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Quantity has a quality all its own, as they say. If you live in a town and there’s a couple security guards or even cops that can recognize you, that’s pretty
by CPLX 8y ago
Quantity has a quality all its own, as they say.
If you live in a town and there’s a couple security guards or even cops that can recognize you, that’s pretty normal.
If there were thousands of private security guards as well as cops hired by the government stationed all around you, in every part of your life, gazing at you from every corner, and they had all been trained to recognize you, and every time you walked by one they whipped out a notepad and took detailed notes on what you were doing, you’d freak the fuck out, justifiably.
- bayesian_horse 8y agoAnd you'd justifiably tell them to not do it... And if you are not able to stop them from doing that, may I suggest you have a bigger problem with your government or the security guards than being tracked by them? Again: Tracking personal data is regulateable, facial recognition technology is not. And the mere act of checking the identity of a person for legitimate access control purposes is no unreasonable infringement on privacy.
- justwalt 8y agoWouldn’t agencies like the NSA use it regardless of what regulations say? Wouldn’t policy be shaped by what large corporations saw as valuable? I think that big problem already exists to a degree, and it’s only a matter of time before this sort of thing gets uncomfortably out of hand.