Re:Chinese police don high-tech glasses to nab suspects
by RepressedEmu on Thursday February 08, 2018 @10:12AM
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Except that not everyone has a license plate but everyone has a face. So its a much bigger intrusion.
Re:Chinese police don high-tech glasses to nab suspects
by dsfyu404ed on Thursday February 08, 2018 @04:25PM
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License plates are much more unique than faces and they do not change over time and you can't put a hat and sunglasses on them. What they lose in quantity they make up in quality. They are a much bigger intrusion but for a large majority of the population instead of literally everyone. The difference isn't very meaningful from a surveillance POV since you can build shadow profiles.
Two can play at the "I don't care about your problems because they don't affect me" game.
Some people live in rural areas with little to no government infrastructure that can be used for dragnet surveillance. They don't have to care about the government tracking faces with the subway security cameras.
That's a dumb game to play. Dragnet surveillance is bad in all forms.
The only difference is facial recognition vs numbers and letters.
Querying for more invasive information such as medical history, sexual orientation, online accounts, "undesirable people" they are acquainted with) is a simple as a DB connection string and a select statement.