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How is having cameras on every street corner that identify you based on your face and height and weight and gait and the clothes you're wearing and anything you
by caconym_ 9mo ago
How is having cameras on every street corner that identify you based on your face and height and weight and gait and the clothes you're wearing and anything you're carrying, or the car you're driving by its license plate and make and model and color and tires/rims and any visible damage, accessories, etcetera, and taking all these data points and loading them into a database that cross-correlates them with your credit bureau data and bank records and purchase history and social media and other online activity and literally every single other scrap of available data everywhere, and builds a map of everything about you and everywhere you ever go and everything you do and have ever done, makes it trivially queryable by any law enforcement officer in the country with or without a valid reason, retains it all in perpetuity, and does all this for every single person in the country without consent or a warrant issued by a judge, different from a police department assigning an officer to tail you if you are suspected of being involved in a crime?
We are going to be in some serious fucking trouble if we can't tackle these issues of scale implied by modern information technology without resorting to disingenuous (or simply naive) appeals to these absurd equivalences as justification for each new insane escalation.