#Skwawkbox | Breaking: Met Police installing permanent live facial recognition cameras

Force slammed for racism, misogyny and homophobia, which serves police state and is stitching up anti-genocide protesters will soon be able to spy on you across the capital. What could go wrong?

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/03/24/breaking-met-police-installing-permanent-live-facial-recognition-cameras/

30 high value #bicycles have been #stolen from a #bikeshop in Rushmere St Andrew (a suburb just outside #Ipswich in East #Suffolk) by sophisticated #criminals who disabled outside #CCTV and cut #Openreach cables (to prevent #alarms and CCTV activating).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e73elen5go

#Colchester in #Essex is apparently 9th most surveilled area in the UK, according to counts of #Council #CCTV camera schemes..

I guess this is what comes of ignoring the long term effects of #ToxicMasculinity for 30 years (and also being a town with an active #military #barracks) - nearly 20 years ago a young lass told me how the city streets were a warzone at night due to angry men on 'roids and #cocaine

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/24977056.colchester-revealed-9th-surveilled-area-uk/

#BBC report on the #CCTV #surveillance networks of the #Taliban in #Kabul #Afghanistan

I am very sceptical they have 90 000 cameras in a public funded CCTV scheme for just one capital - even UK cities don't have as many as that - and where are they getting the bandwidth from, they would need more advanced broadband and LTE than many Western nations!)

(I think the real number of cameras is likely a few thousand)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjev9kzxeqqo

#security #OpenSource #cctv

Question to enthusiasts:

How do I avoid vendor lock-in with expensive NVRs and other PC equipment in order to create a small CCTV network of about 100 IP cameras in a wireless network?

I understand that the radio/network technology is closed/proprietary + the IP cameras are closed/proprietary, but hopefully there is an OSS solution that can achieve what commercial NVRs can?

I'd also like to avoid Zoneminder.

Seeking suggestions.

NEW PRESS CARTOON! - NOUVEAU DESSIN DE PRESSE !

(and it's finally some good news )

— France —

: Victoire juridique contre la vidéosurveillance algorithmique

: Legal victory against algorithmic video surveillance

"GullCam"
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Some more pictures of the #patterns to bypass #cctv #facerecognition.

Picture 1: data visualisation of CCTVs ratios in 5 European cities (cctv/surface, cctv/population, cctv/crime index). #knitting on the #kniterate machine

Picture 2: doodled stripes on #inkscape with hatches paste effect. #knitting on the #kniterate machine

Picture 3: #sewing a ready-made pattern from deadstock fabrics

Picture 4: Exhibition view. A visitor trying the garment with live CCTV face recognition (#opencv)

Model: Élodie Goldberg
#fabricademy project 2024

For more info see my previous post!

strip-p-ed out

A 3 months #research around #patterns to bypass #cctv #facerecognition.
Tested with #opencv.
Project done in the #fabricademy, a programme over textile and technology, at the @greenfabric node.

I knitted 2 kimonos on a #kniterate, a semi-industrial #machineknitting with deadstock yarns. The 3rd one is a deadstock fabric whose pattern was already a working #camouflage for opencv.

The project is fully documented here:
http://class.textile-academy.org/2024/stephanie-vilayphiou/project/

Concerning cctv surveillance, France has recently gone crazy over it... it seems like they want to recognise logos from organisations in protests and faces associated with them... does someone know an opencv algorithm to detect specific images? Or does it necessarily go through machine learning?

Hello Mastodon,
Here's my #introduction post.

Former #graphicdesigner and #webdeveloper at #OpenSourcePublishing, I gradually turned my practice to #textiledesign. Still exploring free and open source software, programming but in relation to many textile techniques.

My main practice is #knitting, #machineknitting and #visiblemending. But I love to explore any #fiberarts related #technique.

In 2020, I joined the #textile #fablab @GreenFabric in #brussels where I like to build / #hack #machines for textile.

In 2024, I joined the #Fabricademy programme ( #textile and #technology) where I made digitally knitted garments to bypass #CCTV #facerecognition.
I am now a Fabricademy instructor!

A little picture as intro: My Mother was a Computer. Title borrowed from media theoretician Katherine N. Hayles. This is the opening piece of a series of knitted portraits of women who played a major role in the history of computing.

I'm super happy to find back my old family here in Lurk/Mastodon (you know who you are :) ).

"US police claim to use #FacialRecognition technology just as an investigatory lead, but in practice officers routinely ignore protocol and immediately arrest the most likely match spit out by the computer without first doing their own investigation."

"Cities across the United States have decided to join the growing movement to ban police use of face recognition, because this technology is simply too dangerous in the hands of police."

#Policing #Surveillance #CCTV

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/police-use-face-recognition-continues-wrack-real-world-harms

+TAG 3 #38C3 - Überwachungsspaziergang (DEMO)+

Wir tragen den Congress auf die Straße und besichtigen den #Hansaplatz - das KI-Überwachungslabor der Polizei #Hamburg. Gemeinsam unterbrechen wir dort die Überwachung.

Los geht’s am Heidi-Kabel-Platz (direkt neben dem Hbf.) um 14:30 Uhr. Gemeinsamer Aufbruch vom Kongresszentrum um 14:00Uhr. Treffpunkt: Rakete
Voraussichtliches Ende 15:00 Uhr.

Start: Heidi-Kabel-Platz | Ende Hansaplatz

Well, at least I finally installed the cheap NVR+Camera we bought. Just not where it was supposed to go

"Police have been given the legal clearance to continue tapping into private cameras more than 200,000 times a year for evidence."

#PhilPennington, 2024

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/531737/cctv-is-ubiquitous-police-cleared-to-tap-into-private-cameras

The surveillance-industrial complex, hard at work. If David Seymour cared about democracy he'd be fighting this, not fighting the Crown's grudging recognition of its obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

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Wir sind politisch auf dem Weg in den autoritären #Überwachungsstaat!

#Chatkontrolle #Gesichtserkennung #Videoüberwachung #CCTV https://www.heise.de/news/CCC-denkt-Anleitung-zu-Sabotage-von-Ueberwachung-an-9865448.html

Just had a sponsored post for an #ANPR #surveillance camera scheme appear in my #Meta feed, from a company that sells "normal " #CCTV equipment. and burglar alarms. The kit seems as capable as that used by the public services, yet is clearly intended for small private users (such as guarding a yard/car park). Such schemes are widespread in #ESEA countries, but its the first time I've seen one advertised to the #UK market..

Been messing around with cheap Chinese CCTV. So we can record who the fuck leaves little black poops in front of our dog while he sleeps

This is XMeye based, so it must never get connected to the Internet and it really wants to, but it can be exorcised to work fine in island configuration. Then you get a pretty decent setup for an unbeatable price. Can still VPN into a DMZ for remote access, or have it drop files.

It's all PoE based, so only one cable per camera.

Interesting that old bill/heddlu are warning estate agents and sparkys and tradespeople against assisting the #cannabis grows - it seems all of them have been involved and some nicked for this - it certainly isn't #squatters growing the pot, town centres are full of #CCTV and it is nowadays difficult to get into an empty building without permission without being grassed up for #burglary

#UK #drugs #crime

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2x0x6ypgneo