The world seems to become more and more like Minority Report every day I read an article like this.
Hacking your face to dodge the rise of facial recognition tech
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#42"Hacking your face to dodge the rise of facial recognition"? I mean, it's not that it wouldn't work, in a way - but it strikes me as a rather gruesome approach!
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#43This is going to lead to a great episode of British political theatre. The burqa is an effective counter measure. Full body, with a mesh eye opening. The UK is either going to have to ban the burqa in public, at the price of being called an islamiphobic nation. Or continue to allow the burqa, and watch as it becomes the new cartoon criminal outfit, and acknowledge that The Government has established policies favorabl…
What about allowing burqas, but requiring a "license plate" to be affixed?
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For women it might be easier if the LEDs are built into a hair accessory like a hairband . Less of a social stigma than a baseball cap. Glasses work too of course. (Heh. I used Wikipedia to verify the spelling of 'hair band', but ended up on a page about Glam Metal.)
It might also be useful under the belt, e.g. on skirts or underwears, to thwart upskirting attempts.
Naomi Wu (@realsexycyborg) recently demo'd a "downskirt" cam for similar purposes. It basically shows the back of the legs and functions like a back-up camera on a vehicle.
https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/103896197816802918... (slightly nsfw)
Re: Hacking your face to dodge the rise of facial recognition tech
#45This is going to lead to a great episode of British political theatre. The burqa is an effective counter measure. Full body, with a mesh eye opening. The UK is either going to have to ban the burqa in public, at the price of being called an islamiphobic nation. Or continue to allow the burqa, and watch as it becomes the new cartoon criminal outfit, and acknowledge that The Government has established policies favorabl…
What about allowing burqas, but requiring a "license plate" to be affixed?
Plausible. Rfid or some other pingable ID marker.
You'll still get a fight about something physically visible though. Too much Jew with a gold star connotation.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about allowing burqas, but requiring a "license plate" to be affixed?
Plausible. Rfid or some other pingable ID marker. You'll still get a fight about something physically visible though. Too much Jew with a gold star connotation.
Now I've got a lot of off color jokes about IoT burqas in my head.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about allowing burqas, but requiring a "license plate" to be affixed?
Plausible. Rfid or some other pingable ID marker. You'll still get a fight about something physically visible though. Too much Jew with a gold star connotation.
Kind of an interesting connection there, hard to say that having a marking on your burqa somehow makes it more obvious you're a Muslim.
Would be weird to walk around with a licence plate style identifier though, since anyone could scan it and follow you rather than just someone with a massive facial recognition database.
honestly the thing I don't like about facial recognition is that it could somehow become mandatory in a country where you're not even required to carry any kind of national ID unless you're driving, and it's suddenly your problem if a facial recognition system you didn't consent to can't recognise you.
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#49need to get one of them hyperface scarves...
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#50It's sad we have to hide from our 'elected' western government.
I agree with you completely; I opt out of the scanners at the airport every time on that very principle alone. But, I would also assert that most people would not agree that " we have to hide ".
Tried that once. Got the German shepherd scanner instead.