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  • This is already a few years old and it’s been a cat and mouse game for years already. This was done in Hong Kong for a while and it turned out difficult for them because you can’t easily remove it, you are still recognizable as someone who went there. I believe the next step was using more subtle make-up to give their face a different look because facial recognition makes a pattern, changing where your cheekbones seem end and start or how point your chin looks breaks the system. But then the police started tweaking their system so they could better see faces with filters and infra-red camera’s so I believe now they use small devices that blur of block the camera’s view of the face. Might be that also doesn’t work anymore but haven’t heard much about Hong kong lately tbh.

    This might work if your always in a big group and want to prevent being found later, because if you make it home unseen they might not be able to track you there. But still, although your real face isn’t recognizable by regular camera’s, you as an individual are still easily tracked since you stand out.










  • Italy, Spain and three other southern EU countries have criticised a proposed Franco-British migration deal, arguing it could leave them having to take back people returned from the UK to the continent.

    The five nations, which also include Greece, Malta and Cyprus, have sent a letter to the European Commission, seen by the Financial Times, objecting to France negotiating an arrangement to swap asylum seekers with Britain in a bid to deter migrants from crossing the Channel in boats.



  • I’m pasting the description of that post here, because it might mean someone reads this who otherwise wouldn’t have:

    Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites over the past month. Conversations with officers and soldiers reveal that commanders ordered troops to shoot at crowds to drive them away or disperse them, even though it was clear they posed no threat.

    “It’s a killing field,” one soldier said. “Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day. They’re treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. Then, once the center opens, the shooting stops, and they know they can approach. Our form of communication is gunfire.”

    The soldier added, “We open fire early in the morning if someone tries to get in line from a few hundred meters away, and sometimes we just charge at them from close range. But there’s no danger to the forces.” According to him, “I’m not aware of a single instance of return fire. There’s no enemy, no weapons.” He also said the activity in his area of service is referred to as Operation Salted Fish – the name of the Israeli version of the children’s game “Red light, green light”.






  • STOCKHOLM, June 26 (Reuters) - Tech lobbying group CCIA Europe, whose members include Alphabet, Meta, and Apple, on Thursday urged European Union to pause implementation of the AI Act, saying a rushed roll-out risks jeopardizing the continent’s AI aspirations.

    Europe’s landmark AI rules entered into force in June last year with various provisions to be implemented in a phased manner.

    Important provisions of the EU AI Act, including rules for general purpose AI (GPAI) models, were due to apply on August 2. But some parts of the GPAI, which were expected to be published on May 2, got delayed.

    “With critical parts of the AI Act still missing just weeks before rules kick in, we need a pause to get the Act right, or risk stalling innovation altogether,” said Daniel Friedlaender, CCIA Europe’s senior vice president.

    Political leaders such as Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson have also called, AI rules “confusing” and asked the EU to pause the Act, ahead of a meeting with other EU leaders in Brussels on Thursday.

    More than two-thirds of European businesses said they struggle to understand their responsibilities under the EU AI Act, according to a survey by Amazon Web Services.





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