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Seems like the Nazis managed to do the Concentration Camps thing without facial recognition software.

• pavel_lishin 2y ago
  But they did have tremendous data processing abilities for their time!
  • simplicio 2y ago
    I don't think keeping the data processing abilities of modern gov'ts below that of 1930's Germany is really a plausible plan for avoiding concentration camps.
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  • Wicher 2y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
• pessimizer 2y ago
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  • mixmastamyk 2y ago
    But surely it couldn’t happen in America, right? Guess what, census data was used to facilitate Japanese internment.
• whycome 2y ago
  America and Canada used facial recognition for their ww2 concentration camps. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Canadians https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Canad...
• dredmorbius 2y ago
  The Nazis utilised the best information-management tools of the time, including IBM computers (fully supported by IBM throughout the war) and punch cards (as another commenter notes: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42359352 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42359352>). Those tattoos worn by concentration camp survivors were IBM-assigned identifiers. Nazis also used census and other civil data sources. Deliberate destruction of such records in the Netherlands is one of the legacies of WWII: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_the_Netherlands#Registration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_the_Netherlan...> This and other legacies of 20th-century genocide are chief reasons why European attitudes toward rampant data collection and exchange are far harsher than in the United States. Though I'd argue still not nearly harsh enough.