Feds Track Down Capitol Rioter With Facial Recognition Hit On His Girlfriend’s Instagram

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/facial-recognition-capitol-defendants_n_607f34c0e4b0df3610c17614 What are the implications of facial recognition starting to become widespread? What kind of world will you have where in a decade from now there will be facial recognition freely available to everyone, which will especially be used by the police, employers, private and state intelligence, military, lawyers and cartels/mafias, and images from all social media are scraped into databases freely available to everyone since harddrives and SSDs are getting cheaper and better image compression formats are being made like AVIF and WebP to replace JPG?

https://www.cnet.com/news/face-masks-are-thwarting-even-the-best-facial-recognition-algorithms-study-finds/ >In a report published Monday, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology found that face masks were thwarting even the most advanced facial recognition algorithms. Error rates varied from 5% to 50%, depending on an algorithm's capabilities. >Those results are troubling for the facial recognition industry, which has been scrambling to develop algorithms that can identify people through their eyes and nose alone as people turn to face masks amid the coronavirus pandemic. >Facial recognition researchers have been compiling photos of people wearing face masks as data for its algorithms to learn from -- in some cases, without people's knowledge.

most people will have their phone with them which is registered to their real name. No need to tryhard

>>45036 Just another reason to be careful about social media. Not only feds but anyone with a facial recognition scanner can potentially track you down.

This has been a tactic for a number of years already- end up in a selfie in a crowded area? You're tracked. People have volunteered themselves to become the surveillance apparatus of the State, no coercion needed. Also, please check out this guide on Online Anonymity, written by Anon!

This is why I actively avoid having pictures taken of me.

>>45050 Depends on your threat model, really. If you're currently attempting to act with true anonymity in the face of a global adversary with unlimited resources, under a zero-security model, it is then a pretty good idea to evade such a thing. But under normal circumstances, it doesn't hurt excessively to allow it- you don't use corpo social media anyway.

>>45049 thanks for that guide lain !

>>45049 >click my pdf link abouy anonymity, written by anon! XDD no thx

>>45061 Can pdf links be infected? I thought only in combination with a compromised pdf reader?

>>45064 There's only about 4 major FOSS PDF libs in use. And one proprietary one. There seems to be no reason this couldn't be distributed as an org or md document instead, going by the thumbnail.

>>45064 some pdfs source images online (like cloud/web document) and links could contain stuff like logging the IP if you clicked them or loaded a web image. average baph anon would know of this and if you're using windows Nt then the effect could be better.

>>45061 thgtoa7imksbg7rit4grgijl2ef6kc7b56bp56pmtta4g354lydlzkqd.onion/guide.html Here's an onion for you, if you're scared of PDFs.

>>45036 And that "Algorithm" would be? Let me guess a massive If and Else machine about chin sizes.

>>45049 >People have volunteered themselves to become the surveillance apparatus of the State, no coercion needed. People taking picture of themselves exist since the 50s.

>>45080 big difference between taking a picture to put in a family album and taking a picture to put it onto the internet

>>45108 And why should I not share my moments with others?

>>45109 because it gets used by glowniggers to train their facial recognition models there is a difference between sharing it with people you know (as would be the case in the 50s, where you'd whip out the family album to show to your friends or family) and posting it publicly on the internet on some company's server where they store it forever is playing devil's advocate fun?

>>45049 Thanks for the guide, but I have to wonder why a manual for online privacy is promoting the use of discord and twitter and there's no IRC channel.

>>45115 irc has no message logging. Goal is likely to check 2months later if anyone wrote anything. Cant do that with irc. Gotta be present.