For those who don’t know, prosopagnosia (face blindness) makes it nearly impossible to recognize peoples faces - even those you know well, which is why facial recognition tech could be genuinely helpful for folks with this condtion.
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Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Fuck the police but as a propagnosia sufferer, I want this.
MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 1 week ago
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I’m not opposed to the technology. An aid for prosopagnosia would actually be an excellent use of this tech.
But, yeah one individual using it as an aid vs an increasingly authoritarian government creating an entire surveillance network to track people is some bullshit.
I hate when people claim that something like that is inevitable, and if you disagree, then you’re anti-tech or inhibiting progress. Society is supposed to control technology, tech isn’t supposed to control society. If we’re not dictating how the tech is being used on us, then one powerful individual or group of individuals is using tech to control us.
I try not to put pictures of my kid’s face on the internet. Now every time we leave our house, somebody is going to have the ability to save images of my kid to a database, and track out movements around the city. I have no way of knowing what they actually do with those images once they’re saved, and who all might be accessing this system and database.
Knowing for a fact that our government caters to and protects pedophiles and trafficking networks, how can anybody expect me to just accept this as inevitable progress, and not fight like hell to stop it from happening?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Oh yeah I agree. As much as I would like something like this for my own issues, this tech is inherently ripe for abuse that puts us all at risk. We should fight this. Unfortunately we live in a world where technology is more likely to be systematically abused than used to help people.