Posted on 04/15/2022 10:22:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
Ukrainian officials have run more than 8,600 facial recognition searches on dead or captured Russian soldiers in the 50 days since Moscow’s invasion began, using the scans to identify bodies and contact hundreds of their families in what may be one of the most gruesome applications of the technology to date.
The country’s IT Army, a volunteer force of hackers and activists that takes its direction from the Ukrainian government, says it has used those identifications to inform the families of the deaths of 582 Russians, including by sending them photos of the abandoned corpses.
The Ukrainians champion the use of face-scanning software from the U.S. tech firm Clearview AI as a brutal but effective way to stir up dissent inside Russia, discourage other fighters and hasten an end to a devastating war.
But some military and technology analysts worry that the strategy could backfire, inflaming anger over a shock campaign directed at mothers who may be thousands of miles from the drivers of the Kremlin’s war machine.
The West’s solidarity with Ukraine makes it tempting to support such a radical act designed to capitalize on family grief, said Stephanie Hare, a surveillance researcher in London. But contacting soldiers’ parents, she said, is “classic psychological warfare” and could set a dangerous new standard for future conflicts.
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Warfare in the 21st century...
Not our circus.
Not our monkeys.
It depends, they have to provide proof but if they are consoling it could be a good service. If the pair this with suggestions for action then it will blow up
Should be doing that with POW’s. Make the moms walk to retrieve them and then move onward to another country.
How to win friends and influence people.
They have had POWs call their moms, actually.
I’m not sure getting into a cruelty contest with the Russians is the way to go.
They seem to be suggesting this is cruel? And maybe that is the intention.
But if my son were dead I would rather know then not know.
Except the Russians are treating the POWs and enemy dead decently.
Because every Russian face is in a facial rec database. Thanks Washington Post. 😆
They were all Soviets a few decades ago.
Ukrainians and Russians are two peas in a pod.
Both equally barbaric.
You’re right. That makes this a civil war. No wonder Americans don’t care.
“could set a dangerous new standard for future conflicts.”
IOW, they have no moral qualms about it, but admitting that might allow it to be used against them.
The Sullivinski brothers...
The problem with pushing the Russians around is that at the end of the day they believe in going old school and blowing up half the world with low tech explosives. Low accuracy doesn’t matter when the whole city gets blown up.
That’s actually a very clever thing to do. It helps demoralize the folks back home.
While, I agree - I’d rather know. Their intention is not to be considerate. And I’m sure the way they inform is rather callous.
The ukranian govt are POS. The enemy of our enemy is not our friend.
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