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I prey we can get facial recognition to the public and we can start publicly tracking politicians and they can own their political decision anywhere they go. Ha

by 14 8y ago

I prey we can get facial recognition to the public and we can start publicly tracking politicians and they can own their political decision anywhere they go. Have a CEO that wears fur coats, well facial recognition now knows he eats at starbucks every friday lets go there then and protest. A corrupt politician, oh facial recognition detects them at a conference lets go interrupt it. There will be no hiding in the future and I truly hope this applies to the elite as well. They have more to lose with being tracked then I do.

yaps8 8y ago
This will not happen. Mind you, they have the right to privacy!
philpem 8y ago
"This morning the Political Privacy Act was rushed through. MPs are now exempt from all face-recognition systems. The vote was unanimous..."
- iliketosleep 8y ago
  At first I thought this comment was just funny, then I had the thought that it's actually plausible, then it hit me that it's not only plausible but inevitable.
  - dwyerm 8y ago
    Not just inevitable, but it already happened. In 1992 the US Government banned people from receiving radio in certain 800MHz bands, because someone listened in on a politicians analog cell phone call. I'll let RadioReference say it: "The motivation for this amendment had to do with an analog AMPS cellular telephone call into a political conference call made from Florida by now-incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner in which there was discussion of the ethics charges against then-speaker Newt Gingrich; a recording was made of the call and given to a Democratic Florida politician and whackiness ensued." The AMPS systems that were impacted have been shut down for more than a decade, but you still can't purchase a radio receiver without that 'Cellular Blocking' enabled. [1] https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Cell_blocked https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Cell_blocked
  - philpem 8y ago
    Politicians have something of a track record of exempting themselves from "security" laws...
simion314 8y ago
Do you think that anyone could run SQL queries on that database? Only government people will have access to it, the politicians can add a new law to exclude themselves from the database searches.
- candiodari 8y ago
  No, but it doesn't matter: trivial and quick to make your own database, and with cellphone cams getting better and better, it'll be more and more accurate and good luck detecting someone doing this.
  - simion314 8y ago
    I do not understand how citizens can benefit by the government installing cameras and face recognition software? Can you explain in more detail what do you mean? I hope you do not suggest citizens install also cameras and put the videos on the web, then we have private companies and citizens tracking us not only the government. And I assume when a minister receives a bribe he will not be meeting with the person in a public place.

by 14 8y ago

yaps8 8y ago

This will not happen. Mind you, they have the right to privacy!

philpem 8y ago

"This morning the Political Privacy Act was rushed through. MPs are now exempt from all face-recognition systems. The vote was unanimous..."

iliketosleep 8y ago
At first I thought this comment was just funny, then I had the thought that it's actually plausible, then it hit me that it's not only plausible but inevitable.
- dwyerm 8y ago
  Not just inevitable, but it already happened. In 1992 the US Government banned people from receiving radio in certain 800MHz bands, because someone listened in on a politicians analog cell phone call. I'll let RadioReference say it: "The motivation for this amendment had to do with an analog AMPS cellular telephone call into a political conference call made from Florida by now-incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner in which there was discussion of the ethics charges against then-speaker Newt Gingrich; a recording was made of the call and given to a Democratic Florida politician and whackiness ensued." The AMPS systems that were impacted have been shut down for more than a decade, but you still can't purchase a radio receiver without that 'Cellular Blocking' enabled. [1] https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Cell_blocked https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Cell_blocked
- philpem 8y ago
  Politicians have something of a track record of exempting themselves from "security" laws...

simion314 8y ago

Do you think that anyone could run SQL queries on that database? Only government people will have access to it, the politicians can add a new law to exclude themselves from the database searches.

candiodari 8y ago
No, but it doesn't matter: trivial and quick to make your own database, and with cellphone cams getting better and better, it'll be more and more accurate and good luck detecting someone doing this.
- simion314 8y ago
  I do not understand how citizens can benefit by the government installing cameras and face recognition software? Can you explain in more detail what do you mean? I hope you do not suggest citizens install also cameras and put the videos on the web, then we have private companies and citizens tracking us not only the government. And I assume when a minister receives a bribe he will not be meeting with the person in a public place.