| The aim of this project/campaign is not to be scary, but to raise awareness among policy makers and citizens. This is the background I want to highlight: 1. the first political fight is about the ban of real-time identification in public spaces. that's the dystopian scenario that nobody wants, and that's why we participated in the creation of https://reclaimyourface.eu in 2019. 2. the second (not because it's less important, but because it comes later chronologically) is not to let the monopolists get stronger roots. Both have their complexities, and the European Parliament made something OK for 1 and 2, now the Council of European Ministries is screwing up both. The ethical arguments: (i) massive biometric surveillance is bad in itself, (ii) the models are trained on biometric data collected without consent, (iii) and this is also fundamental to building the deepfakes (because the GNA discriminator uses a constant biometric comparison). Even if there are three reasons, the Council is saying "Dear Parliament, no, we want facial recognition and unregulated foundation model". So, DontSpyEU try to explain the related parts with a little prankish attitude, (and, btw, Microsoft lobbyists are just pushing their solutions, which are only meant to consolidate their monopoly) |