It wasn't live. They use the same footage at every concert.

If you live in a city (not only) anywhere, you are on at least 5-10 security cams when you leave your home on the way to work or the store, more counting those in your workplace and the store. Unknown how much are with face recognition soft. Think of it, you are tagget.

Worst knowing that a lot of live cams are even with public access and even streaming on YouTube.

• https://www.earthcam.com/
• https://www.skylinewebcams.com/es/webcam.html
• https://worldcams.tv/
• https://webcamera24.com/
• https://www.whatsupcams.com/en/
• https://www.webcamtaxi.com/en/
• ....etc.

Good. People don't understand implications until it happens to them. Suddenly they don't like this security features anymore because it became personal.

We need more people to experience that discomfort

Nice, face recognition surveillance for sure is because to protect our childrens.

Pretty cool... But anyone else get major AI vibes from the way this article is written?

Why even become a journalist anymore if you're just going to be putting prompts into a black box and copy/pasting the output?

If this disturbs you, then good. That was the point.

These guys are amazing. Of all the shows I saw at Roseland NYC, theirs in 96 was the absolute best.

The only people offended by this are the ones who dont yet understand that this is happening constantly all over the place without your consent already.

To be clear, the system picked out faces in the crowd, in the "yes, this is a face" sense. They were labeled in what appears to be random terms like positive, kind, nostalgic, bee keeper, gif animator, extreme ironer. No personal identification.

People getting mad at massive attack are missing the point completely

Social media erupted with bewildered reactions from attendees. Some praised the band for forcing a conversation about surveillance that most people avoid, while others expressed discomfort with the unexpected data capture.

Unlike typical concert technology that enhances your experience, this facial recognition system explicitly confronted attendees with the reality of data capture. The band made visible what usually happens invisibly—your face being recorded, analyzed, and potentially stored by systems you never explicitly agreed to interact with.

The audience split predictably along ideological lines. Privacy advocates called it a boundary violation disguised as art. Others viewed it as necessary shock therapy for our sleepwalking acceptance of facial recognition in everyday spaces. Both reactions prove the intervention achieved its disruptive goal.

Your relationship with facial recognition technology just got more complicated. Every venue, every event, every public space potentially captures your likeness. Massive Attack simply made the invisible visible—and deeply uncomfortable. The question now isn’t whether this was art or privacy violation, but whether you’re ready to confront how normalized surveillance has become in your daily life.

Good. A little bit of shock treatment is just what the doctor ordered.

Now consider this to coldplay concert where they urged the crowd to send love to Charlie Kirk's family lol.

Welcome to The Truman Show.

https://x.com/IpswichPolice/status/1892910824517177743

I do trust Massiva Attack more than this violent gang of thugs

This disturbs me in the best way. I love/hate it.

I wonder how long they can run this before their backend database vendor cuts them off with some flimsy pretext because this kind of thing is bad for business.