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Re:Amazon Employee: We Shouldn’t Sell Facial Recognition Tec... by hueving on Thursday October 18, 2018 @04:32AM (#18246855)
>Until you are a victim of a crime and facial recognition helps to find the perpetrator and you suddenly change your mind.

Appeal to fear. Why is it you think that justification doesn't work for illegal search and seizure?

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Re:Amazon Employee: We Shouldn’t Sell Facial Recognition Tec... by sureaboutthis on Thursday October 18, 2018 @05:33AM (#18247048)
In the same way, not wanting to let the police have this technology due to concern of surveillance is appealing to fear.

People forget that, in the USA at least, the police investigate and pursue crimes that have already been committed. They do NOT pursue crimes that have not happened and do NOT scan for people who have not committed a crime. As you all should know, license plate scanners, for example, are looking for specific plates of people who have already committed crimes.

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