Comment on Police rule out using Live Facial Recognition on Surrey Street

Amoxtli@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How?

  They’ve literally been asking for more crime cameras be installed to fight crime since a resident was murdered. “It’s not in the budget.”

  More on duty police? “Sorry, it’s just not in the budget.”

  Live facial recognition tracking system that doesn’t exist anywhere else and can be used to collect data and create a giant AI database with data from every civilian it tracks. That data can then coincidentally be used to train AI models and enhance profits for companies like Palantir.

  “Yeah we should be able to swing that in the budget.”

  Basically the exact same story is happening in the U.S. city where I live. We have a boil water advisory every other week, we have terrible roads, and awful schools but somehow the city has the budget to update our cameras so we will become the first city to test this out.

  After Palantir already secretly used our city to create and test their predictive policing model (which still fucking sucks btw).

  Oh also Palantir happens to be currently working with the U.S. government to create a giant database of every citizen.

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