Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ...
by ryandrake on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @11:46AM
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All the recent policy, technical leaps, and innovation around policing seem to be focused on cracking down on protesting and speech, and not really on what people would consider "fighting crime". You could get mugged on the street corner in broad daylight (or worse) and the police won't even answer your phone call, but the minute you show up on that street corner with 10 friends carrying signs and shouting, 20 officers will show up in riot gear, and every one of you will be identified using technology.
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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ...
by potato3732842 on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @11:49AM
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The purpose of the system (the police in this casse) is what it does.
Always been that way, always will be. It's just a little harder to bury your head in the sand than it used to be.
Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ...
by breppp on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @01:03PM
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the purpose of circular logic is circular logic
Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ...
by chongli on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @07:10PM
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The purpose of the system (the police in this casse) is what it does.
Nope. That's an ideology, not a statement of fact. It completely negates the possibility that systems can become corrupted (or simply fail) and no longer work towards their original purpose.
Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ...
by uoaei on Thursday August 14, 2025 @03:19AM
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Nope. That's an imposition of metaphysics onto what is solely clearly mere empiricism.
Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ...
by arrowsmith on Thursday August 14, 2025 @08:27AM
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"systems can become corrupted (or simply fail) and no longer work towards their original purpose"
Er, that's exactly what "the purpose of a system is what it does" means.
Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ...
by chongli on Thursday August 14, 2025 @05:10PM
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No, “the purpose of a system is what it does” implies that the original intent of the creators of a system was for it to become corrupted.
Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ...
by arrowsmith on Thursday August 14, 2025 @05:26PM
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That's one way to read the literal meaning of the words, but it's not what the phrase means as originally intended.