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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean assuming you live in a city you are being photographed up to thousands of times a day already.

And a lot of those video devices are using Google Corel TensorFlow.

There was a YouTube channel of a guy that goes around videotaping people in public because it's legal.

His point was this is already the default mode of society.

It would be funny if people normalized full face masks with printed designs in response to this future.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It would be funny if people normalized full face masks with printed designs in response to this future.

Tbh I hope they do.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I mean, masking during Covid while there were a lot of protesting events going on was a common crossover. Protect your identity and your health.

Unfortunately these spies do not need just faces for recognition. Gait is analyzed as well, among other things, so I'm not sure how effective it really is.

Side note: if government surveillance wants eyes on us, and masks prevent surveillance, would they have pushed masking for Covid? I don't really feel one way or the other on it, just a conspiracy curiosity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what Gait is but I am sure that if people start to ditch their phones and mask it will get a lot more difficult to Geofence ID crowds or whatever.

I'm sure that as pressure on people increases their tactics and strategies will evolve as needed.

This is a great opportunity to push for open hardware to develop all the capabilities of a cellphone without any of the tracking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Gait is walking stance/personality of walking. So if someone walks with a limp, favors one side, slumps a shoulder, etc. Everyone's is different, so it can be tracked.

This is very extreme surveillance avoidance, though anyone ditching their phone to go to a protest should also think about their gait and where they are coming to and going from. If you're at this point of fear, you'd want a change of clothes in a bag, and maybe even different shoes. In like, 98% of U.S. situations though this doesn't apply to us or our protests, it is just good to know. The night I'm talking about though and one other, it was honestly necessary.

Other than extreme circumstances though, these are tactics that only people who have legitimate reason to be paranoid. Such as Boeing whistleblowers, or journalists.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Side note: if government surveillance wants eyes on us, and masks prevent surveillance, would they have pushed masking for Covid? I don't really feel one way or the other on it, just a conspiracy curiosity.

I guess the governments aren't THAT evil to ban masks during Covid.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The “experimentation” of Algorithmic Video-Surveillance (AVS) within the framework set by the “Olympic Games” law passed last year by the French Parliament is not an experiment at all: it is nothing more than a hypocritical maneuver designed to legalize, through small steps, a police infrastructure already massively deployed in France. To counter this strategy, La Quadrature du Net is launching a campaign aimed at fueling popular opposition to AVS, a technology based on Artificial Intelligence that amounts to a constant, automated monitoring of public spaces and marks a historic turning point in state surveillance. A complaint has also been lodged with the French data protection authority, the CNIL, as a way of denouncing the hypocrisy of the AVS promoters and pointing out the negligence of the personal data protection authority.

La surveillance bâtit son empire

Les Jeux Olympiques vont nous laisser la surveillance de masse en héritage. En instrumentalisant cet évènement, le gouvernement a autorisé l’utilisation de la vidéosurveillance algorithmique (VSA) jusqu’en 2025 pour des situations qui dépassent largement le cadre cette compétition sportive. Ces logiciels, qui analysent les images de vidéosurveillance et envoient automatiquement des alertes à la police, sont déployés depuis des années en France en toute illégalité, sans que jamais les responsables n’aient été inquiétés. L’hypocrisie est donc totale. En légalisant quelques usages de VSA, l’État souhaite légitimer un état de fait et amorcer un projet de surveillance bien plus large de l’espace public.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Fuck this shit...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Dimanche, he explained that “potentially dangerous individuals" have been caught applying to work or volunteer at the Olympics, including 257 radical Islamists, 181 members of the far left, and 95 from the far right.

My BS sensor is pinging hard on this.

Then again, how can you question Mr. Sunday?