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Re:Chinese police use facial recognition tech to arrest susp... by wiz21c on Friday April 13, 2018 @08:53AM (#16829480)
His methods are efficient under the constraint of "not resorting to mass surveillance". I'd feel better if that constraint continued to exist.
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Re:Chinese police use facial recognition tech to arrest susp... by pythonaut_16 on Friday April 13, 2018 @09:43AM (#16829878)
I think that's the point they're trying to make.

It's already easy to track someone down but it requires manpower, which limits the scope of tracking and requires the tracker to have a real motivation.

What's scary about mass surveillance is tracking of anyone and everyone for any reason at any time with very little required effort.

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