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   Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 05:30:10 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

   A new report brings to light two more people who have been wrongfully arrested and jailed thanks to police use of face recognition technology. The real-world harms are racking up and this has to stop. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/police-use-face-recognition-continues-wrack-real-world-harms

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     Alexandre Oliva (moving to @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br) (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 06:42:38 JST Alexandre Oliva (moving to @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)

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     looks like "face recognition technology" is as much of a misnomer as "artificially intelligence"
     
     but the problem is not that the "resemblance detection technology" gets it wrong, is it? the surveillance would be harmful even if it got it 100% right
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     Suburban Druid (suburban_druid@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 06:46:34 JST Suburban Druid

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     @eff Fuckerburg said it *himself* “Complex systems can make mistakes”… and “AI” is *arguably* a complex system in that regard.

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     Adam (adamsaidsomething@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 09:09:58 JST Adam

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     • Alexandre Oliva (moving to @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)

     @lxo @eff

     Putting confidence in a flawed system is one of the problems, and the surveillance would still be harmful even if 100% accurate, agreed. The article says "even in a world where the technology is 100% accurate, police still should not be trusted with it", giving the example of cops using the technology to identify protesters

     And cops don't stop there. They also use bullshit "gunshot detection" and "predictive policing" AI which are also flawed, biased/racist and generally problematic

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     Dennis H. (managechange@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 13:04:48 JST Dennis H.

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     @eff This is a vitally important issue, fraught with problems that are allowed to perpetuate without a data owner's bill of rights in this country. Without a sound foundation, Americans will continue to be exploited by profiteers and the politicians paid to leave this matter languish.