New Orleans used Minority Report-like facial recognition software to monitor citizens for crime suspects: Report

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• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Problem is, they still find it OK to make somebody’s life miserable as soon as he is suspected of anything.

  “Innocent until proven” has no real meaning, and I have never heard that someone got paid back for all the damage that was done to him during a false suspicion.

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• blargle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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• UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yet another W for me because I am staying in my basement 24/7.

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  • AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Or just wear a mask, saw a dude ride by me on a bike yesterday at like 11am in a skeleton zip up mask covering his whole head. Smart man.

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    • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Can’t they still identify him as “the guy with the skeleton mask”? Maybe not “identify” but more of, build a profile.

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It sure would be a shame if the cameras started failing due to damage faster than they could be replaced.

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  • asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s amazing how little resistance and vandalism these cameras face

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  • AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My immediate thought was that I’m sure they would just start weaponizing them to fight back.so cameras could stand their ground.

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• ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Someone grab a can of spray paint and fuck that shit up.

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  • AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I feel like somebody did that when they first came out and they created some kind of ridiculous over the top penalty for doing it.

    Its a bigger risk than I’m willing to take, but I would suggest if you’re going to go that route, try to get a wealthy and well connected friend to do it for you or have a good lawyer on retainer

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    • ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’ll wear a Trump mask

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• Absaroka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  New Orleans has precogs?!?!

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  • AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Somehow I missed that New Orleans had a secret partnership with Palantir for predictive policing starting around 2012 that was kind of revealed as a big scandal in 2018.

    Allegedly this has nothing to do with that… Allegedly… Absolutely nothing.

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    • Absaroka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I just saw that making the rounds today as well. Felt like one of those “we know this won’t be accepted so we’ll hope we don’t get caught until it doesn’t matter” moments.

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• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  And it’s always used to harass a certain group, making that group nervous and causing things to happen so people from that targeted group can be arrested. That in turn is of course the proof they need to say the system is working.

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