In my understanding, no. The tech needs a specific amount of data points for biomarkers, which is why for one reason, it was illegal to amass in public with face coverings. Bio recognition still has its issues with FAR and FRR (false acceptance rate; false rejection rate, respectively), ultimately leading to equilibrium (equal error rate).
We're getting there, but the tech is still ethically questionable
In my understanding, no. The tech needs a specific amount of data points for biomarkers, which is why for one reason, it was illegal to amass in public with face coverings. Bio recognition still has its issues with FAR and FRR (false acceptance rate; false rejection rate, respectively), ultimately leading to equilibrium (equal error rate).
We're getting there, but the tech is still ethically questionable
I imagine people uploading their personal images to a public space like social media has played a big role in generating data points.
I imagine people uploading their personal images to a public space like social media has played a big role in generating data points.
Absolutely!
Absolutely!
Databases filled of decades of people putting pictures and videos of their faces online, as well as recordings of their voices and freely sharing all of their relations and personal information has trained systems beyond what most people can even imagine.
Also, several years of forced masking of entire populations worldwide to field-test live facial recognition systems to successfully identify people based on only areas of the face left visible while wearing a mask.
Assuming the systems openly being used on the people are not the advanced systems and are just the 'generic', civilian/public, allowed-to-know-it-exists versions that are limited to going by facial features/head characteristics alone (ears/throat/skull shape, etc.), I believe we are now (and have been for some time) in an era of needing a full-head covering that has multiple anti-identification features including a reflective 'face' with a mesh over the eyes (like halloween costume masks) and other features to alter or block the ability to analyze any exposed skin, head shape or ear shape (which ear shape or seeing the shape of specific parts of the ear is as good as a fingerprint).
Such a mask/helmet would lower your own visibility by having to look through a screen/mesh, and also dampen sounds heard through the mostly-solid coverings over the ears. It also gets quite warm within the mask/helmet.
If they aren't already installed in places without the public knowing about them, they could deploy the units that see right through solid materials, masks and clothes.
There are far too few who understand or even barely comprehend the full scale of the situation we are all in, including a lack of understanding or appreciation for the vast tools they have available to them to use against us that have been borne from many, many decades of unrestricted funding for secret technological advancement, of kidnapping intelligent minds and threatening them and/or their families unless they work on developing certain technologies or die trying, as well as the theft of creations/discoveries by civilian inventors who are either "recruited" by force, or disappeared for refusing. Most of the tech is very good at what it does and isn't even recognized by most/nearly all for what it actually is.
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