{"id":49849,"date":"2019-11-28T10:42:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T15:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49849"},"modified":"2019-11-28T10:42:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T15:42:27","slug":"facial-recognition-robocops-see-through-our-clothes-and-listen-to-our-phone-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49849","title":{"rendered":"Facial Recognition &#8220;Robocops&#8221; See Through Our Clothes And Listen To Our Phone Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/massprivatei.blogspot.com\/2019\/11\/facial-recognition-robocops-see-through.html\">Facial Recognition &#8220;Robocops&#8221; See Through Our Clothes And Listen To Our Phone Calls<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/trekB2sZoOI?feature=player_embedded&amp;wmode=opaque\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been six months, since I informed the public about the dangers of police&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.knightscope.com\/\">Knightscope robots<\/a>&nbsp;that look an awful lot like Doctor Who&#8217;s infamous&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/massprivatei.blogspot.com\/2013\/12\/daleks-coming-to-school-near-you-may.html?q=Knightscope\">Dalek&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/massprivatei.blogspot.com\/2019\/06\/spying-police-robots-daleks-coming-to.html?q=Knightscope\">article<\/a>&nbsp;I warned people that police would use Knightscope&#8217;s thermal imaging cameras to identify what is under everyone&#8217;s clothes. (To learn more about public imaging scanners click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/massprivatei.blogspot.com\/2019\/05\/police-to-use-tsa-style-scanners-to-spy.html\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/onezero.medium.com\/heres-how-knightscope-s-security-robots-surveil-the-public-c2c6d14ee2c2\">article<\/a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em>One Zero<\/em>&nbsp;revealed that Knightscope has turned their Robocop&#8217;s into mobile facial recognition devices that can also blacklist people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--QI_N_iaSxo\/Xdv676Es8rI\/AAAAAAAALfM\/sD0ahA5gAe0gev6NttpD-i-U1SSG6fimACLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/Knight.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--QI_N_iaSxo\/Xdv676Es8rI\/AAAAAAAALfM\/sD0ahA5gAe0gev6NttpD-i-U1SSG6fimACLcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/Knight.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption>credit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/onezero.medium.com\/heres-how-knightscope-s-security-robots-surveil-the-public-c2c6d14ee2c2\">One Zero<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;One presentation slide features the company\u2019s facial recognition capabilities, indicating that the company can surface a known person\u2019s name, the similarity of the person\u2019s face compared to a known image, and a log of other identities that the robot has seen.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is bad enough that the Feds and police use secret blacklists but it is an entirely different story when private companies like Knightscope use facial recognition to do the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What we are seeing is a total transformation of our legal system run by corporate interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>One Zero<\/em>&nbsp;revealed that Knightscope can label someone a person of interest with terms like,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/onezero.medium.com\/heres-how-knightscope-s-security-robots-surveil-the-public-c2c6d14ee2c2\">&#8220;causes trouble or sketchy dude.<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thesaurus.com describes &#8217;causes trouble&#8217; as,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesaurus.com\/browse\/cause%20trouble\">&#8220;challenging the status quo, to disagree or to protest.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>If law enforcement is using Robocops to blacklist people for challenging the status quo or disagreeing with our government then we all need to sit up and take notice.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article also indicated that Knightscope has access to things like domestic violence records, drivers license suspensions, custody disputes, and of course hostile terminations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Giving corporations access to court records and license plate information at the touch of a button is like opening all the flood gates of the Panama Canal at once and hoping nothing catastrophic happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facial Recognition &#8220;Robocops&#8221; See Through Our Clothes And Listen To Our Phone Calls It has been six months, since I informed the public about the dangers of police&nbsp;Knightscope robots&nbsp;that look an awful lot like Doctor Who&#8217;s infamous&nbsp;Dalek&#8217;s. 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