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Re:Clearview AI helps law enforcement match photos of people... by arcticbull on Saturday January 18, 2020 @10:42AM (#22084974)
> We should be dramatically limiting the power of the government as it was in the past in the US.

> The government needs to be controlled to the point that it doesn't matter whether they can identify a protestor or not, because peacefully protesting should not be a crime that warrants government intervention.

Right, but that was never the case, and it probably won't be in the future.

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Re:Clearview AI helps law enforcement match photos of people... by imgabe on Saturday January 18, 2020 @10:58AM (#22085069)
Well, it's going to have to be if we're going to live in a world where facial recognition technology exists.

Because this idea where the government wants to jail peaceful protestors, but surely they'll refrain from using certain technologies to find them if we just ask nicely does not make sense to me.

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Re:Clearview AI helps law enforcement match photos of people... by arcticbull on Sunday January 19, 2020 @10:06AM (#22091775)
I mean I agree but if they wanted to jail peaceful protestors surely they could do that by showing up at the protest and rounding them up? The whole point is to be conspicuous.
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