AI Will Soon Identify Protesters With Their Faces Partly Concealed

The research has troubling implications for protestors and other dissidents, who often work to make sure they aren’t ID’d at protests and other demonstrations by covering their faces with scarves or by wearing sunglasses. “To be honest when I was trying to come up with this method, I was just trying to focus on criminals,” Amarjot Singh, one of the researchers behind the paper and a Ph.D student at Cambridge University, told me on a phone call.

Source: AI Will Soon Identify Protesters With Their Faces Partly Concealed – Motherboard