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Originally Posted by Pope of Greenwich Village
People have already been wrongly arrested due to faulty facial recognition software. They now have it at the airport. They don't ask for your boarding pass, they ask you to look into the camera. God forbid the camera recognizes you as someone else. This also means that the government is sharing biometric data with private corporations. This doesn't bother some of you. WHY? And this is just the beginning; easy pass/street cameras/kiosks everywhere will be mistaking you for someone else when you walk or drive by.
There was a time when the ACLU would have been all over this and fought to the bitter end to get these cameras removed from public spaces.
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Excellent points.
The ACLU did weigh in a while back:
https://gcn.com/articles/2016/03/28/...cy-policy.aspx
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Originally Posted by Pope of Greenwich Village
Corporations already have access to the government data base. They don't gaf what color you are either.
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And the other way around. When the government is forbidden to collect information, it gets what it wants from corporations.