Face recognition is almost here — and it’s built the zeitkapsl way:

Find and group photos by people
Fully end-to-end encrypted
Runs locally on your phone
No cloud processing, no leaks

Sorry it takes a bit longer we expected, but it's worth the wait.

Here’s a first look at what’s coming.

I thing Budapest Pride has the potential to show how bad the false positive rate of face recognition really is. If Orbàn dares to test it. Given how his ban was simply ignored, I doubt he dares because that would certainly jeopardise his power. But who knows. Maybe sucking up to Putin or his and his goons' own inner repressed self demands it.

Side note: unlike being queer, face recognition is banned in the EU (unless national security, lalala), so I can only hope the rather queer-unfriendly conservative folks for the most part in control of the EU commission do respect the rule of law and prosecute this breach of the ban in every single case.

#ArticleOffert #Facerecognition #Budapest #Pride

https://www.lemonde.fr/article-offert/b6b0f44d7fa6-6616349/a-la-marche-des-fiertes-de-budapest-une-foule-immense-defie-l-interdiction-de-viktor-orban-on-n-a-jamais-vu-autant-de-monde

https://github.com/kylemcdonald/lapd-face-search/

Lust Kameras mit Gesichtserkennung zu verwirren?

https://urban-privacy.com/de/products/faception-t-shirt-unisex-schwarz

Smart Home Security: AI-Driven Protection for Safer Living

https://rackenzik.com/smart-home-security-ai-driven-protection-for-safer-living/

Age Verification Using Facial Scans – Source: www.schneier.com https://ciso2ciso.com/age-verification-using-facial-scans-source-www-schneier-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #SchneierOnSecurity #SchneieronSecurity #CyberSecurityNews #facerecognition #Uncategorized #SocialMedia #biometrics

Age Verification Using Facial Scans

Discord is testing the feature:
“We’re currently running tests in select regions to age-gate access to certain sp... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/age-verification-using-facial-scans.html

As the USA is rivalling China in surveillance and repression technologies (including concentration camps, etc.) it's now advisable to get off US hosted social media, not to provide information that can be used for identification, etc.

Big Brother is at risk of developing an inferiority complex as the infrastructure for automated thought police is now getting abundant, cheap, and in the right hands.

#socialmedia #facerecognition #surveillance #repression #AI

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/09/clearview_founder_exceo_ousted

So basically face recognision is: compare current #embedding distance to database of embeddings and closest is considered a match?
#facerecognition #opencv

The EU’s #AIAct prohibitions are now in effect! But gaps remain. Learn more: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/ai-act-prohibitions-february-2025/

Now banned in the EU: #ManipulativeAI, AI that exploits people's vulnerabilities, #SocialScoring, #Scraping of facial images on the internet, Live #FaceRecognition in Public Spaces. Others are partially banned, like #PredictivePolicing, #EmotionRecognition, and more.

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Some more pictures of the #patterns to bypass #cctv #facerecognition.

Picture 1: data visualisation of CCTVs ratios in 5 European cities (cctv/surface, cctv/population, cctv/crime index). #knitting on the #kniterate machine

Picture 2: doodled stripes on #inkscape with hatches paste effect. #knitting on the #kniterate machine

Picture 3: #sewing a ready-made pattern from deadstock fabrics

Picture 4: Exhibition view. A visitor trying the garment with live CCTV face recognition (#opencv)

Model: Élodie Goldberg
#fabricademy project 2024

For more info see my previous post!

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A 3 months #research around #patterns to bypass #cctv #facerecognition.
Tested with #opencv.
Project done in the #fabricademy, a programme over textile and technology, at the @greenfabric node.

I knitted 2 kimonos on a #kniterate, a semi-industrial #machineknitting with deadstock yarns. The 3rd one is a deadstock fabric whose pattern was already a working #camouflage for opencv.

The project is fully documented here:
http://class.textile-academy.org/2024/stephanie-vilayphiou/project/

Concerning cctv surveillance, France has recently gone crazy over it... it seems like they want to recognise logos from organisations in protests and faces associated with them... does someone know an opencv algorithm to detect specific images? Or does it necessarily go through machine learning?