Belarus Oppositon Groups Are Using Software That Identifies Police Officers Wearing Masks

RIght now its getting serious: this is why you dont mess with #Belarus IT specialists

they have developed software that allows them to recognise OMON officers even if they are wearing a balaclava

video shows it in action pic.twitter.com/hkZJgvVbC4

— BenAris (@bneeditor) September 24, 2020

BNE Intelligence: Belarus IT specialists develop software to identify OMON officers wearing masks

IT specialists based in Los Angeles have developed software that allows them to identify police and OMON riot police officers even if they are wearing a mask. The information, including their names, address and telephone numbers, is then added to growing blacklists published online that are documenting abuses committed by the security forces during demonstrations against Belarus' self-appointed President Alexander Lukashenko.

“IT country rocks! Belarusian IT specialist from Los Angeles uses artificial intelligence to deanonymize the punishers and reveal their real faces hidden under balaclavas,” Franak Viacorka, a local journalist said on Twitter.

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WNU Editor: Many of these officers live very discreet and private lives. To be exposed in this manner must be very unsettling to some of them.