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should there be facial recognition cameras everywhere?

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should there be facial recognition cameras everywhere?

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  • everywhere except at strip clubs

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lxskllr said:
Either delicious sarcastic trollbait, or I'm finding it hard to believe you live in the south, and are former military.
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Naw. It's ok. Because the government would never ever misuse this power. Not even a little bit. You can trust the government. And the bigger and more everpresent the government is, the better.
 
Remember that scene in Minority Report where all of the annoying 'in your face' ads were personally tailored from facial or retinal recognition? Ugh.
 
SKORPI0 said:
Pointless to have without a large database to compare it from. Not sure if social networks are willing to share photos for "privacy' concerns. :\
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LMAO! "privacy concerns." If social media was making a buck off it, you can guarantee they'll give up that database.
 
jupiter57 said:
IMO, at least High-Resolution cameras should have 100% coverage in all public places, inside & out. Facial recognition, however, is pushing the envelope at this time.

Look at all the advances in camera technology and the resulting arrests that have taken place in recent times.
If all Public areas were monitored & recorded, crime rates would drop as criminals are recorded and makes it easier to convict, and once convicted, their off the streets, making them safer.
Not to mention the security of having Automobile accidents on record would prove liability in accidents.

Of course, in that same vein, I also believe that every person residing in the US should submit to a DNA profile, along with fingerprints!

(jupiter57 does not break the law, so he's not worried about it!)
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MrDudeMan said:
Frankly, I don't have a problem with any of this. I also wouldn't have a problem if my car was capable of writing me a ticket for reckless behavior. I'm guessing we'll end up there someday, but probably not anytime in the near future.
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It's disgusting that people who think like this actually exist.
 
Jaskalas said:
Ever heard of the DMV?
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The issue there is that different states use different systems and they either don't want to share the information or they don't want to spend the money to make everything compatible (which would allow for the information to be easily shared).
 
Could the facial recognition software pick Mike Myers face out of a crowd in Liverpool England? His parents were from Liverpool and he said that when his "Austin Powers" movies premiered there the crowds were full of people who looked just like him.
 
I think the best answer is force everyone in America to wear GPS systems and always have them on. That way when incidents occur the police can easily determine where everyone was at each moment in an event and easily solve the crime and keep us safety loving Americans safe.
 
Nintendesert said:
I think the best answer is force everyone in America to wear GPS systems and always have them on. That way when incidents occur the police can easily determine where everyone was at each moment in an event and easily solve the crime and keep us safety loving Americans safe.
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And the telecos have a nice interface for easily looking up that data for a rather low price.
 
I'm sure they already do that with smart phones, but soon it will be an implant at birth. Heck, how do we know that's not already been going on?

The US government wants to be able to track everything people do in real life and on the Internet and fully classify it in an easily searchable/trend detection system, so they can find more little nitpick things to arrest people for. That means more profit. Once convicted they can just lay out all of the evidence on the table from the minute you left your house with minute by minute time stamps. If you try to "prove" them wrong, you are lying and get charged even more for lying in court, because computers never make mistakes.

I can see it happening. This is actually going to turn into a "system" and everyone must comply. Almost seems like something that should be a movie, but it's reality.
 
Red Squirrel said:
I'm sure they already do that with smart phones, but soon it will be an implant at birth. Heck, how do we know that's not already been going on?

The US government wants to be able to track everything people do in real life and on the Internet and fully classify it in an easily searchable/trend detection system, so they can find more little nitpick things to arrest people for. That means more profit. Once convicted they can just lay out all of the evidence on the table from the minute you left your house with minute by minute time stamps. If you try to "prove" them wrong, you are lying and get charged even more for lying in court, because computers never make mistakes.

I can see it happening. This is actually going to turn into a "system" and everyone must comply. Almost seems like something that should be a movie, but it's reality.
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And you've got organizations that rent out prisoners as cheap labor to the private sector.
Naaahhh, that'll never get horribly abused.


It's just that I see a species with a very long record of horrible mistreatment of others, and a species whose basic behaviors haven't changed too terribly much since recorded history began, and very likely before that as well. We just have more powerful tools now, which allow us to manifest these behaviors in much grander ways.
 
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Jeff7 said:
It's just that I see a species with a very long record of horrible mistreatment of others, and a species whose basic behaviors haven't changed too terribly much since recorded history began, and very likely before that as well. We just have more powerful tools now, which allow us to manifest these behaviors in much grander ways.
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Nah, that stuff doesn't happen anymore. We're different now. All that bad behavior happened back in the dark ages(pick a decade<current) :rolls eyes:
 
This just in. FB opening a huge data warehouse in a town by me. So it begins...

I always find the "I don't do anything wrong, so I don't mind it" crowd interesting. I bet the Jews used to think that way too. I mean..religious persecution never happens right? I think people are so overly comfortable these days they forget that just a few short years ago nearly everything but white people were persecuted for something for no reason except it was "wrong to not be white and/or not male".

Never be so self centered that you forget other people may not be as honest as you. This goes for the criminals and the...supposed not criminals making laws.
 
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The cameras are already in most places. They do not need to be super high resolution. All that work is done by special software programs, that law enforcement and the NSA / CIA have. As for a database, well in most states, you are required to have a Photo on your Driver License or state issued ID card. So your picture is out there for the software to find.
 
Make more sense to record and the authorities can get a subpena from the courts whe access is warranted.
 
sdifox said:
Make more sense to record and the authorities can get a subpena from the courts whe access is warranted.
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Subpoenas are too easy to get. The standard is much lower than a warrant. All they have to do is trot out the "national security" argument, and state they can't divulge their interest due to "security concerns", and the get carte blanche.
 
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