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@nysee@privacysafe.social · 3h ago

Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/disneyland-entrance-facial-recognition

#disney #facialrecognition #surveillance

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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 21h ago
The Guardian | Guilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names by Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Retail stores in the UK are increasingly using live facial‑recognition software called Facewatch to curb shoplifting, but several shoppers – including Ian Clayton, Warren Rajah and Jennie Sanders – have been falsely identified, forced to leave stores, and offered small vouchers as “good‑will” gestures while receiving little assistance in proving their innocence. The company claims a 99.98 % accuracy rate and says human error, not technology failure, caused the incidents, yet critics note higher mis‑identification rates for Black, Asian and female customers, and point out that national oversight lags behind the rapid rollout. Affected individuals struggled to contact the data‑protection team, had to lodge subject‑access requests or send passports to clear their names, and found the Information Commissioner’s Office’s complaints process opaque and slow. Retailers and Facewatch acknowledge the mistakes as “extremely rare” but stress that the system is intended to support, not replace, human decision‑making, while regulators emphasise the need for strict data‑protection compliance and clearer avenues for redress. Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/03/guilty-until-proven-innocent-shoppers-falsely-identified-by-facial-recognition-struggle-to-clear-their-name #IanClayton #facialrecognition #race #retailindustry #technology #WarrenRajah #JennieSanders
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@ppcland@mastodon.social · 3d ago
ICYMI: noyb sues Hamburg DPA as PimEyes keeps scanning faces unhindered: Privacy group noyb today sued Hamburg's data watchdog for refusing to act against PimEyes, a facial recognition engine holding billions of biometric records. https://ppc.land/noyb-sues-hamburg-dpa-as-pimeyes-keeps-scanning-faces-unhindered/ #Privacy #FacialRecognition #DataProtection #BiometricData #Surveillance
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Apr 27, 2026
To opt out, just don't have a face #London #FacialRecognition
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@autonomysolidarity@todon.eu · Mar 27, 2024
How goverments are using facial recognition to crack down on protesters Mass protests used to offer a degree of safety in numbers. #FacialRecognition #technology changes the equation. "But while authorities generally pitch facial recognition as a tool to capture terrorists or wanted murderers, the technology has also emerged as a critical instrument in a very particular context: punishing protesters. (...) In countries where demonstrating can come with physical or political risk, large-scale protests have historically offered a degree of anonymity, and, with it, a level of protection. Mass protests are a way for citizens to express dissent as a collective — often under the assumption that “they can’t arrest us all.” But in the last decade, the spread of facial recognition technology has changed that equation: A lone face in a crowd is no longer anonymous; facial recognition allows #authorities to capture people’s identities en masse." https://restofworld.org/2024/facial-recognition-government-protest-surveillance/ #surveillance #Protest #Repression
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@Renatomancer@vmst.io · Apr 01, 2026
#FacialRecognition #ClearviewAI https://mashable.com/article/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-jail-grandma
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@inquiline@assemblag.es · Mar 14, 2026
deeply disturbing... and according to the local story linked here, she lost her home, car, and dog while locked up https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud #AI #surveillance #FacialRecognition
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@Wen__dup_20019@mastodon.scot · Feb 25, 2026
Amusing, when a mistake is made the Polis double down…. I hope he gets significant damages. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/25/facial-recognition-error-prompts-police-to-arrest-asian-man-for-burglary-100-miles-away #FacialRecognition #Bias #ThamesValley #AI
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@RonaldTooTall@universeodon.com · Feb 23, 2026
The current Republican administration is on the road to becoming Orwell's "Big Brother". https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-wants-a-single-search-engine-to-flag-faces-and-fingerprints-across-agencies/ #Privacy #DHS #Immigration #Surveillance #FacialRecognition #BigBrother #TrumpAdministration
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@provadivita@mstdn.business · Feb 22, 2026
👁️ Smart glasses with native facial recognition. Residential surveillance networks. License plate tracking. As biometric wearables and AI-powered surveillance tools proliferate, the conversation around consent, oversight, and civil liberties has never been more urgent. Where do we draw the line? 🔗 https://provadivita.com/biometric-injection-attacks/ #BiometricPrivacy #FacialRecognition #SurveillanceTech #DataPrivacy #AIEthics #DigitalRights #BiometricSecurity #EPIC
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@itgrrl@infosec.exchange · Feb 22, 2026
the arseholes over at #Meta / #Facebook aren’t clueless & naive techies, they’re actively pursuing harmful & unpopular tech in pursuit of money & power like cartoon villains… 🧐 Meta Plans to Add #FacialRecognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses “Five years ago, Facebook shut down the facial recognition system for tagging people in photos on its social network, saying it wanted to find “the right balance” for a technology that raises #privacy and legal concerns. Now it wants to bring facial recognition back. … Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release. “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many #CivilSociety groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses.html #biometrics #USpol
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@Em0nM4stodon__dup_1827@infosec.exchange · Feb 09, 2026
Each time a new privacy-invasive feature like facial scanning is implemented, if people in majority comply and accept to use it, it will soon become normality, and other options will be marginalized or even removed entirely. If each time a new privacy-invasive feature is implemented people opted to refuse it, it would soon be discontinued. Each individual opposition to privacy-invasive features matters. It is an act of self-protection but, perhaps even more importantly, it is also an act of protest. A protest against the normalization of mass surveillance and the loss of privacy rights. The fact that there are other cameras around doesn't mean that more cameras or additional scanning is not making things even worse. If we do not refuse, if we do not fight for our privacy rights, we will lose them all. #Privacy #MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #FacialRecognition #HumanRights #DigitalRights
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