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Re:Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Critics See S... by dogecoinbase on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @01:38PM (#17127814)
This was the purported intention of cellphone location tracking data. Instead it has been sold to marketers and data aggregators, and so poorly secured that likely for over a year it's been possible to get location data via phone number as a service.

Companies and governments have demonstrated that they are not sufficiently responsible to have these databases. HIPAA-like laws and severe criminal penalties would be a start.

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Re:Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Critics See S... by candiodari on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @01:47PM (#17127909)
Well, we have multiple court cases to prove that one of the applications of the police's and CIA's power to monitor phone conversations is checking if your (not-quite) girlfriend is "cheating" on you and attacking, as a law enforcement officer anyone she calls.

But without more government, there can't be more handouts, so ... ok ?

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