How to Defeat Facial Recognition: What Actually Works in 2025 by State of Surveillance

• Note - these steps and resources cannot guarantee your anonymity

• Stay informed by researching whether wearing masks at protests is legal in your city/county/state.

• Read about the Mobile Fortify app (website) which is being used by immigration agents to scan faces and fingerprints by The Free Thought Project

Where is your photo/image being gathered or collected?

• Closed-circuit television (e.g., stores)

• Traffic cameras

• Airports cameras/face scanners

• Social media

• Media

• DMV

• Getting an identification card

• Mugshots

• Job applications

• Applying for a passport or visa

• Enrolling in TSA's Pre-Check Program

• Police photos

• Drone footage

Where might your image/photo might be stored? Examples:

• Local enforcement databases

  • i.e., CJLEADS​ in North Carolina

• FBI’s Next Generation Identification database

• National Crime Information Center (NCIC)

  • Maintained by the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division​

  • Used by over 100,000 criminal justice and law enforcement agencies

• DMV database

• U.S. Department of State Passport and Visa photo database

• Homeland Security IDEN/HART database

• idiCORE

• CARFAX

• CLEAR by Thomson Reuters

• LinX (Law Enforcement Information Exchange)

• Police2Police by Central Square Technologies

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Who is selling facial recognition software to law enforcement?

• Clearview AI (read more by SASSI)

• Who else is surveilling you?

Read more about facial recognition technology by EFF