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Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition

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Re: Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition

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Post by cornholio »

Face recognition is a great example of a privacy-toxic technology thwarted by something like GDPR.

As soon as you cross the line from mass recording of anonymous images to recognizing individuals, even in a public space, you require consent.

The only problem is that the main users of face recognition, security agencies and government are not subject to GDPR - that needs to be restricted in a future version because today it wouldn't have been politically feasible.

Re: Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition

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Post by yathern »

The title of this article seems to imply that face painting was intentionally used among Juggalos to deter computerized facial recognition - of course we know that's not the case. Though to be fair, somewhere in the history of the practice, it may be argued that it was to throw off human face-recognition.

This reminds me of a sort of creative look into futuristic fashion I saw a bit ago:

https://cvdazzle.com

Where the fashion of the future is made to be expressive while preventing mass surveillance.

Re: Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition

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Post by joemi »

yathern wrote: post #5

The title of this article seems to imply that face painting was intentionally used among Juggalos to deter computerized facial recognition - of course we know that's not the case. Though to be fair, somewhere in the history of the practice, it may be argued that it was to throw off human face-recognition. This reminds me of a sort of creative look into futuristic fashion I saw a bit ago: https://cvdazzle.com Where th…

cvdazzle is explicitly mentioned in the article and is claimed to be less effective than Juggalo makeup.

Re: Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition

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Post by lucb1e »

cornholio wrote: post #3

Face recognition is a great example of a privacy-toxic technology thwarted by something like GDPR. As soon as you cross the line from mass recording of anonymous images to recognizing individuals, even in a public space, you require consent. The only problem is that the main users of face recognition, security agencies and government are not subject to GDPR - that needs to be restricted in a future version because to…

This website isn't even GDPR compliant and it's trying. Imagine the footage being recorded of us all silently, without cookie banner...

Re: Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition

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Post by sandworm101 »

yathern wrote: post #5

The title of this article seems to imply that face painting was intentionally used among Juggalos to deter computerized facial recognition - of course we know that's not the case. Though to be fair, somewhere in the history of the practice, it may be argued that it was to throw off human face-recognition. This reminds me of a sort of creative look into futuristic fashion I saw a bit ago: https://cvdazzle.com Where th…

>>> used among Juggalos to deter computerized facial recognition - of course we know that's not the case.

Yes and no. Such levels of makeup are meant to be a mask. They are meant to at least partially obscure a person's true features or emotions. Facial recognition is having a very difficult time with women's faces under heavy makeup. Styles with strait lines or geometric shapes (right angles) really throws them off. I'd expect that no facial recognition system could yet survive comicon.

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