'Live facial recognition is a dystopian mass surveillance technology which turns us all into walking ID cards,' one privacy group warned
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/3829409
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The good news: Police are wearing body cams that they can’t turn off.
The bad news: It’s because the cameras are using constant facial recognition to tag everyone.
Yo, Britonians: Shits on fire. Do something.
IMO this is pretty shortsighted and going to affect all the wrong people, skimasks and balaclavas are a thing!
Easy enough fix for the government, just make them illegal.
And so is a IR flashlight!
Or dazzle makeup.
Or just an N95 mask
Socially acceptable, healthy, and private, win win win
Bring back balaclavas.
Dark business. Why are the Brits so happy to just sit back and let this happen.
am british. its infuriating. a mass of the uninformed voting against the self interest for over a decade at this point.
“Torys fucking the country? Better vote for them again!”
The recent article about kids getting arrested for words and it’s positive reception should give you a hint.
They still have their monarchy
I’ve found its very common for Europeans to be under the dillusion that the govt is their friend, and has their best intentions in mind…
Australia too. I’ll never understand it, and I live here.