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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by righthand on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @10:40AM (#44889076)
No the world is actually much much safer especially in these first world countries.

However our society is now flooded with Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt campaigns that foreigners, terrorists, criminals, are out to get you.

This creates the dellusion that all these security companies are here to help and protect us. Really it's just politicians handing out tax money to private corporations (cronyism) for no improvement to security or life. But at least you'll tell yourself you feel safer because of it.

These disgusting corporations run by wealthy people want to make everything a TSA line, because they think you are cattle.

It means everyone suffers and your 4th Amendment is taken away (in US).

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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by potato3732842 on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @11:47AM (#44890005)
The fact that these people and corporations are successful as they are is a condemnation of a subset of the people in our society and the public policy that has been pushed at their behest.

In the same way that moralizing karens create drug cartels rich off trafficking scared morons unable to think a few steps ahead create Peter Theils rich off building 1984.

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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by Ray20 on Thursday August 14, 2025 @09:12AM (#44899978)
> No the world is actually much much safer especially in these first world countries.

Is that true, or first world just became older, not exactly safer?

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