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Re:Activists turn facial recognition tools against the police by ben_w on Thursday October 22, 2020 @02:59PM (#24861932)
In a perfect world, that’s something which only bad cops have anything to worry about.

We’re not in a perfect world, and — as all humans are imperfect — evidence of badness will accumulate in even the best of us. I wish I knew how to fix that, because it also applies to literally all online activity, and isn’t just a cops thing.

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Re:Activists turn facial recognition tools against the police by Hithredin on Thursday October 22, 2020 @03:21PM (#24862256)
Funny enough, this is the exact same argument we use against state mass surveillance:

" If you have nothing to hide, why refusing surveillance?"

So police should be exempted from mass surveillance ban ?!?

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Re:Activists turn facial recognition tools against the police by ben_w on Thursday October 22, 2020 @03:31PM (#24862386)
> So police should be exempted from mass surveillance ban ?!?

Whatever the solution ends up being, I want the police to be the same as everyone else with regard to that solution.

I don’t really get normal human psychology, so I don’t know if everybody or nobody should have facial recognition software in public places, but I do think it should be a choice of “everybody or nobody”.

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Re:Activists turn facial recognition tools against the police by avmich on Thursday October 22, 2020 @03:28PM (#24862340)
Police is here to serve the public, so naturally public may want to impose rules on police which it doesn't want to impose on itself. It all depends on who wants what (and for what).
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