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Dressing for the surveillance age: Is there anything fashion can do to counter the erosion of public anonymity?
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- Title
- Dressing for the Surveillance Age
- Authors
- The New Yorker
- Word count
- 7101 words
This jumped out at me. For all of the security cameras out there, do people actually feel any safer? I know that if I was on a train platform late at night in NYC by myself and some random person walked up to me, I wouldn't feel any safer knowing there was a security camera watching.
Does all this surveillance actually lower crime levels? (I'm not begging the question here - I'm genuinely asking, since I can't recall seeing any stats to that effect)
These are the kinds of things that I'm hoping advances in computer vision and learning will be used for, not mass surveillance of people.
Scientists have been saying for a while now that when it comes to recognizing individual humans, algorithms are horribly biased against non-white people. Hopefully the trend of police departments using facial recognition software starts to reverse over the next few years. No one should end up in jail simply because a computer said they should.