Gee, I don’t see any possible way that this could go horribly wrong.Â
/s
hikeraz on
Can Apple be asked to remove this from the App Store since it endangers the lives of American Citizens, similar to how ICE had the ICEBlock app removed that simply reported the location of ICE agents?
ragingclaw on
All the more reason this shit needs better regulations. The laws around biometric use are patchwork at best.
TheBugDude on
The app is just a handful of caucasian skin color swatches. Just like the family guy skit.
mike2ff on
It would be a damn shame if someone sued them for improper use of biometrics.
In Illinois, we have very strict laws about biometric use. I’ve gotten checks from three different class actions when they weren’t following biometric use and data storage requirement.
JGeerth on
Sounds legt.
The US is DEFINITELY not descending into a fascist hellhole. Not at all.
VeeRook on
Would tricking ICE be an acceptable use for blackface?
jzun2158 on
SO an app developed by ICE for ICE to identify its targets.
Yeah that doesn’t sound suspect at all /s
Tazling on
What the actual Black Mirror fk?
YetiorNotHereICome on
In totally unrelated news, tanning salons have seen a noticeable drop in sales revenue. Financial experts are perplexed.
Stocky1978 on
So there is a Magic app that can tell from somebody’s face if they are a citizen or not??? Are you fucking shitting me??
Bulky-Internal8579 on
It’s just another pretext – facts don’t matter and they don’t give a shit about the law. Donate to the ACLU, organize protests and stay vigilant.
zonked282 on
Inb4 we discover What they have made is a camera that makes a ding sound so they can pretend they have evidence
Bulky-Internal8579 on
Oh it’s a skin color detector, white makes right!
FunctionBuilt on
Bring this up to any conservative that it will lead to US citizens being arrested and deported without due process and they’ll say you gotta crack a few eggs to make an omelet.
Pendarus on
This is bullshit. Facial recognition apps are famously inaccurate when dealing with minorities. They are designed and tested on primarily white faces. It’s widely documented that the false positive rate on people of color is very high.
Overrides birth certificates. That’s terrifying. It’s terrifying that any government official would even make such a claim, pure Fourth Reich here.
johnlooksscared on
Facial recognition technology systems ALL use a data base of images compiled by the user.
Images of a person are compared with the data base files looking for an image match.
This fact begs the questions
*where the fuck did ICE get a data base containing an image of every American or even just the brownish skinned ones?
*where the hell are they storing this massive file?
Impressive-Chair-959 on
Kinda crazy to trust Birth Certificate verification to the party of ‘Birtherism”
GenericPCUser on
Yeah, citizenship didn’t protect Jews in Germany either.
So easily the words can be redefined to mean whatever they need it to be to do what they want.
Purple_Foundation288 on
App loading screen: “Select Brown to Identify:
1 = Hispanic/Not Hispanic
2 = Muslim/Not Muslim
3 = Palestinian
4 = All
5 = Black (for quota)”
Baby-IM-Back on
Sooo what im hearing is we need nerdy IT tech people…. we need their expertise..cause I’d bet this app is prone to bugs that can make it non-functional
baronmunchausen2000 on
Imagine the feds and the police using this app to identify gun owners.
BitterFuture on
Huh.
That seems…wildly illegal.
Hawkwise83 on
The apps data base is based on what? That clearly existing database where all illegals dump their photos on?
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All we need to do is hack into it, and make ICE target ICE.
A eugenics app.
50 bucks says this app just identifies if people are Hispanic.
[Source](https://www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-agents-are-scanning-peoples-faces-on-the-street-to-verify-citizenship/) soft paywall
Gee, I don’t see any possible way that this could go horribly wrong.Â
/s
Can Apple be asked to remove this from the App Store since it endangers the lives of American Citizens, similar to how ICE had the ICEBlock app removed that simply reported the location of ICE agents?
All the more reason this shit needs better regulations. The laws around biometric use are patchwork at best.
The app is just a handful of caucasian skin color swatches. Just like the family guy skit.
It would be a damn shame if someone sued them for improper use of biometrics.
In Illinois, we have very strict laws about biometric use. I’ve gotten checks from three different class actions when they weren’t following biometric use and data storage requirement.
Sounds legt.
The US is DEFINITELY not descending into a fascist hellhole. Not at all.
Would tricking ICE be an acceptable use for blackface?
SO an app developed by ICE for ICE to identify its targets.
Yeah that doesn’t sound suspect at all /s
What the actual Black Mirror fk?
In totally unrelated news, tanning salons have seen a noticeable drop in sales revenue. Financial experts are perplexed.
So there is a Magic app that can tell from somebody’s face if they are a citizen or not??? Are you fucking shitting me??
It’s just another pretext – facts don’t matter and they don’t give a shit about the law. Donate to the ACLU, organize protests and stay vigilant.
Inb4 we discover What they have made is a camera that makes a ding sound so they can pretend they have evidence
Oh it’s a skin color detector, white makes right!
Bring this up to any conservative that it will lead to US citizens being arrested and deported without due process and they’ll say you gotta crack a few eggs to make an omelet.
This is bullshit. Facial recognition apps are famously inaccurate when dealing with minorities. They are designed and tested on primarily white faces. It’s widely documented that the false positive rate on people of color is very high.
The app:
https://preview.redd.it/vjob95zyl3yf1.png?width=534&format=png&auto=webp&s=2b467a63aaeb72a726e89538d196323f043d5fb7
Overrides birth certificates. That’s terrifying. It’s terrifying that any government official would even make such a claim, pure Fourth Reich here.
Facial recognition technology systems ALL use a data base of images compiled by the user.
Images of a person are compared with the data base files looking for an image match.
This fact begs the questions
*where the fuck did ICE get a data base containing an image of every American or even just the brownish skinned ones?
*where the hell are they storing this massive file?
Kinda crazy to trust Birth Certificate verification to the party of ‘Birtherism”
Yeah, citizenship didn’t protect Jews in Germany either.
So easily the words can be redefined to mean whatever they need it to be to do what they want.
App loading screen: “Select Brown to Identify:
1 = Hispanic/Not Hispanic
2 = Muslim/Not Muslim
3 = Palestinian
4 = All
5 = Black (for quota)”
Sooo what im hearing is we need nerdy IT tech people…. we need their expertise..cause I’d bet this app is prone to bugs that can make it non-functional
Imagine the feds and the police using this app to identify gun owners.
Huh.
That seems…wildly illegal.
The apps data base is based on what? That clearly existing database where all illegals dump their photos on?