Amazon Employee: We Shouldn’t Sell Facial Recognition Tech to Police

Re:Amazon Employee: We Shouldn’t Sell Facial Recognition Tec... by nemo846 on Thursday October 18, 2018 @06:32AM (#18247227)

> The other, Often overlooked layer is the fact that running a dystopian state is uneconomical.

How so?

Only example I can think of is China’s Social Credit system denying loans and traveling permissions to people with a low score - where said score is dependent on your compliance with the whims of the CCP; instead of being dependent on the credit worthiness of the person.

Said person won’t be able to grow his/her business as effectively, reducing his/her company’s competitiveness.

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Re:Amazon Employee: We Shouldn’t Sell Facial Recognition Tec... by ta_egdhs on Thursday October 18, 2018 @08:05AM (#18247554)

iirc the stasi employed half the population to report on the other half of the population. Thats a lot of wasted money and labor. It simply isn't a sustainable system.

Chinas social credit is a perfect example of what I mean. technology is making it more and more practical to actually enforce restrictions on civil liberties down to the granular level.

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Re:Amazon Employee: We Shouldn’t Sell Facial Recognition Tec... by Ensorceled on Thursday October 18, 2018 @06:49AM (#18247278)

Has been uneconomical? Again, it takes a large, sophisticated computer network to track a person's Social Credit.

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