Lmao
because [the moratorium] only applied to police
Fuck bezos and fuck amazon
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
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I bet that this will be used for 24/7 tracking to create a social credit system akin to China's.
Except you will have no idea what it is. You'll just be automatically declined for loans, or your health or car insurance is higher, or the police show up to your door with a search warrant to find anything they can because you're not being a good citizen.
You say that like it's not happening now, but it is.
Therefore they will say "you're just being too rebellious" and then outline a million page script PDF saying exactly how the world should go divided by street.
Psychopass (anime)
Love its song. Maybe sometime I'll actually watch it.
New Orleans did a pilot with allowing facial recognition for major felonies and it just didn’t work at all. Of the 15 requests, 9 failed to make a match and of the 6 that did return a “match,” 3 were the wrong person.
That’s a small sample size — most cities don’t release data — but it explains why cities that happily use facial recognition software don’t see reductions in crime or cleared cases. It’s just a complete waste of money and the investigators’ time. Facial recognition tech can (usually) identify friends in photos but criminals aren’t posing for fancy modern phone cameras in decent lighting. They’re using security cam stills and anyone committing a major felony probably has their face at least partially covered.
It’s like that software that’s supposed to identify gunshots but has so many false positives, police stop even bothering to follow-up after awhile. Maybe not as stupid as the NYPD buying robots but still a huge waste of resources.
Not to mention the primarily black population of Louisiana who are disproportionately targeted for crimes will be the greatest number of false positives .
Due to the common knowledge the facial recognition is severely lacking when it comes to successfully identifying black populations due to darker tones being harder to differentiate.
This would take an existing problem and magnify it by creating a larger, more automated police state.
Not to mention data privacy/security, which the LA DMV just got their data hacked in the last two years...
Seriously a public safety violation all-around.
I love humanity. Further enmeshing private, vicious capital with the dubious methods used by law enforcement to clear cases and put up numbers while we all suffer.
👍CAPITALISM👍