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1. Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 06:35:14 UTC Electronic Frontier Foundation

   Police used DNA and probability software to invent a likely face for a subject and then put that fake face through face recognition software. This is policing done by pure chance and it's beyond dangerous. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/cops-running-dna-manufactured-faces-through-face-recognition-tornado-bad-ideas #facerecognition

   • nicholas_saunders (nicholas_saunders@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 06:43:20 UTC nicholas_saunders

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     @eff no.

     This is anthropology.

     But, yes, it's creepy.

   • SomebodyTrickedU (somebodytrickedu@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 07:44:31 UTC SomebodyTrickedU

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff not surprising but then again nothing nowadays surprises me lol!

   • tsohahost (tsohahost@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 12:24:37 UTC tsohahost

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff another example of the harm done by the (miss)use of ai

   • Jimmy Havok (jhavok@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 14:05:23 UTC Jimmy Havok

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     @eff Just heard a bit on a true-crime podcast about catching a perpetrator with a bite match. Horrible that this long-discredited method still is being used.

   • RalfMaximus (ralfmaximus@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 16:25:37 UTC RalfMaximus

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     @eff

     It's like Minority Report but somehow worse.

   • Jeramee (jeramee@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 03:48:25 UTC Jeramee

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     @eff
     How is any of this admissible in court?

     Where are the peer reviewed studies showing this is reliable? Where are the published accuracy rates?

     There's no excuse for the police being ignorant of these evidentiary standards.