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Gait Recognition Technology (www.city-journal.org)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Gait biometric systems capture step patterns using video images and then convert the collated data into a mathematical equation. Gait as a biometric measure can be influenced by several factors, including footwear, terrain, fatigue, and injury.

...Love this sub, I don't have hardcore needs in terms of privacy, but wanted to know for people that enjoy a covid mask, their opinion on Gait Rec. Technologies, and does any one have any intel in throwing these systems off, whether or not that is impossible?

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (3 children)

You can very easily fool the machine into recognizing John Cleese.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

haha curious if this would work although in that article i linked to :

"Your gait is like a fingerprint, unique and impossible to falsify."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

And yet it says it can be impacted by footwear

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

I’m sure the companies selling the software want people to think that. Automatic Fingerprint ID has enough false positives, I can’t imagine this wouldn’t be worse.