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>France says the ID system won’t be used to keep tabs on residents. Unlike in China and Singapore, the country won’t be integrating the facial recognition biome
by dsfyu404ed 7y ago
>France says the ID system won’t be used to keep tabs on residents. Unlike in China and Singapore, the country won’t be integrating the facial recognition biometric into citizens’ identity databases
That's what they all say but once the systems exists the temptation is there to use it and each successive bunch of authoritarians will use it a little bit more. They don't even need to be more than a small minority of government to do it so long as they do it in small incremental steps (integrating it with more and more government functions).
- nandipmakwana 7y ago> That's what they all say but once the systems exists the temptation is there to use it and each successive bunch of authoritarians will use it a little bit more. Couldn't agree more. Just look at the Aadhaar system of India. As an Indian we are witnessing exact what you just said. It was created to stop leakage in Public Distribution System. But over the years it is made (not literally but still)mandatory for everywhere. If one google, they will find plenty of news where resident were denied access to basic services such as school/college admission, Hospital etc.
- black_puppydog 7y agoDon't see why this is getting downvoted. The list of examples is just too long. Germany recently changed their laws to allow easier access to registered information. It went from "we'll only use it for those pedo-bio-nuclear-terrorism cases that we keep telling you about" to "well but also for organized crime" to now supposedly "well or copyright infringement or petty theft".
- conanbatt 7y agoIf it were true, they could release the system while making it illegal to be used in ANY kind of legal proceding ANY time now and in the future.