mr.w0bb1t 🌐 @w0bb1t@mastodon.social

7 steps to control your #privacy.

👉🏻 Quit #Facebook

👉🏻 Install an ad/tracker blocker

👉🏻 Destroy your #smartphone

👉🏻 Paint your face before going outside

👉🏻 Write opt-out letters to each of the 4,000 data brokers

👉🏻 Avoid other humans (#Facebook gets your #data from them)

👉🏻 Move to a remote forest

This slide makes me angry. Face recognition on baby photos #USG

👉🏻 https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2016/12/05/11_wednesday_theime_evaluation_of_online_face_processing_2013.pdf #FaceRecognition

I think it's important to realize that #facialrecognition is kind of an entry-level term for more advanced ways of extracting information. #FacialAnalysis #Surveillance

"Only a fraction of people understand that social media is algorithmically organized.

That invisibility affords social media platforms an enourmous amount of power. That power is not neutral." #HeidiTworek #Privacy #Ethics

Instead of dramatizing these #technologies which can lead to calcification and normalization, the aim of this projects is to energize discourse around building creative solutions to counter, adapt to, or rethink emerging #surveillance technologies. #AntiSurveillance #AntiALPR

Garments from #AdversarialFashion feed junk data into #surveillance cameras, in an effort to make their #databases less effective. v/ #KateRoseBee

👉🏻 https://adversarialfashion.com/products/sublimation-cut-sew-dress-1?pr_prod_strat=copurchase&pr_rec_pid=3731431882845&pr_ref_pid=3731398557789&pr_seq=uniform #AntiALPR #AntiSurveillance

Two Methods for Confounding the #Tech:

- Block collection of information
- Overload with additional information

#Artists Use Both Methods

Automated license plate readers #ALPRs always on, always tracking everyone.

👉🏻 https://www.eff.org/pages/automated-license-plate-readers-alpr #LocationalPrivacy #Surveillance

#ALPR - How #Police Use Them 👉🏻 https://www.eff.org/document/anaheim-police-department-alpr-training @eff

According to #SurveillanceCapitalism by #ShoshanaZuboff, this is the famous patent that #Google uses for targeted advertisements & enforcing it in the IP market of patents: "Generating user information for use in targeted advertising"

👉🏻 https://www.sociality.today/?/patent/AU-2009222546-B2/I/Generating_User_Information_For_Use_In_Targeted_Advertising/ #UserTracking #FuckOffGoogle

#Warning: selfies contain more personal information than a #mugshot. #AI

You not only have the face but you have all of the #metadata and relational information around that. #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #Selfie

"According to the #insider, #MachineLearning Fairness is one of the many tools #Google uses to promote a political agenda." #AI #FuckOffGoogle

"#Google: #ArtificialIntelligence Is For A “fair & equitable” State"

Examples that show #MachineLearning Fairness in action. #FuckOffGoogle

An awesome short essay v/ #juspar. #Malware as Operational #Art: On the If/Then of #Geopolitics and Tricksters

👉🏻 https://malware.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en/malware-operational-art-ifthen-geopolitics-and-tricksters #NieuweInstituut

And #camouflage became a sign of humanities increasing intelligence.

#Privacy can be thought of the same way not as a defensive response, but privacy is something that shows humanities increasing intelligence. #AI #ML #DL

In the early 20th century it was a term for criminals hiding from the #police. T.Roosevelt considered #camouflage as a form of cowardice, a mere defense of strategy.

But as World War I and II unfolded, he realized the significance and power, the strategic advantage. #AI #ML #DL

There are functional solutions to hiding & blocking #surveillance. And there are more #artistic & psychological responses, more thought out kinds of #camouflage. But camouflage didn't exist the way it does before the 20th century. #AI #ML #DL

I think a face is one of the most powerful tools for communication yet there are very few, if any, acceptable ways to protect it from dubious or invasive kinds of surveillance. #AI #ML #DL #Surveillance

You can now use this facial expression #analysis, to read the thoughts of somebody, to know what they are thinking. Profile their emotions.

There is a thing called facial action units. Every facial movement can be read & analyzed. #AI #ML #DL #Surveillance

Whereas when you look at the report by Laura Poitras & James Risen from the #Snowden documents, #NSA is scanning 55,000 faces a day.

You see, the commercial #surveillance companies are nearly on the same field as government agencies. #AI #ML #DL

This company #Affectiva, which claims to have the world's largest emotion #database. With 40 billion emotion data points. Nearly 4 million faces analyzed (2016).

Compare that to the #NSA: This company is scanning about 5,500 faces per day. #AI #ML #DL