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago

Yikes, mine are not cargos but... I'll leave my khakis on this side of the Atlantic.