Tech has NEVER been neutral, nor apolitical

Also, most tech companies are led by mediocre white dudes with absolutely no understanding, nor desire to, of how their "great idea" could cause harm because that harm, rarely visits their doorstep

We most prioritize harm reduction https://t.co/80d5brn1Rb

— Kim Crayton [She/Her] ? ??#causeascene (@KimCrayton1) August 20, 2020

It's bad enough they're using cameras or Instagram to match protesters facial IDs then accost them at home -- but, to what facial ID record, with his home address attached, did they match it up with, and who is funding such a dox database and is that legal?@WarriorsITG https://t.co/ooki83yBQd

— Frank ? 11/4 ? ✍️ ? (@model_daughters) August 15, 2020

thinking of all the times lobbyists for tech companies that make facial recognition said we were "exaggerating" when we said that this exact thing would happen https://t.co/OkhcHJ2XQM

— Evan Greer (@evan_greer) August 20, 2020

In other words, if you’re at a protest and happen to be next to a man accused of screaming into an officer’s ear, your face image, caught on CCTV, could also be searched against the NYPD’s database of known faces?? https://t.co/qhe5MadelI

— George Joseph (@georgejoseph94) August 17, 2020

I wrote a short story in 2014 about the use of facial recognition tech obtained via a drone as the primary piece of evidence for arresting someone on terrorism technology. It was probably a bit scifi at the time, but of course now is to be expected. https://t.co/spYFlqZ5Zi

— Nelson "Magical Authority" Rosario (@NelsonMRosario) August 20, 2020

NEW: Following our story on the NYPD's use of facial recognition on a Black Lives Matter protester, @NYCMayor promises to "reassess" NYPD rules. Currently, police can run facial recognition on anyone who may be a witness to a crime of any level:https://t.co/Boq7F2qCL3

— George Joseph (@georgejoseph94) August 17, 2020

"We're looking into it" doesn't instill a lot of confidence when protesters are being actively targeted by police facial recognition. #BanFacialRecognitionhttps://t.co/wuoj9Thd85

— Fight for the Future (@fightfortheftr) August 18, 2020

This comes after the NYPD used FR to find and arrest a BLM activist.

NYPD says it's being cautious with its use of FR, but as we reported before, the department's own officers were using Clearview and ran 11,000 searches without higher up approval: https://t.co/nxFgzBQqpY

— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) August 18, 2020

Check out our interview with Gothamist:
“We would never have seen this level of police response for using a bullhorn if the message hadn’t been one opposed to the NYPD.”https://t.co/KUARPVhuWA

— S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (@STOPSpyingNY) August 18, 2020

The NYPD now appears to be deploying its vast, unaccounted for facial recognition unit on prominent activists. https://t.co/AabBkA8XIh

— Jake Offenhartz (@jangelooff) August 14, 2020

This comes after the NYPD used FR to find and arrest a BLM activist.

NYPD says it's being cautious with its use of FR, but as we reported before, the department's own officers were using Clearview and ran 11,000 searches without higher up approval: https://t.co/nxFgzBQqpY

— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) August 18, 2020

The NYPD is using facial recognition to target protesters.

This technology is notoriously inaccurate at identifying women + people of color. Given the NYPD’s troubling history of unlawful surveillance, their use of facial recognition tech must end now. https://t.co/UnES9D7A0L

— NYCLU (@NYCLU) August 15, 2020

a good occasion to say absolutely fuck you to every photographer who has traded the safety of black protestors for money https://t.co/ytrcbqE3XA

— yasmina (@jasminprix) August 15, 2020

The NYPD deployed facial recognition technology in its hunt for a prominent Black Lives Matter activist, whose home was besieged by dozens of officers and police dogs last week https://t.co/BcDVxI2enf

— Kate Hinds (@katehinds) August 15, 2020

I usually write about the dangers of companies like Clearview AI ?peddling facial recognition tech to law enforcement. Not today. @ozm I profile @brighterAI, a startup that uses deep natural anonymization (face-swapping!) to protect faces. cc: @kashhill https://t.co/wAhcat6HUw

— Evan Selinger (@EvanSelinger) August 20, 2020

This is really interesting: startup brighter AI developed a product to subvert facial recognition systems not by blurring faces, which ruins the integrity of a photograph, but by replacing them with “synthetic” versions. @EvanSelinger⁩ digs in for @ozm https://t.co/bfaUxaZGY1

— Damon Beres ? (@dlberes) August 20, 2020

Timely reminder that we desperately need a legal framework governing the use of facial recognition technology that is fit for purpose (esp. considering the bias inherently built into its structure & function, and the practices behind datasets creation) https://t.co/zr9cKlxkxL

— Irène DB (@UrbanFoxxxx) August 20, 2020

https://t.co/tmQgCzF8mD

They are using Clearview, which was created by an alt right guy and funded by alt right billionaires.

— Dave "Alive" Anthony (@daveanthony) August 20, 2020

This is exactly what we have been warning against. Facial recognition tech is now being used to identify protesters.

??KEEP??BANNING??FACE??SURVEILLANCE??https://t.co/OiPm5KCJDK

— Sarah A | ساره (@sa0un) August 20, 2020

Police in several cities, including New York and Miami, have reportedly been using controversial facial recognition software to track down and arrest individuals who allegedly participated in criminal activity during BLM protests months after the fact.https://t.co/9RubgxHJ3d

— ?? ???? ?? ???????? ?: 7️⃣5️⃣?? (@twidark1) August 19, 2020

"This policy...has the potential to be used as a wide dragnet to identify people who are at a protest, who happen to witness an alleged crime, regardless of whether they had any part in it or any other knowledge involving it," - @JeromeDGreco. https://t.co/11VyUdkcFK

— The Legal Aid Society (@LegalAidNYC) August 17, 2020

De Blasio suggested today that the NYPD only uses facial recognition on terrorists or other serious criminals. The Patrol Guide currently allows them to run the searches on all suspects, plus anyone may have *witnessed* a crime. https://t.co/BHeSUYD41w

— Jake Offenhartz (@jangelooff) August 17, 2020

Mayor de Blasio, we don't need "tighter restrictions" on #FacialRecognition, we need to ban it. https://t.co/F3MSKHGoTE

— Albert Fox Cahn? (He/Him) (@FoxCahn) August 17, 2020

There it is. Miami police used Clearview AI to identify and arrest a demonstrator during May protests following the death of George Floyd. https://t.co/d4XT7AHCzb

— Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) August 18, 2020

Miami Police Used Facial Recognition Technology in Protester’s Arrest – NBC 6 South Florida https://t.co/z21ycyNeAF

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) August 18, 2020

Meanwhile in Miami, police did use Clearview to identify a protestor who allegedly threw rocks at police. https://t.co/RDt6NlZti2

— Kashmir Hill (@kashhill) August 19, 2020

Miami police used #ClearviewAI #facialrecognition to identify a protester who has been accused of throwing a rock at police officers, running their image through a database of 3 billion illegally obtained photos that likely include pictures of you. https://t.co/JIJJ6cxSL8 pic.twitter.com/YBnvQdqxjH

— Fight for the Future (@fightfortheftr) August 19, 2020

‘A facial recognition program was used to identify a woman accused of throwing rocks at Miami Police officers during a protest (..) police used the facial recognition program Clearview AI to find her’ https://t.co/s37sQlLPlN

— Henrik Moltke (@moltke) August 18, 2020

"A recent NBC 6 investigation found police departments across South Florida, including Miami, are using the technology, which identifies people through publicly available photos including social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram."https://t.co/vQMuBvTrqe

— John Robb (@johnrobb) August 18, 2020

Miami Police used #ClearviewAI facial recognition to arrest protester. Clearview gathered its FR database by scanning your social media photos (Twitter, Google, Youtube, Facebook, Venmo, etc) without asking. h/t @maassive https://t.co/7JU2mknGoX

— Kurt Opsahl (@kurtopsahl) August 18, 2020

Remember when the NYPD send 50 officers, & helicopters to besiege the home of a Black Lives Matter leader, bc they say he shouted into a cop's ear w/ a bullhorn?

It looks like NYPD used facial recognition & images from Instagram as part of its operation. https://t.co/9VddcFiv2r

— Avi Asher-Schapiro (@AASchapiro) August 15, 2020

"The campaign website, Protect Photo, provides a free privacy engineering service that quickly removes 'facial fingerprints' from user-uploaded images."#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #FacialRecognitionhttps://t.co/am8F5yjQFd

— CDT EU (@cdteu) August 21, 2020

"while obscurity filters can be useful tools for fighting against all kinds of robot #surveillance, they have limitations.... Deploying technological solutions to protect people from surveillance threats sets off a cat-and-mouse arms race".?@EvanSelinger https://t.co/90NUujxWoD

— Dorothea Baur (@DorotheaBaur) August 20, 2020

An effort to protect #privacy, with "an ethical limitation baked into the #code--an attempt to prevent bad actors from using #software to create socially detrimental deepfakes": https://t.co/AoXp3yFmPJ @EvanSelinger #ethics #tech #facialrecognition #law

— Internet Ethics (@IEthics) August 20, 2020

Senate Bill Would Expand #FacialRecognition Restrictions Nationwide #AI #Privacy #Cybersecurity https://t.co/PtYxXqz9zR

— Paula Piccard ?? ?? (@Paula_Piccard) August 20, 2020

If you can’t see the danger here to free expression, privacy, political freedom, and liberty then you aren’t looking.

Cops in Miami, NYC arrest protesters from facial recognition matches | Ars Technica https://t.co/klVZMvMIAa

— Andrew G. Ferguson (@ProfFerguson) August 20, 2020