Whether it passes or not, civilians need to start using the infrared on their phone cameras to see through face coverings and profile law enforcement identities during execution of illegal orders anyway.
I cannot believe there is not a widely used FOSS app for this when the hardware is in your pocket already and the research is prevalent for how to do this.
You know, I was thinking the other day about how it's such a shame that ICE and other federal agents are permitted to wear face coverings so they can act anonymously and follow even the most blatantly illegal orders without the slightest fear of public outrage being directed at them personally.
It's just so cowardly to collect a pay check for something you're so ashamed of doing that you have to cover your face. It's like getting paid to march with the KKK.
Anyway, everybody is carrying an infrared camera that can see through face coverings and pretty reliably identify all of the cowards, even when they're wearing their masks or through things like glasses, perhaps including face shields.
We just haven't started using our phones to do this because the need has not been great enough. I'm sure it would give them pause to be profiled beating people in California and then linked to their true identity and home address back in their hometown later.
I am no expert in this, but I know it's been studied pretty extensively.
Here is what I mean... With low end smartphones: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-71629-7_50
General infrared identification techniques: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227232627_Infrared_Identification_of_Faces_and_Body_Parts
During one of the mass exodus events from Reddit to Lemmy, a lot of people started using these tools they would install to automatically scrub and obfuscate their Reddit comments and posts history. Often these tools would replace posts with random letters and even nonsense links because there was suspicion that outright deleted posts could be detected and then programmatically restored if Reddit really wanted to get that user content back.
I suspect these tools probably exist for Lemmy as well and you are seeing users with long comment histories use them because those also happen to be the users who have a lot of previous content to cover up/obfuscate to maintain/ensure their own privacy.
Inject it with bleach! That'll do the trick.
FatTony Search engine is it down or just me
With low end smartphones: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-71629-7_50
General infrared identification techniques: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227232627_Infrared_Identification_of_Faces_and_Body_Parts
We just apply these two areas of research above in a mobile app. I'd start with Android so it can go onto jailbroken 3rd party operating systems without the fear of getting banned by Apple. Then move on the iPhone after that.