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Did you see portishead? Just curious.
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Cowboys by Portishead gives me goosebumps every time I hear it
Edit: Link, because I had to go listen to it as it’s been years: https://youtu.be/ApQpx-MVk0w
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The singer has always been about exposing problems the media won’t cover. I think it actually led to a schism and a few of the members leaving about two decades ago.
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Nice, face recognition surveillance for sure is because to protect our childrens.
Who the hell can afford children ?
Some people on islands can afford many
It’s crazy that suicide among youth has gone up in the past 20 years. Whatever they’re doing to “protect the children” they need to stop.
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.
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?
That is technically biometric data
Technically it’s not until it’s quantified and hashed, it’s just an image. Until measured, it’s not metrics.
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.
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.
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.
Still, why the fuck does that exist, and why is it allowed? It shouldn’t be there.
I believe this would be illegal in Illinois, which regulates biometric data collection
Yeah
No shit
That was the point
I think that was their point… to call out the use of facial recognition
So a normal concert?
Oh that’s very interesting. I didn’t get that nuance from the article. Do you have a link to more info?
Yes, it’s the link to the Youtube clip in the embed in the article.
Specifically, this link, which looked like a twitter link to me.
extreme ironer
I did come across that hobby when I was trying to list examples of productive sports. Yeah, it’s a thing.
https://x.com/IpswichPolice/status/1892910824517177743
I do trust Massiva Attack more than this violent gang of thugs
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 ?
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.
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.
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Something happening all the time doesn’t mean that it’s good and you should just accept it.
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.
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The only people offended by this are those who have something to hide!
/s
Which would be most people?
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.
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
So instead of like 1 or 2% it’s now like 5%. Still not a majority
Yes, the ignorants, which is exactly why we have artists, it’s basically their most important jerb
People getting mad at massive attack are missing the point completely
Massive Attack = Banksy. You heard it from me first. Or maybe you didn’t and you knew it already all along.
Shhht, the british government is looking for him
this isn’t new, this has been hypothesized for many years now
That was one god awful website. Holy shit. Why would anybody willingly visit that site. Wtf
To review gadgets ofc…
OH!
It’s ok-ish?
yeah it was way less offensive than the typical news sites that get posted
pinhole ftw?
I got a video that started playing which only had an arrow to expand but no x to close. It kept following while scrolling.
Not sure why my ad blocker didn’t block it.
Edit: after staying on the page for about a minute it just auto showed up
Ah, i have it set to block 3rd party frames (anywhere, since almost only ad stuff uses this) and 3rd-party scripts (on mobile, breaks some things), probably that’s why.
It’s time to switch to IronFox
I was on fennec, but I’ll have a look! :)
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It takes a (short while to show ). I also have uBlock origin in my phone ( with fennec ) and it did show for me for some reason
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Oh hang on. My ad blocker was disabled. I turned it off to test something because my browser kept hanging when surfing the web on my phone.
It is related to ublock origin for some reason. Because the moment I turn it off I can browse like normal.
Case solved why I’m getting it :)
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funny enough my thesis involves orwellian spying, palantir type of shit
Good. A little bit of shock treatment is just what the doctor ordered.
Same software was used in the Netherlands on Appelpop.
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.
This is why I no longer go out in public.
I dont go out because outside costs $250 a day.
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Was this an attack or just some artistic BS? The article is unclear. Mostly because the article wasn’t written by a person.
Massive Attack is the name of the band. The article was not ambiguous about that
I’ll gladly introduce you to Massive Attack because it seems you never heard of these Trip Hop legends from Bristol.
I definitely parsed the headline wrong at first! But c’mon, even if you’ve never heard of the band, the second sentence of the article links to their webpage…
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Can I have housing OwO ?
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the 20th anniversary of mezzanine @ radio city with full orchestral band all instrumental was wiiiiild too; kudos!
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
