Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Critics See Surveillance Risk

Re:Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Critics See S... by confounded on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @03:24PM (#17128683)

> Everyone is a criminal. You commit multiple crimes a day if you're like most people.

More importantly, pretty much everyone has a driver’s license or other government issued ID, and in most states, the police have access to your mugshot from that.

The criminality can be figured out later. The problem is real time surveillance of the entire population.

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Re:Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Critics See S... by nighthawk1 on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @08:41PM (#17130657)

As in ww2 Germany they said: give me the man and I’ll give you the crime.

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Re:Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Critics See S... by sean2 on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @09:32PM (#17130880)

"Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime."

To be pedantic, it was Lavrentiy Beria[1] who is credited with that statement[2]; So it was a WW2 Russian Sentiment. Though Stalin-ism is also an example of a surveillance state government that was known for being unpleasant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria [2] http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1137804

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Re:Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Critics See S... by nighthawk1 on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @12:22PM (#17135386)

Thanks, learned something new today.

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