On facial recognition, surveillance, privacy, and the art project that tests whether we've given up.
FaceTwin and Prank My Face are the same engine behind two doors: a privacy art piece and a prank tool. The framing alone decides who shares it and why.
A digital art experiment that sends people a fake facial recognition result using their own photo — and nobody questions where it came from.
Passwords can be reset. Credit cards can be cancelled. Your face is forever. When companies scrape billions of photos, that data never expires.
The EU has the AI Act. Illinois has BIPA. At the federal level? Nothing. Here's why your face has fewer legal protections than your email.
AI models default to beautiful images. For a surveillance experiment to work, photos must look like someone's Facebook upload from 2013.
A 34% error rate for dark-skinned women. Under 1% for white men. Facial recognition gets deployed anyway — and the people it misidentifies pay for it.
How Clearview AI scraped 30B public photos into the world's largest facial recognition database — without consent, with no real opt-out.
Airport gates scan your face. Stores track your shopping. Concert venues match you against databases. Nobody opted in. Almost nobody opts out.
From CV Dazzle face paint to AI-generated protest art, a growing movement of artists is turning surveillance tools into weapons of resistance.