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And now I’ll never go to a game again. Fuck’em.
The bigger issue is not enough people care for it to make a difference.
Are they implying the police are accountable for anything?
Yes… Said a man tapping on the gun and the badge…
You got something you gonna do about it?
The AP article for those that don’t want to listen: https://apnews.com/article/raiders-nfl-vegas-police-allegiant-stadium-5239b9962c23a6512fa2f694add9b9ea
The highlight for me is this:
It’s worth noting they’re only doing this for workers, not for attendees. The police would presumably by fine with it if it were just attendees and not workers, because it wouldn’t include them.
The old adage ‘why do you care if you’ve got nothing to hide?’ comes to mind
Ok, good. I thought I was the only one who saw this connection. It’s not that the police are against facial recog or that they don’t want the NFL or anyone else to use it, it’s that they’re aware of the privacy degradation it causes, and don’t want themselves (the police workers of the event) subjected to it. It’s fine if we, the attendees, are subjected to it, just not them. Oh, what a world.
Yup, cause, once again, fuck the people.
They forget that they are also the people, and all they’re doing is helping the corpos gain more power (make no mistake, the governments are a front for the corpos).
Front/right arm/all of one.
I mean we had the Dutch East Indies Corp doing it’s thing 300 years ago. It’s not really new, and it’s frustrating people don’t see it.
Yeah but they’re “special people,” not subject to the same rules as the peons, even though they’d be tossed aside for private security should shit go down. God dammit lol
“special people” until they’re not haha
Every state wants a monopoly on violence. The more powerful the state, the less there are entities that could opress you except the state itself. So it’s not unexpected that the cops would object to have a “competitor” with facial recognition technology
Dear cops: Oh now we worry about unchecked power and lack of oversight in the deployment of surveillance technology? Please. May as well join the surveillance dystopia with the rest of us, you helped usher it in. Tell me again about your robot dogs and your Stingray devices why don’t you.
Don’t forget their fucking tanks. Smh.
The company is unaccountable‽
That’s some projection.
Ironic that cops love facial recognition when it’s not pointed at them, but all of a sudden it’s an issue when they’re subject to it.
Hypocritical for sure.
Not really unexpected, so not ironic.
Nice interrobang!