Activists turn facial recognition tools against the police

Re:Activists turn facial recognition tools against the police by zepto on Thursday October 22, 2020 @03:39PM (#24862470)

Agreed, but there is a stark difference between privacy while working in public, and having their personal details circulated.

This is why generally police are identified by badges with numbers, and rather than their names and addresses.

Are you suggesting that the home address, name, and photograph of all police officers should be made publicly available everywhere?

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Re:Activists turn facial recognition tools against the police by fsflover on Thursday October 22, 2020 @03:43PM (#24862513)

At least for the case of Belarus discussed here I see no other possibility, because the oppressors hide their faces and do not present any identification.

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Re:Activists turn facial recognition tools against the police by zepto on Thursday October 22, 2020 @04:00PM (#24862688)

1. You didn’t answer my question - can you say whether you think this should apply to all police, everywhere or not?

2. How do people know who the Belarusian police are in order to doxx them?

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Re:Activists turn facial recognition tools against the police by fsflover on Thursday October 22, 2020 @05:45PM (#24863638)

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24861825

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgU2B6tasaA

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Re:Activists turn facial recognition tools against the police by zepto on Thursday October 22, 2020 @07:04PM (#24864254)

#1 is a link to another place where you don’t answer the same question.

#2 if you can identity the police using ML, then you can use those identities for any legitimate purpose that a badge number would be used for, such as collecting evidence against them, and clearly doxxing is not the only thing you can do.

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