#fingerprints — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fingerprints, aggregated by home.social.
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Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits (ca. 1909) by Alphonse Bertillon, from Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/4529f311-3f60-4844-b67f-ef4dbc43a257
#biopower #foucault #fingerprints #ears #noses #filing #criminals #identification #taxonomy #faces #mouths #archives #police #physiognomy #eyes #bertillonage #art #publicdomain
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The State of Anti-Surveillance Design
To outsmart #surveillance systems, it’s helpful to understand them. #Facialrecognition —which identifies an individual face—works differently from #biometric scans that look at a person’s #iris or #fingerprints , & those systems work diff from #ALPR , which could in theory match an individual’s movements to a car through a DB. & consumer-level facial recognition systems, like #Pimeyes , operate using diff #algorithms & DB
#privacyhttps://www.404media.co/the-state-of-anti-surveillance-design/