On 28 June, the Pride parade will take place in Budapest, Hungary. The Hungarian police is allowed to use face recognition systems even for minor offences, which include jaywalking or attending the Pride parade.[1] Anyone taking part in the Pride parade can now be identified from a distance and be punished using this technology.[2] This way, the LGBTQIA+ community in Hungary is being deliberately intimidated and criminalized. This is unacceptable!
This form of mass surveillance leads to a decline of our fundamental rights. Using intrusive surveillance technology may have a chilling effect on free speech and the right to protest freely.
Now is the time for the EU to show its teeth and enforce the AI Act, as this act prohibits face recognition in public spaces for surveillance purposes. The EU member states need to consider this a wake-up call and put an end to face recognition in public spaces.
Trying to parse this…
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Orban is going after LGBTQ people in Hungary. He even denies the freedom of assembly. But that’s apparently someone else’s problem.
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Orban is now using face recognition to police even small infractions, in contravention of the AI Act. Apparently, this is the real horror.
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Banning all face recognition in public spaces in the EU is somehow going to fix this.
Not sure if these people are stupid or if this is some kind of grift.
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Researchers Defeated Advanced Facial Recognition Tech Using Makeup
In their experiment, the researchers defined their 20 participants as blacklisted individuals so their identification would be flagged by the system. They then used a selfie app called YouCam Makeup to digitally apply makeup to the facial images according to the heatmap which targets the most identifiable regions of the face… A makeup artist then emulated the digital makeup onto the participants using natural-looking makeup in order to test the target model’s ability to identify them in a realistic situation.
“I was surprised by the results of this study,” Nitzan Guettan, a doctoral student and lead author of the study, told Motherboard. “[The makeup artist] didn’t do too much tricks, just see the makeup in the image and then she tried to copy it into the physical world. It’s not a perfect copy there. There are differences but it still worked.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/researchers-defeated-advanced-facial-recognition-tech-using-makeup/
This goes over how infrared light see through a lot of disguises.
How to Block Facial Recognition Cameras (IRL Tested!) - Business Reform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRFeS72IM6M
I’m not saying his method are the best way to stay anonymous, just that he demonstrates how hard it is to stay anonymous.
This is already a few years old and it’s been a cat and mouse game for years already. This was done in Hong Kong for a while and it turned out difficult for them because you can’t easily remove it, you are still recognizable as someone who went there. I believe the next step was using more subtle make-up to give their face a different look because facial recognition makes a pattern, changing where your cheekbones seem end and start or how point your chin looks breaks the system. But then the police started tweaking their system so they could better see faces with filters and infra-red camera’s so I believe now they use small devices that blur of block the camera’s view of the face. Might be that also doesn’t work anymore but haven’t heard much about Hong kong lately tbh.
This might work if your always in a big group and want to prevent being found later, because if you make it home unseen they might not be able to track you there. But still, although your real face isn’t recognizable by regular camera’s, you as an individual are still easily tracked since you stand out.
This seems to be just visible light. Infrared light facial recognition sees through all of the makeup and dark sunglasses.
Do we know that’s what they have?
Are you depending on Hungary’s modern and authoritarian-leaning surveillance state to be 10+ years behind? Consumer-grade Face Id on phones and computers uses infrared light.
