Revealed: The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI.
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Many facial recognition engines still track eyes using IR illumination. In fact, it's more effective, generally speaking, than a mask that covers the bottom half of your face.
Protect your eyes and you'll stop most of the automated tracking... for now. It'll paint a giant target on your back since most work by reflecting IR, so you'll light up like a Christmas tree, but at least they probably won't be able to automatically match you to a face in their database.
That's part of the reason. But it now gives me more ideas. Way more.
Jam the IR. IR emitters can be pretty damn easy to hide. Have them embedded in badges for people. Have IR reflecting signs. Flood the protest with IR so even people unaware of it are protected.
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This is the direct path from neoliberalism/conservatism to fascism that some of us have been warning about for decades.
Simply put, choosing the "lesser of two evils" over decades means you're sliding towards evil, regardless.
Right. You can't pick the lesser evil in the election today, then go do nothing, and expect good outcomes.
Harm reduction has a place but it's not the whole solution
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Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
shocking
What is it actually fair and restrained or something? That's about the only thing that would actually be shocking at this point. I wouldn't be surprised to find out they were actually electrocuting people.
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That's part of the reason. But it now gives me more ideas. Way more.
Jam the IR. IR emitters can be pretty damn easy to hide. Have them embedded in badges for people. Have IR reflecting signs. Flood the protest with IR so even people unaware of it are protected.
Yeah, that would be pretty cool. I've seen protest shirts for visible light cameras with things that look like license plates and whatnot, and I'd totally be down for a peaceful protest to mess w/ IR illumination as well.
If you want the glasses, check out reflectacles. They reflect IR, which makes you unidentifiable to many camera systems. I have no association w/ the company, just think it's a cool idea.
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From a European perspective, USA only had a right and far right party. Anything on the left side was killed long time ago.
McCarthyism, Southern Strategy, three letter agencies spending decades actively targeting/murdering activists; yeah it’s been rough.
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Right. You can't pick the lesser evil in the election today, then go do nothing, and expect good outcomes.
Harm reduction has a place but it's not the whole solution
Sadly, for many, participation ends at the ballot box. I'm sorry to say that I was that way before, too.
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Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
There's nothing you can tell me about surveillance tech that would "shock" me at this point.
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Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
In general, the federal government is hungry for facial recognition. The Department of Homeland Security is experimenting with using facial biometrics to monitor migrant children “down to the infant” and algorithmically predict how they will age so they can be identified if they cross the border years later.
Seems a bit unnecessary.
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This way one should not have voted for a convicted felony…
It just gives the signal that laws are only for non-white and non-male people and that white men can do whatever they want.
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This way one should not have voted for a convicted felony…
It just gives the signal that laws are only for non-white and non-male people and that white men can do whatever they want.
And then, the group that is not undesirable starts shrinking, trait by trait. We know this poem.
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From a European perspective, USA only had a right and far right party. Anything on the left side was killed long time ago.
and conservatives are still taught there is a left. were a center right at best, far-far-right at worst. even in west coast area, people that are transplants to the west coast are often more conservative than the people living here, so they bring it to the west and make it more conservative. nimbyism part of it, rich white people often are on the right,
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By the end of Trump’s first presidential term, Clearview had secured funding from right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, one of Elon Musk’s earliest business partners, and signed up hundreds of law enforcement clients around the country. The company doled out free trials to hook users, urging cops to “run wild” with searches. They did. Many departments then bought licenses to access Clearview’s faceprint database.
The loud are the distraction.
Thiel
Of course its thiel, he has obssesion with Palintir, his other creation and anduril. Also you may know he has a compound in NZ knowing that shit will hit the fan and people come for his head eventually.
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Hmmm.
Facial recognition technology is known to be unreliable, and incorrectly match faces. But that's only a problem if it can detect a face. So your medical facemask is a problem.
But the real problem is the eyes and nose. Ears are easy enough to cover.
New style of sunglasses. Ear to ear 3.5" reflective darkened UV protection polycarbonate. That's a big ass chunk of face it can't detect anymore.
they started using this with red light companies.
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Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
Wait, you say the techno-faschist surveillance system is run by… techno-faschists?
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Yeah, of course it is...
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