Buongiorno, "J.C. DE MARTIN" <juancarlos.demartin@polito.it> writes:

*Why facial recognition technology makes these campus protests different from those in the past * /At campus protests across the country, many are covering their faces as fears of police surveillance, facial recognition technology, and doxing rise./

Chris Morris

https://www.fastcompany.com/91116791/facial-recognition-technology-campus-pr...

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- What made those images even more notable, though, are the lengths to which many of the protesters are going to in order to hide their identities. Keffiyehs and facemasks are commonplace. Some cover themselves with blankets. It’s a vastly different sort of protest than the Black Lives Matter marches of 2020—or anything Americans have seen lately. And artificial intelligence—along with facial recognition technology—might be to blame. [...] That could result in everything from lifelong repercussions for what could be peaceful protesting to threats to the safety of students who are identified (correctly or incorrectly) as protestors. And given questions of the accuracy (especially for people of color) of some facial recognition software, it could also result in legal threats to universities. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- oh santo cielo cosa mi tocca leggere, come se tutto questo fosse cominciato nel 2020 con Black Lives Matter: sono letteralmente basito che il giornalista non faccia _minimamente_ cenno a quello che è successo prima... suvvia! e poi non ho capito bene quale sarebbe il problema: il rapporto segnale/rumote di queste _probes_, tipo che un cittadino di colore è più a rischio perché l'AI sbaglia più di frequente a identificarlo? Mah. il riconoscomento facciale, utilizzabile per identificare automaticamente solo se i manifestanti sono già /identificabili/, cioè _schedati_; è solo un nuovo /signal/ aggiunto a quelli già disponibili da molti decenni [1] ad un sistema ben oliato di sorveglianza globale, nel quale c'è la forma mentis secondo la quale siamo tutti /potenziali/ sovversivi. per _circoscrivere_ l'analisi solo ai /signal/ da videosorveglianza, consiglio la lettura di questo paragrafo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_United_States#Surveil... --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Wide Area Persistent Surveillance (also Wide Area Motion Imaging) is a form of airborne surveillance system that collects pattern-of-life data by recording motion images of an area larger than a city – in sub-meter resolution. This video allows for anyone within the field of regard to be tracked – both live and retroactively, for forensic analysis. The use of sophisticated tracking algorithms applied to the WAMI dataset also enables mass automated geo-location tracking of every vehicle and pedestrian. [...] video so detailed that pedestrians can be followed across the city through forensic analysis. This allows investigators to rewind and playback the movements of anyone within this 68 square mile area for hours, days or even months at a time depending on the airframe the WAMI sensors are mounted on. [...] the deployments have been intentionally hidden from the public [...] Traffic cameras, [...] also work as transit choke-points that allow individuals inside the vehicle to be positively identified and license plate data to be collected and time stamped for cross reference with airborne WAMI --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Poi, per un quadro più generale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_United_States «Mass surveillance in the United States» --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- The formation and growth of federal law-enforcement and intelligence agencies such as the FBI, CIA, and NSA institutionalized surveillance used to also silence political dissent, as evidenced by COINTELPRO projects which targeted various organizations and individuals. During the Civil Rights Movement era, many individuals put under surveillance orders were first labelled as integrationists, then deemed subversive --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee «Church Committee» (mi limito a riportare brani sulla sorveglianza, omettendo altre operazioni clandestine) --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- a US Senate select committee in 1975 that investigated abuses by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Chaired by Idaho Senator Frank Church (D-ID), the committee was part of a series of investigations into intelligence abuses in 1975 [...] [...] By the early years of the 1970s, a series of troubling revelations had appeared in the press concerning intelligence activities. First came the revelations by Army intelligence officer Christopher Pyle in January 1970 of the US Army's spying on the civilian population[8][9] and Senator Sam Ervin's Senate investigations produced more revelations.[10] Then on December 22, 1974, The New York Times published a lengthy article by Seymour Hersh [...] In addition, the article discussed efforts by intelligence agencies to collect information on the political activities of US citizens.[11] --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- «intelligence abuses» li chiamano: divertentissimo :-D Saluti, 380° [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_United_States#Modalit... P.S.: certo Wikipedia è una fonte parziale, ma diciamo che ho il ragiovevole sospetto che quello che c'è scritto su queste cose sia ormai ragionevolmente /decantato/ da poter essere credibile, no? -- 380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego) «Noi, incompetenti come siamo, non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché» Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.