Massive Attack used live facial recognition technology on concertgoers, turning surveillance into provocative art that sparked debate about privacy.
  • floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
    177·
    4 days ago

    If this disturbs you, then good. That was the point.

    These guys are amazing. Of all the shows I saw at Roseland NYC, theirs in 96 was the absolute best.

  • LordCrom@lemmy.world
    23·
    3 days ago

    Good. People don’t understand implications until it happens to them. Suddenly they don’t like this security features anymore because it became personal.

    We need more people to experience that discomfort

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
    741·
    4 days ago

    The only people offended by this are the ones who dont yet understand that this is happening constantly all over the place without your consent already.

    • MrGemeco@lemmy.worldNorsk bokmål
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      3 days ago

      It’s a great way to showcase that these things are in use and will be in use in places with bad privacy laws (and by those that ignore such laws). Most people don’t want to think that this happens on a daily basis, it’s logical for them when you tell them, but they’re busy with their lives and they don’t actually see it being done with their own eyes.

      Now tell them how this data is connected to your ticket and your face/video being analyzed after the fact, which is then sold off to become what is basically an quantification of you as a person to judge you and determine what your addictions, views and flaws are, in order to expoit it to make you as miserable as possible. And people won’t really believe it since it’s uncomfortable to believe in. Showing someone’s face makes it more believable and difficult to ignore.

    • bigfondue@lemmy.world
      102·
      4 days ago

      Something happening all the time doesn’t mean that it’s good and you should just accept it.

      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
        30·
        4 days ago

        No of course not. But in order to be able to not accept it, you have to know about it in the first place. Thats what this is perfect for. No harm done, lots of eyes opened.

      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        3 days ago

        Nah, not anymore. These tools are starting to be used by police without any remorse, so an ever increasing amount of people are aware. Its being used against immigrants, journalists, activists, etc. so the normie and privacy nerd worlds are starting to overlap.

        • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
          1·
          3 days ago

          But don’t the people who get caught, disappear in the gullet of the prison slavery system and never heard from again ? And if allowed the walk the streets again, they know talking about it puts a target on their back and the police will come smash the cardboard box they’re sleeping in at night. And that’s until they start with the involuntary lethals injections for those who “refuse ressources” as Fox & Friends put it

  • frongt@lemmy.zip
    101·
    4 days ago

    To be clear, the system picked out faces in the crowd, in the “yes, this is a face” sense. They were labeled in what appears to be random terms like positive, kind, nostalgic, bee keeper, gif animator, extreme ironer. No personal identification.

    • trailee@sh.itjust.works
      18·
      4 days ago

      Oh that’s very interesting. I didn’t get that nuance from the article. Do you have a link to more info?

    • scarilog@lemmy.world
      7·
      4 days ago

      Yeah this article is hot garbage. What “biometric data” are they talking about??? Just images of people’s faces? My understanding is that it’s super commonplace in public locations, are people really that surprised?

      • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
        101·
        4 days ago

        Yes, while its generally common on this platform, we are early adopters for tech so we understand it first. The general public gets exposure much slower, especially when there is efforts to subvert it for profit.

        Attention and time are limited, those that focus on tech know things first. Its the same as a chef knowing about food more than the average person.

        • frongt@lemmy.zip
          12·
          4 days ago

          Technically it’s not until it’s quantified and hashed, it’s just an image. Until measured, it’s not metrics.

          • xthexder@l.sw0.com
            41·
            3 days ago

            An image is a quantization of reality. An image alone is biometric data if it’s a picture of a face, fingerprint, or any other identifiable feature of a person.

          • stink@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
            2·
            4 days ago

            It’s very easy for even a private citizen to get a lot of information from someone just by using a picture of their face.

    • comfy@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 days ago

      extreme ironer

      I did come across that hobby when I was trying to list examples of productive sports. Yeah, it’s a thing.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 days ago

    If you live in a city (not only) anywhere, you are on at least 5-10 security cams when you leave your home on the way to work or the store, more counting those in your workplace and the store. Unknown how much are with face recognition soft. Think of it, you are tagget.

    Worst knowing that a lot of live cams are even with public access and even streaming on YouTube.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
    19·
    3 days ago

    Nice, face recognition surveillance for sure is because to protect our childrens.

  • merde alors@sh.itjust.works
    711·
    4 days ago

    Social media erupted with bewildered reactions from attendees. Some praised the band for forcing a conversation about surveillance that most people avoid, while others expressed discomfort with the unexpected data capture.

    Unlike typical concert technology that enhances your experience, this facial recognition system explicitly confronted attendees with the reality of data capture. The band made visible what usually happens invisibly—your face being recorded, analyzed, and potentially stored by systems you never explicitly agreed to interact with.

    The audience split predictably along ideological lines. Privacy advocates called it a boundary violation disguised as art. Others viewed it as necessary shock therapy for our sleepwalking acceptance of facial recognition in everyday spaces. Both reactions prove the intervention achieved its disruptive goal.

    Your relationship with facial recognition technology just got more complicated. Every venue, every event, every public space potentially captures your likeness. Massive Attack simply made the invisible visible—and deeply uncomfortable. The question now isn’t whether this was art or privacy violation, but whether you’re ready to confront how normalized surveillance has become in your daily life.

  • trailee@sh.itjust.works
    333·
    4 days ago

    This disturbs me in the best way. I love/hate it.

    I wonder how long they can run this before their backend database vendor cuts them off with some flimsy pretext because this kind of thing is bad for business.

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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      3 days ago

      The public were just nice to them while they were being evaluated for termination… What is wrong with the populace of ipswitch ? Are they all cattle already ?

  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
    6·
    4 days ago

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