This is half a decade old news, but I only found this out myself after it accidentally came up in conversation at the DMV. The worker would not have informed me if it hadn’t come into conversation. Every DMV photo in the United States is being used for AI facial recognition, and nobody has talked about it for years. This is especially concerning given that citizens are recently being required to update their ID to a “Real ID,” which means more people than ever before are giving away the rights to their own face.
The biggest problem with privacy issues is that people talk about it for a while, but more often than not nothing ever happens to fix the problem, it simply gets forgotten. For example, in the next few years Copilot will simply become a part of people’s lives, and people will slowly stop talking about the privacy implications. What can we even do to fight the privacy practices of giants?
I’m blocked from the link and archive.org appears to be down at the moment.
Is this blocking police from touching the data regardless of where it came from, or would it still be okay for the police to request it from a fusion center? Fusion centers are one of the biggest workarounds on police regulations in the US.
http://archive.today/P0SSe
Thanks. It sounds like fusion centers will still be a viable workaround, but it’s not entirely clear from the article.