US Customs and Border Protection is asking tech companies to pitch real-time facial recognition technology that can capture everyone in a vehicle—not just those in the front seats.
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I hope @wired will print more political stories like this in the print version. I paid for online and print subscriptions and I was very disappointed in my first print copy. It was all technical and no politics. Why would you do that? I won’t renew unless that changes
This system will be integrated with all the government data that Musk took and fed into his AI, Collosus. They are creating a bot that knows everything about everyone.
CBP wants tech firms to help them scan every face in every car at the border in real time. Because nothing says ‘land of the free’ like turbocharged surveillance at 5 MPH.
“Studies show that facial recognition is least reliable for people of color, women, and nonbinary individuals. And that can be life-threatening when the technology is in the hands of law enforcement.”
I have a counterproposal. Using all the uploaded clips of CBP/ICE activity, we build a little voiceprint database which, paired with mobile apps with a passive listening feature will immediately alert people to the presence of potential personnel from those agencies anywhere and everywhere they go.
For that matter, mass data aggregation of their faces, even if covered, will certainly be useful to identify them in the future as the technology evolves. Slow, systematic exclusion from every corner of life when they are off the clock. Refuse to sell food for them, to render services to them, to
even make conversation with them. Shun them. Do not date or mate them. The administration and their backers want eugenics? Let's make that happen by erasing the traits of people who naturally gravitate towards these kinds of positions from the gene pool. A final solution to the police state problem.
That includes facial recognition of US citizens, like many of us here, including our children. Not trusting ICE and this administration with this data. Looks like there will be a drop in border crossings from US to Mexico and Canada.
Good point. In my state, the Real ID scan is my drivers license photo. But border agents will scan everyone passing through the border. We’re approaching the point that the government will know and track every person, all the time. Like China.
I don’t care who’s using a given bathroom. I do care who’s recording and cataloging people in my car, or any car I may be in. The legitimate “why” is very lacking on both.
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Welcome to LibertyLand™ — where the only ride is suspicion.
And if you flinch? That's probable cause.
Fill the pockets of tech companies for more security cans….feel safe behind your walls.
I’m vacationing in Europe…way nicer, real food…beautiful people.
Good luck fortress USA…you won’t be missed.
https://www.aclu-mn.org/en/news/biased-technology-automated-discrimination-facial-recognition
I've crossed the border many times and for the most part CBP is either absent or checked out from what I can tell.
Why are we paying their salaries?
Horrendous.
I can't believe this shit😣
ALL THIS could have been avoided. 😞