Per newsweek’s article, https://www.newsweek.com/taylor-swi...tware-locate-stalkers-concert-did-she-1256572
Fans were reportedly unaware that a kiosk playing rehearsal footage from Swift's Reputation Stadium Tour scanned their faces as they stopped to watch the video. The data was then sent to a location in Nashville, Tennessee where the images were checked against a list of Swift's known stalkers.
However, despite Swift's security measures, the question remains as to where the collected data has gone, how long it will be stored, and if the privacy of concertgoers was violated.
"Face recognition is one of the most dangerous biometrics from a privacy standpoint because it can so easily be expanded and abused — including by being deployed on a mass scale without people’s knowledge or permission," ACLU senior policy analyst Jay Stanley wrote. Unquote.
Sidebar: Amazon’s facial recognition tech incorrectly identified 28 members of Congress as people who had been arrested for committing a crime, testing of the software discovered.
Analysis from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) this week said a dataset of publicly available mugshots had been “disproportionately” matched with people of color, including civil rights pioneer Representative John Lewis and five other members of the Congressional Black Caucus. U.S. politicians are now demanding answers from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos over the results. https://www.newsweek.com/amazons-fa...28-members-congress-criminal-mugshots-1044850
Fans were reportedly unaware that a kiosk playing rehearsal footage from Swift's Reputation Stadium Tour scanned their faces as they stopped to watch the video. The data was then sent to a location in Nashville, Tennessee where the images were checked against a list of Swift's known stalkers.
However, despite Swift's security measures, the question remains as to where the collected data has gone, how long it will be stored, and if the privacy of concertgoers was violated.
"Face recognition is one of the most dangerous biometrics from a privacy standpoint because it can so easily be expanded and abused — including by being deployed on a mass scale without people’s knowledge or permission," ACLU senior policy analyst Jay Stanley wrote. Unquote.
Sidebar: Amazon’s facial recognition tech incorrectly identified 28 members of Congress as people who had been arrested for committing a crime, testing of the software discovered.
Analysis from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) this week said a dataset of publicly available mugshots had been “disproportionately” matched with people of color, including civil rights pioneer Representative John Lewis and five other members of the Congressional Black Caucus. U.S. politicians are now demanding answers from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos over the results. https://www.newsweek.com/amazons-fa...28-members-congress-criminal-mugshots-1044850
