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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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[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gait tracking isn't new. But doing this goes against the spirit of the antifacialrecog laws. Unless lawmakers enforce that part of the interpretation, then they're allowing a very dangerous precedent (which, I'm assuming, they know and intend).

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And we all know law enforcement doesn't like to subvert the spirit of laws.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nor the actual letter of the law

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah they do that, but i dont think it gets them quite as hard.