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Re:Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Critics See S... by StanislavPetrov on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @02:38PM (#17128324)
Many prisons have blanket surveillance systems. I suggest you ask the prisoners how beneficial they find it, and extrapolate.
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Re:Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Critics See S... by fixermark on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @02:40PM (#17128350)
"Prison has X, therefore X is bad" isn't a very compelling argument.
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Re:Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Critics See S... by StanislavPetrov on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @02:54PM (#17128463)
Its exactly analagous. The government agencies want to implement this technology for the same reasons they do it in prisons - not for your benefit.
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Re:Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Critics See S... by godelski on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @05:03PM (#17129400)
It isn't analogous because someone walking freely on the street has not been convicted of a crime.
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Re:Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Critics See S... by Stephen304 on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @02:50PM (#17128436)
Extrapolating is not always useful... See relevant xkcd: https://www.xkcd.com/605/
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