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Articles and the comments they spawn are a bit weird, honestly. Let's talk about face recognition tech in Russia, and how creepy it makes them. Meanwhile it's
by nx11x 10y ago
Articles and the comments they spawn are a bit weird, honestly. Let's talk about face recognition tech in Russia, and how creepy it makes them.
Meanwhile it's not creepy at all that "Half of American Adults Are in Police Facial-Recognition Databases":
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/10/half-of-american-adults-are-in-police-facial-recognition-databases/504560/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/10/half-o...
- drzaiusapelord 10y agoThere's an obvious difference between law enforcement having these powers (and we can assume Russian law enforcement does too) and Joe Schmoe having these powers. As Russians have already said in this thread, the main use of this is blackmail and cyberbullying. It certainly is an abused feature. I think the typical "whataboutism" here is distracting from the main issue.