How a new type of AI is helping police skirt facial recognition bans | Adoption of the tech has civil liberties advocates alarmed, especially as the government vows to expand surveillance of protesters and students
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/12/1116295/how-a-new-type-of-ai-is-helping-police-skirt-facial-recognition-bans/
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“Police and federal agencies have found a controversial new way to skirt the growing patchwork of laws that curb how they use facial recognition: an AI model that can track people using attributes like body size, gender, hair color and style, clothing, and accessories.
Veritone gave us a demonstration of Track in which it analyzed people in footage from different environments, ranging from the January 6 riots to subway stations. You can use it to find people by specifying body size, gender, hair color and style, shoes, clothing, and various accessories. The tool can then assemble timelines, tracking a person across different locations and video feeds.”
Trump will have no issues using this and try to change privacy laws to actually do so.
“China” is closer than you think.
People tend to wear the same clothing and given height and movement like gait its easy to deduce who it is.
This tool doesn’t really seem all that much different from a very experienced law enforcement professional. They can track an individual in crowds if given all the footage, and with a reasonably high accuracy, just takes longer.