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Re:Chinese police use facial recognition tech to arrest susp... by coldtea on Friday April 13, 2018 @08:30AM (#16829321)
There does exist such thing as "crime", even in China (imagine that). It's not all angelic citizens and among them, some angelic dissidents.
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Re:Chinese police use facial recognition tech to arrest susp... by logfromblammo on Friday April 13, 2018 @09:46AM (#16829906)
The surveillance AI knows nothing of the difference between malum in se (crime!) and malum prohibitum ("crime"). The pamphleteer protesting local corruption and the strongarm robber are caught in the same trap.
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Re:Chinese police use facial recognition tech to arrest susp... by root_axis on Friday April 13, 2018 @10:24AM (#16830259)
> The surveillance AI knows nothing of the difference between malum in se (crime!) and malum prohibitum ("crime")

And for the humans in charge of the AI there is no such distinction so the AI is working as intended.

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