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>Nobody's gonna care until it hits them personally or has the potential to do so imminently. It's for this reason that I really, really want the US to implemen
by Loughla 7y ago
>Nobody's gonna care until it hits them personally or has the potential to do so imminently.
It's for this reason that I really, really want the US to implement some kind of formal, stated facial recognition across the board. I honestly don't think we'll see any mass movement on privacy issues from regular folks until something that big happens.
- mdorazio 7y agoI think you’re overestimating what the public response to such an event would be. The vast majority of the public doesn’t care if their privacy is utterly violated by the government as long as there’s some flimsy justification for it catching bad guys or saving children.
- bilbo0s 7y agoJust, Devil's Advocate - but what happens if you allow such a program to go forward, and no one outside the usual suspects objects? How would you reign it back in? I believe it would be best not to allow such a program in the first place, because counting on the population to be opposed to it is, well, let's just label it "unwise".
- swader999 7y agoNaive to think our entire online and physical location data isn't already indexed by name, phone, email ids. Snowden said as much. The accelerometers on your phone already give gait.