"The Met’s own data show that of more than a thousand people flagged by facial recognition since the beginning of 2025, more than half had no arrest warrants against them – yet the force also insists that nobody has been wrongly arrested since the beginning of 2023, twisting words to claim that because police officers thought the arrests were justified at the time, the arrests were not wrong."

#UKPol #Racism #CCTV #FacialRecognition

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/11/01/4-5-misidentified-by-facial-recognition-are-black/

"The Met’s own data show that of more than a thousand people flagged by facial recognition since the beginning of 2025, more than half had no arrest warrants against them – yet the force also insists that nobody has been wrongly arrested since the beginning of 2023, twisting words to claim that because police officers thought the arrests were justified at the time, the arrests were not wrong."

#UKPol #Racism #CCTV #FacialRecognition

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/11/01/4-5-misidentified-by-facial-recognition-are-black/

As is the case with every city hosting an international sporting event, Mexico City has now announced a shiny new mass surveillance project in time for next year's World Cup: "Ojos que te cuidan," "Eyes that care for you."

Just in case the name itself weren't panoptic enough, the coverage, the #CCTV photos!!!! by this sports tabloid are… is it in bad taste to say, chef's kiss*?

* for someone writing a dissertation/book on #surveillance in #Mexico

https://www.record.com.mx/contra/cdmx-tendra-mas-camaras-de-videovigilancia-que-nueva-york-o-rio-de-janeiro-conocelas

I'm selfhosting a cctv system, Frigate.

Two ip cameras and an old laptop.

I was able to check on my cats while I was on vacations. Really cool.

The only problem is that I couldn't find free/open ip cameras. I got two proprietary cameras that work with proprietary (and poorly written) android app. Had to use and old phone to set up the cameras, the rstp:// urls and static ip addresses. I hated every minute I spent on that app.

But frigate was really easy to install and configure. Sadly, it's linux-centric, like most of modern foss.

https://frigate.video

#frigate #foss #cctv #nvr #ipcam

I'm selfhosting a cctv system, Frigate.

Two ip cameras and an old laptop.

I was able to check on my cats while I was on vacations. Really cool.

The only problem is that I couldn't find free/open ip cameras. I got two proprietary cameras that work with proprietary (and poorly written) android app. Had to use and old phone to set up the cameras, the rstp:// urls and static ip addresses. I hated every minute I spent on that app.

But frigate was really easy to install and configure. Sadly, it's linux-centric, like most of modern foss.

https://frigate.video

#frigate #foss #cctv #nvr #ipcam

LeBron James has become the first NBA player to author a piece in China's state-run People's Daily newspaper, an unusual move suggesting the league's years-long row with Beijing could be coming to an end. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/09/09/basketball/lebron-james-china-letter/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #basketball #lebronjames #china #people039sdaily #cctv

As is the case with every city hosting an international sporting event, Mexico City has now announced a shiny new mass surveillance project in time for next year's World Cup: "Ojos que te cuidan," "Eyes that care for you."

Just in case the name itself weren't panoptic enough, the coverage, the #CCTV photos!!!! by this sports tabloid are… is it in bad taste to say, chef's kiss*?

* for someone writing a dissertation/book on #surveillance in #Mexico

https://www.record.com.mx/contra/cdmx-tendra-mas-camaras-de-videovigilancia-que-nueva-york-o-rio-de-janeiro-conocelas

A great deal of #LLM and #AI is indeed hype and bullshit, but there's many basic #surveillance tasks (mostly pattern matching, and monitoring deviations from normal behaviour) that basic algorithms can very easily process quicker than humans, and feed their findings to humans for such purposes as #traffic #law enforcement - already #Australia and #UK are working together on "AI" enabled #CCTV cameras with #ANPR monitoring, that can detect not only #speeding but illegal use of #mobile phones and possible #DUI or defective vehicles (such as where the driver is having difficulty staying in correct lane)

A great deal of #LLM and #AI is indeed hype and bullshit, but there's many basic #surveillance tasks (mostly pattern matching, and monitoring deviations from normal behaviour) that basic algorithms can very easily process quicker than humans, and feed their findings to humans for such purposes as #traffic #law enforcement - already #Australia and #UK are working together on "AI" enabled #CCTV cameras with #ANPR monitoring, that can detect not only #speeding but illegal use of #mobile phones and possible #DUI or defective vehicles (such as where the driver is having difficulty staying in correct lane)

Hello Mastodon,
Here's my #introduction post.

Former #graphicdesigner and #webdeveloper at #OpenSourcePublishing, I gradually turned my practice to #textiledesign. Still exploring free and open source software, programming but in relation to many textile techniques.

My main practice is #knitting, #machineknitting and #visiblemending. But I love to explore any #fiberarts related #technique.

In 2020, I joined the #textile #fablab@GreenFabric in #brussels where I like to build / #hack #machines for textile.

In 2024, I joined the #Fabricademy programme ( #textile and #technology) where I made digitally knitted garments to bypass #CCTV #facerecognition.
I am now a Fabricademy instructor!

A little picture as intro: My Mother was a Computer. Title borrowed from media theoretician Katherine N. Hayles. This is the opening piece of a series of knitted portraits of women who played a major role in the history of computing.

I'm super happy to find back my old family here in Lurk/Mastodon (you know who you are 😊 ). 💜

Hello Mastodon,
Here's my #introduction post.

Former #graphicdesigner and #webdeveloper at #OpenSourcePublishing, I gradually turned my practice to #textiledesign. Still exploring free and open source software, programming but in relation to many textile techniques.

My main practice is #knitting, #machineknitting and #visiblemending. But I love to explore any #fiberarts related #technique.

In 2020, I joined the #textile #fablab@GreenFabric in #brussels where I like to build / #hack #machines for textile.

In 2024, I joined the #Fabricademy programme ( #textile and #technology) where I made digitally knitted garments to bypass #CCTV #facerecognition.
I am now a Fabricademy instructor!

A little picture as intro: My Mother was a Computer. Title borrowed from media theoretician Katherine N. Hayles. This is the opening piece of a series of knitted portraits of women who played a major role in the history of computing.

I'm super happy to find back my old family here in Lurk/Mastodon (you know who you are 😊 ). 💜