Anonymity In Protesting
Sanaii Brown and 3 OthersDeclan McEnerneyMila Fields-Zayas
Jayden Lee + Privacy: Public
ANONYMITY IN PROTESTING
Declan, Mila, Jayden and Sanaii
AUTO CREATE + AI
RACIST ROBOTS? + FACIAL RECOGNITION
RESEARCH
Facial recognition & Racial Bias
AI's Role in Society
How AI Evolves
Bias in AI
Who is Most Vulnerable to AI
What Action is being Taken
Created to automize monotonous tasks and make low level decisions
Evolved to analyze, learn, and develop by observing human work and thinking
AI is integral in many industries
potential to create more societal harm than good
Human prejudice amplified and automated with AI but presented as unbiased due to the robotic nature
Police and judicial AI programs, such as COMPAS and PredPol, have been observed to mirror human biases through use of past crime reports and data that are potentially biased - racism in racism out
AI bias in industries such as criminal justice, housing, and employment
Any communities who are already vulnerable to bias from humans (ie, BIPOC, women, LGBTQ community, etc)
America is behind in the word for federal regulation of AI
Companies that use AI are currently responsible for regulation
Many think thee US gov is unfit to regulate AI due to lack of knowledge and rapid changes in tech
HONING IN
OUR CONCEPT
OUR CONCEPT
Precedents
Vogue: "Can Makeup Be An Anti-Surveillance Tool?" (@martymoment on IG)
Colossal: Ewa Nowak's Jewelry for Anti-Surveillance
Telpo: "How does Facial Recognition Technology Work?"
Makeup designed by @martymoment on IG to avoid facial recognition during BLM protests. Tested and effective
Jewelry designed by Ewa Nowak to avoid facial recognition. Reflective materials are effective for fooling facial recognition softwares.
A diagram by Telpo showing the points on the face that are most crucial for facial recognition to identify faces. These points are the boundaries points of common human facial features
Initial Prototypes
For our initial prototypes, our goal was to make a celebrities face unrecognizable. We experimented with adobe photoshop and other image editing software to do this.
FIRST RHINO PROTOTYPE
BEFORE RHINO
AFTER RHINO
As we learned more about how to obscure a face from tech recognition, we used rhino to design our own anti surveillance makeup. This was the first design I made using my face as the model for the first obscuration designs. I used black and white for contrast and jewels to reflect light.
Rhino Final Designs
we used similar elements to make other designs on a number of other faces to gather a variety of obs
FACIAL RECOGNITION SOFTWARE IN P5
IMAGE FACIAL RECOGNITION
LIVE VIDEO FACIAL RECOGNITION
Sketches
Sketches
NEXT STEPS + GOALS FOR THE APP
Anonymity In Protesting is a facial obscuration application aiming to help protestors stay safe and anonymous so they are able to keep protesting injustices without the fear of potential legal consequences. This app looks at a person’s face and recommends different strategies for concealing their identity by adding highlights and shadows to faces, along with different shapes, hoping to confuse facial recognition software. This app is targeted towards all protesters, with a specific focus on black and indigenous protesters.
The lack of anonymity in protesting, followed by persecution after the fact, has become increasingly common since the Ferguson protests in 2014. The AiP app uses facial recognition software similar to what is used by organizations aiming to find protesters, but instead of looking to identify them, it shows personalized ways to avoid detection. This aims to create a space where protesting injustices is a protected activity.