Re:Facial recognition system risks 'chilling effect' on free...
by Ntrails on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @08:49AM
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You can argue it's not worth paying the price to catch more murderers, to protect more children from pedophiles, to stop more rapes. But that's a subjective value judgement and society doesn't have to agree with you.
Be disappointed all you want, but try actually taking their position seriously first.
Re:Facial recognition system risks 'chilling effect' on free...
by NeedMoreTea on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @09:24AM
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> but try actually taking their position seriously first.
That's a mighty big presumption. Upon what grounds do you say I am not?
Re:Facial recognition system risks 'chilling effect' on free...
by theseatoms on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @11:41AM
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> I expect more of politicians.
You might want to update this prior.
It should be when the reality, despite the publicity of occasional terrorist incidents (9/11 included), is "slightly freer and slightly less safe against an event so vanishingly unlikely you should simply forget about it. You're hundreds of times more likely to die in a car accident or falling off a ladder. We should not let the terrorists win by ruining our way of life and associated freedoms".
Surely that's not that hard a message to sell when it has been a winning message for many years in the past?
No, it's the current fashion. I expect more of politicians. Of course in today's world I am regularly disappointed.