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Re:Police Say They Use Facial Recognition Despite Bans by lm28469 on Friday January 29, 2021 @05:21AM (#25955877)
Not OP but I believe most of the surveillance derives from third parties. The government doesn't directly control or monitor most of the surveillance tools (google, telecoms, geoloc, &c.), or at least not in most advanced countries. But it's getting easier and easier for them to access these data and there will probably be less and less safeguards.

For example in France we're in a permanent "state of emergency" since the attacks in 2015 (and now with covid), which grants more rights to the government/police and let them bypass some legal safeguards for "the greater good" but of course it's already being abused, not against terrorists, but against protesters, people squatting land to protest against projects that would have a negative impact on the environment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_to_Defend), &c.

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Re:Police Say They Use Facial Recognition Despite Bans by the_other on Friday January 29, 2021 @05:32AM (#25955942)
It cannot be for “the greater good”, or the law would not have been written that way before the “emergency”.
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Re:Police Say They Use Facial Recognition Despite Bans by AmericanChopper on Friday January 29, 2021 @07:06AM (#25956429)
Any government action that relies on emergency powers is an admission from that government that they have failed to govern using their prescribed legislative mandate. Any government that uses such power should be held to account for their failure to govern, because it’s almost never necessary, and is always abused.
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Re:Police Say They Use Facial Recognition Despite Bans by subaquamille on Friday January 29, 2021 @07:12AM (#25956474)
The tools necessary to achieve this good light not be the same in all corconstancies and you only want to extend the law when strictly necessary, not always. See food ratio in war times.
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