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"Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited": https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/us/

"Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited": https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/us/angela-lipps-ai-facial-recognition https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/us/angela-lipps-ai-facial-rec...

jamiequint 7mo ago
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- tadfisher 7mo ago
  Your question was: > In what way do cameras make life harder for regular people? I provided an example. Are you only accepting peer-reviewed studies?
  - jamiequint 7mo ago
    Single example is worthless. Is there a pattern of this happening far more often? Overall, do fewer people get incorrectly arrested or detained as a result of this technology, or more.
    - turtlesdown11 7mo ago
      so where are your data sources arguing these are helping?
    - text0404 7mo ago
      Such great questions. Maybe we should answer them before building a massive, privately-owned, nationwide surveillance apparatus with taxpayer money.
      - sigbottle 7mo ago
        No, we should build the massive, privately-owned, nationwide surveillance apparatus with taxpayer money! It's for science, after all! We have no data on whether or not cameras covering every square inch of space, hooked up to a centralized surveillance database is actually good for society. We need to conduct this methodologically and scientifically. We'll be able to come to an objective conclusion with enough testing!
      - Manuel_D 7mo ago
        https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2026/03/05/new-analysis-rtcc-triples-the-odds-that-a-victim-receives-justice/ https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2026/03/05/new-analysis-rtcc-... Seattle apparently tripled likelihood of perpetrators being identified.
        text0404 7mo ago
        That PR article doesn't answer the questions, and raises more: - Why didn't SPD commission an independent study? - What kinds of crimes were studied? Is this catching jaywalkers or homicides? - Only mentions arrests. What about convictions? How are victims receiving justice? - Where's the data and the reproducible methodology? - How many people were tracked who didn't commit any crime at all? There's so much wrong with that article that it's hard to come to any verifiable conclusions about the efficacy of the program. And again, doesn't answer any of the original questions.
- xracy 7mo ago
  You didn't ask for data... You asked: "In what way do cameras make life harder for regular people?" That requires a specific example, which you were provided with. This reads to me as a pithy response that doesn't want to wrestle with the ways this can be misused.
  - jamiequint 7mo ago
    By this same argument ANY police makes life hard for regular people because they sometimes fuck up, so let's just get rid of police too. What's the worst that could happen.
    - text0404 7mo ago
      The general sentiment in the thread is that this is too powerful a technology in the hands of unqualified law enforcement. In the same way that I don't trust federal law enforcement in the post-Snowden era, I don't trust local law enforcement with mass surveillance tools.
    - loeg 7mo ago
      https://x.com/jeffmklein/status/1430876370175987712 https://x.com/jeffmklein/status/1430876370175987712
      - tadfisher 7mo ago
        Luckily we don't have to use the poor as a crutch for this argument. Public camera networks capture everyone sleeping on the sidewalk, regardless of their income level.
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jamiequint 7mo ago

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tadfisher 7mo ago
Your question was: > In what way do cameras make life harder for regular people? I provided an example. Are you only accepting peer-reviewed studies?
- jamiequint 7mo ago
  Single example is worthless. Is there a pattern of this happening far more often? Overall, do fewer people get incorrectly arrested or detained as a result of this technology, or more.
  - turtlesdown11 7mo ago
    so where are your data sources arguing these are helping?
  - text0404 7mo ago
    Such great questions. Maybe we should answer them before building a massive, privately-owned, nationwide surveillance apparatus with taxpayer money.
    - sigbottle 7mo ago
      No, we should build the massive, privately-owned, nationwide surveillance apparatus with taxpayer money! It's for science, after all! We have no data on whether or not cameras covering every square inch of space, hooked up to a centralized surveillance database is actually good for society. We need to conduct this methodologically and scientifically. We'll be able to come to an objective conclusion with enough testing!
    - Manuel_D 7mo ago
      https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2026/03/05/new-analysis-rtcc-triples-the-odds-that-a-victim-receives-justice/ https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2026/03/05/new-analysis-rtcc-... Seattle apparently tripled likelihood of perpetrators being identified.
      - text0404 7mo ago
        That PR article doesn't answer the questions, and raises more: - Why didn't SPD commission an independent study? - What kinds of crimes were studied? Is this catching jaywalkers or homicides? - Only mentions arrests. What about convictions? How are victims receiving justice? - Where's the data and the reproducible methodology? - How many people were tracked who didn't commit any crime at all? There's so much wrong with that article that it's hard to come to any verifiable conclusions about the efficacy of the program. And again, doesn't answer any of the original questions.
xracy 7mo ago
You didn't ask for data... You asked: "In what way do cameras make life harder for regular people?" That requires a specific example, which you were provided with. This reads to me as a pithy response that doesn't want to wrestle with the ways this can be misused.
- jamiequint 7mo ago
  By this same argument ANY police makes life hard for regular people because they sometimes fuck up, so let's just get rid of police too. What's the worst that could happen.
  - text0404 7mo ago
    The general sentiment in the thread is that this is too powerful a technology in the hands of unqualified law enforcement. In the same way that I don't trust federal law enforcement in the post-Snowden era, I don't trust local law enforcement with mass surveillance tools.
  - loeg 7mo ago
    https://x.com/jeffmklein/status/1430876370175987712 https://x.com/jeffmklein/status/1430876370175987712
    - tadfisher 7mo ago
      Luckily we don't have to use the poor as a crutch for this argument. Public camera networks capture everyone sleeping on the sidewalk, regardless of their income level.
- deleted 7mo ago
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