The only people offended by this are the ones who dont yet understand that this is happening constantly all over the place without your consent already.
Something happening all the time doesn’t mean that it’s good and you should just accept it.
No of course not. But in order to be able to not accept it, you have to know about it in the first place. Thats what this is perfect for. No harm done, lots of eyes opened.
It’s a great way to showcase that these things are in use and will be in use in places with bad privacy laws (and by those that ignore such laws). Most people don’t want to think that this happens on a daily basis, it’s logical for them when you tell them, but they’re busy with their lives and they don’t actually see it being done with their own eyes.
Now tell them how this data is connected to your ticket and your face/video being analyzed after the fact, which is then sold off to become what is basically an quantification of you as a person to judge you and determine what your addictions, views and flaws are, in order to expoit it to make you as miserable as possible. And people won’t really believe it since it’s uncomfortable to believe in. Showing someone’s face makes it more believable and difficult to ignore.
The only people offended by this are those who have something to hide!
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Social media erupted with bewildered reactions from attendees. Some praised the band for forcing a conversation about surveillance that most people avoid, while others expressed discomfort with the unexpected data capture.
Unlike typical concert technology that enhances your experience, this facial recognition system explicitly confronted attendees with the reality of data capture. The band made visible what usually happens invisibly—your face being recorded, analyzed, and potentially stored by systems you never explicitly agreed to interact with.
The audience split predictably along ideological lines. Privacy advocates called it a boundary violation disguised as art. Others viewed it as necessary shock therapy for our sleepwalking acceptance of facial recognition in everyday spaces. Both reactions prove the intervention achieved its disruptive goal.
Your relationship with facial recognition technology just got more complicated. Every venue, every event, every public space potentially captures your likeness. Massive Attack simply made the invisible visible—and deeply uncomfortable. The question now isn’t whether this was art or privacy violation, but whether you’re ready to confront how normalized surveillance has become in your daily life.
This is why I no longer go out in public.
I dont go out because outside costs $250 a day.
Good. People don’t understand implications until it happens to them. Suddenly they don’t like this security features anymore because it became personal.
We need more people to experience that discomfort
It wasn’t live. They use the same footage at every concert.
This disturbs me in the best way. I love/hate it.
I wonder how long they can run this before their backend database vendor cuts them off with some flimsy pretext because this kind of thing is bad for business.
No backend database needed for what they did. It was just highlighting where the faces are in a shot of the crowd, same as modern smartphone cameras do, but with a surveillance-type UI around it.
Nice, face recognition surveillance for sure is because to protect our childrens.
It’s crazy that suicide among youth has gone up in the past 20 years. Whatever they’re doing to “protect the children” they need to stop.
Who the hell can afford children ?
Some people on islands can afford many
That was one god awful website. Holy shit. Why would anybody willingly visit that site. Wtf
It’s ok-ish?
I got a video that started playing which only had an arrow to expand but no x to close. It kept following while scrolling.
Not sure why my ad blocker didn’t block it.
Edit: after staying on the page for about a minute it just auto showed up
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It takes a (short while to show ). I also have uBlock origin in my phone ( with fennec ) and it did show for me for some reason
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Oh hang on. My ad blocker was disabled. I turned it off to test something because my browser kept hanging when surfing the web on my phone.
It is related to ublock origin for some reason. Because the moment I turn it off I can browse like normal.
Case solved why I’m getting it :)
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Pretty cool… But anyone else get major AI vibes from the way this article is written?
Why even become a journalist anymore if you’re just going to be putting prompts into a black box and copy/pasting the output?
“The Consent Question Nobody Asked”
Yeah, that tastes like AI this turn of phrase
To be clear, the system picked out faces in the crowd, in the “yes, this is a face” sense. They were labeled in what appears to be random terms like positive, kind, nostalgic, bee keeper, gif animator, extreme ironer. No personal identification.
extreme ironer
I did come across that hobby when I was trying to list examples of productive sports. Yeah, it’s a thing.
