EFF's list of costume ideas for digital rights activists include a
Stingray costume, dressing up like a Privacy Badger (or a patent troll),
and using facepaint to simulate the eerie digitization algorithms
that are currently capturing images of your face for government
databases.
"Just this week we learned that facial recognition is far
more prevalent among local and federal law enforcement than we thought,
with at least 26 states using this biometric technology...
To draw attention to this emerging threat to privacy, you can use your
face painting skills to recreate the digitization algorithms on your own
mug based on public records we and others have obtained from law
enforcement agencies."
Sixteen states already grant the FBI access to their DMV databases, reports EFF, noting that it's "almost completely unregulated," with one study reporting that 50% of American faces are already in a government database.
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