what: You can't get good biometrics on eyes from shitty security cameras or body cams haphazardly pointed at the street. You can do it for access control systems because you have a good high quality baseline, and fixed high quality checkpoint cameras. Also sunglasses.

This is why mask bans are suddenly being proposed. If you’re in a place where that’s happening and you think we should prioritize public and personal health and freedom over expanding the powers of the police state then please do let your representatives know why the freedom to mask matters to you

Cops don’t like them; makes it harder to use surveillance footage and facial recognition to arrest people (especially at protests).

I keep seeing techies who work in this industry say it’s not even necessary- the AI they use and biometrics on eyes already does a lot of this work. I remember hazmat masks banned in Seattle in 90s because cops wanted to use tear gas and it wasn’t hurting people masked enough, for example ...

You can't get good biometrics on eyes from shitty security cameras or body cams haphazardly pointed at the street. You can do it for access control systems because you have a good high quality baseline, and fixed high quality checkpoint cameras. Also sunglasses.

As someone who works in tech and AI bullshit: never trust any tech person who tells you "oh yeah our thing can be easily adapted to this slightly different problem". They're 100% lying, or huffing their own farts, ESPECIALLY if the slightly different problem has poorer information quality.

Interesting. Why not ban sunglasses then? I do appreciate knowing this - it’s something I see repeated here and there in feeds and resources and it’s difficult for the layperson to wade through the bullshit.

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