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Offline wilber

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Re: Free society is dead. 1984 is here.
« on: February 14, 2020, 02:07:38 pm »
Not quite what I said. It is about the use of that film. If they are randomly trying to identify people, using modern techniques such as facial recognition, so they can build a database of "protesters" then that is wrong. People have the right to peaceful assembly and protest, and that should not be infringed. If they are recording an event, and a crime occurs at that event, then yes they can use the film to identify those involved in the crime. It is all about use and retention. I don't consider a film of a crowd to be arbitrarily snapping pictures of individuals, but if they then isolate an individual from that film that is a different story.

Well there is the grey area, the difference between what they can do and what they do do. We don't know they are compiling data bases using random facial recognition, just that it could be possible.
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