Re:The Rise of ‘Luxury Surveillance’
by philsnow on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @04:15PM
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> this technology is bad because isn’t perfect and here and can be used in nefarious ways
Did you click through to the wired article ([0]) about the tech disproportionately making false positive identifications of black people?
The thesis is not, "surveillance can be misused by authorities / corporations", but rather "surveillance technology as it currently exists is killing and/or ruining the lives of, specifically, falsely-accused black people".
> Hopefully the author gets feedback and grows from this
Did you click through to the wired article ([0]) about the tech disproportionately making false positive identifications of black people?
The thesis is not, "surveillance can be misused by authorities / corporations", but rather "surveillance technology as it currently exists is killing and/or ruining the lives of, specifically, falsely-accused black people".
> Hopefully the author gets feedback and grows from this
[0] https://www.wired.com/story/wrongful-arrests-ai-derailed-3-m...