Autonomie und Solidarität<p>How goverments are using facial recognition to crack down on protesters</p><p>Mass protests used to offer a degree of safety in numbers. <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/FacialRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FacialRecognition</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> changes the equation.</p><p>"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. <br>(...)<br>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.” </p><p>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 <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/authorities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authorities</span></a> to capture people’s identities en masse."</p><p><a href="https://restofworld.org/2024/facial-recognition-government-protest-surveillance/#/an-end-to-privacy" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">restofworld.org/2024/facial-re</span><span class="invisible">cognition-government-protest-surveillance/#/an-end-to-privacy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Protest</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Repression</span></a></p>