Adoption of the tech has civil liberties advocates alarmed, especially as the government vows to expand surveillance of protesters and students.
Police and federal agencies have found a controversial new way to skirt the growing patchwork of laws that curb how they use facial recognition: an AI model that can track people using attributes like body size, gender, hair color and style, clothing, and accessories.
Gait tracking isn't new. But doing this goes against the spirit of the antifacialrecog laws. Unless lawmakers enforce that part of the interpretation, then they're allowing a very dangerous precedent (which, I'm assuming, they know and intend).