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Sunday, May 25, 2025

Facial recognition is controversial and often banned. But new AI-based technology identifies people without scanning their faces.

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"Police forces scanned nearly 4.7m faces with live facial recognition cameras last year - more than twice as many as in 2023. "Live facial recognition vans were deployed at least 256 times in 2024, according to official deployment records, up from 63 the year before."

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-- Matt Burgess (WIRED) (@mattburgess1.bsky.social) May 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM

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... As with face recognition tech, Veritone Track uses AI to spot, identify, and follow people. But unlike facial recognition, it uses body size, gender, hair color, clothing, accessories, and more.

Police departments that use Track can choose attributes from a menu (specific types and colors of clothing, hats, backpacks, and other items), and then the system shows them video clips of people matching the user-selected criteria.

The system can also track vehicles by make and model, rather than by license plate, and it can stitch together clips from different cameras (CCTV, body cameras, drone footage, social media, and smartphone uploads) to build a timeline of location.

More than 400 clients, including police departments, universities, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and others, are already using Track, Veritone says. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-24 06:11 PM | Reply

... uses AI to spot, identify, and follow people. But unlike facial recognition, it uses body size, gender, hair color, clothing, accessories, and more. ...

So... wearing a mask doesn't reduce the ability of this system to perfom its recognition tasks?



#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-25 07:00 PM | Reply

Another view ...

Wi-Fi tracking: A data gold mine or privacy nightmare? (2020)
www.retaildive.com

... When customers carry phones with Wi-Fi turned on, their presence can be tracked, even if they are not connected to a network.

Each Wi-Fi enabled device broadcasts its MAC address, a unique identifier for that device, that can be detected by a tracker device or standard off-the-shelf Wi-Fi access point.

Retailers can measure how many people pass by the store, how many enter, and track their journey within the store. ...



#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-25 08:32 PM | Reply

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