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Always easier when you can avoid the law and just buy it off the shelf. It’s fine to do this, we say, because it’s not being done by the government - but if they’re allowed to turn around and buy it we’re much worse off.

"Tactical Targeting" - you just know someone's PowerPoint presentation used the word "synergy" in it too.

How long before the bring the price down and local PD's start using it too?

local laws forbidding facial recognition tech have never been wiser

225k USD per year sells us cheaply!

I keep reading this as “CBS signs…” and can’t help thinking about that uncomfortable possible future moment.

"Tactical Targetting": Whitewash stochastic terrorism to attack brown people before midterms.

And this right here is why Clearview (and others) should have been torn apart back when they first appeared on stage.

I 'member people who warned about something like this having the potential to be abused for/by the government, we were ridiculed at best, and look where we are now, a couple of years later.

"You’ve read your last free article."

I don't think I've read a Wired article since 2002...

There are certain people who believe that average citizens can be held responsible for the actions of their government, to the point that they are valid military targets.

Well, if that's true then employees of the companies that build the tools for all this to happen can also be held responsible, no?

I'm actually an optimist and believe there will come a time whena whole lot of people will deny ever working for Palantir, for Clearview on this and so on.

What you, as a software engineer, help build has an impact on the world. These things couldn't exist if people didn't create and maintain them. I really hope people who work at these companies consider what they're helping to accomplish.

We need a Constitutional amendment that guarantees a complete right to anonymity at every level: financial, vehicular, travel, etc. This means the government must not take any steps to identify a person or link databases identifying people until there has been a documented crime where the person is a suspect.

Only if an anonymous person or their property is caught in a criminal act may the respective identity be investigated. This should be sufficient to ensure justice. Moreover, the evidence corresponding to the criminal act must be subject to a post-hoc judicial review for the justifiability of the conducted investigation.

Unfortunately for us, the day we stopped updating the Constitution is the day it all started going downhill.

Don't we already have facial recognition technology that isn't based on AI? why is throwing AI into the mix suddenly a reasonable product? Liability wavers?

Wear a face mask in public. Got it.

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Skynet. "You only postponed it. Judgment Day is inevitable."

Having AI assisted law enforcement will be a big force of making the law applied evenly. Law enforcement has limited resources so being able to give them a force multiplier will help clean up a lot of issues that were thought to be impossible to enforce before.