I wonder if Google can scan its street images to extract this kind of information?
License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of Political Lawn Signs and Bumper Stickers
Wired: While people put up signs in their yards or bumper stickers on their cars to inform people of their views and potentially influence those around them, the ACLU’s Stanley says it’s intended for “human-scale visibility.” not to that of machines. “They may want to express themselves in their communities, to their neighbors, but they don’t necessarily want to be registered in a national database that law enforcement can access,” Stanley says. Weist says the system, at a minimum, should be able to filter out images that do not contain license plate data and not make errors. “Any number of times is too many, especially when it comes to finding things like what people are wearing or lawn signs,” Weist says. “License plate recognition (LPR) technology supports public safety and community services, from helping find kidnapped children and stolen vehicles to automating toll collection and reducing insurance premiums by mitigating insurance fraud,” says Jeremiah DRN President Wheeler said in a statement. Weist believes that given the relatively small number of images showing bumper stickers compared to the large number of vehicles that have them, Motorola Solutions may be attempting to filter images containing bumper stickers or other text. Wheeler did not respond to WIRED’s questions about whether there are limits on what can be searched in license plate databases, why images of houses with lawn signs but no vehicles in sight appeared in search results, or if filters are used to reduce these images. “DRNsights complies with all applicable laws and regulations,” says Wheeler. “The DRNsights tool allows authorized parties to access license plate information and associated vehicle information that is captured in public locations and visible to everyone. Access is restricted to customers for certain purposes permitted by law, and those who violate these purposes have their access revoked.”
Tools & Techniques.
https://www.bespacific.com/deleted-tweet-finder-tool/
Deleted Tweet Finder Tool
Digital Digging – Deleted Tweet Finder V2.3 Search for deleted tweets across multiple archival service: Your Best Shot at Finding Impossible-to-Find Tweets is made by AI. Have you ever encountered a broken link to a tweet and wondered what it said? Or maybe you’re curious about a particular user’s past tweets? The Deleted Tweet Finder tool can help you uncover those missing tweets. Claude 3.5 Sonnet programmed it with the help of Henk van Ess.
Tools & Techniques. (Useful for police and stalkers?)
Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers
The technology, which marries Meta’s smart Ray Ban glasses with the facial recognition service Pimeyes and some other tools, lets someone automatically go from face, to name, to phone number, and home address.
A pair of students at Harvard have built what big tech companies refused to release publicly due to the overwhelming risks and danger involved: smart glasses with facial recognition technology that automatically looks up someone’s face and identifies them. The students have gone a step further too. Their customized glasses also pull other information about their subject from around the web, including their home address, phone number, and family members.
The project is designed to raise awareness of what is possible with this technology, and the pair are not releasing their code, AnhPhu Nguyen, one of the creators, told 404 Media. But the experiment, tested in some cases on unsuspecting people in the real world according to a demo video, still shows the razor thin line between a world in which people can move around with relative anonymity, to one where your identity and personal information can be pulled up in an instant by strangers.
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