The McDonald's kiosks could very easily be sharing data with other private companies (e.g. Palantir) who the government contracts with. There are so many other companies jumping in on sharing data like this, why would a company like McDonald's care about selling out customer privacy in exchange for a better bottom line for investors?
I'm sure this is unpopular opinion but I'm glad we can catch murderers quickly which technology. The flip side is worse.
Note: This has nothing to do with the reasons for murdering which I'm not going to debate.
According to whom? Homicide clearance rates in the US have been getting worse for decades [1][2]. The same is true in the UK, another surveillance state, where only 10% of violent offenses get solved [3].
This promise of a crime-free utopia has been nothing but a deceptive manipulation of the public and the scary part is that it keeps working.
[1] https://www.murderdata.org/p/reported-homicide-clearance-rat...
[2] https://www.npr.org/2023/04/29/1172775448/people-murder-unso...
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/13/most-violent...