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arfonzo · 9w
Yeah they started "testing" them in our area last year. I love how you can see them from a mile away, so anyone who actually has something to hide will just neatly avoid it.
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Agree that they are obvious, although in a busy area if you aren't looking out for them I think it's easy to get picked up on the cameras before noticing and avoiding.
I think this stage is part testing, part picking up any wanted people they detect (plain clothes police came back and forth from crowd into the van), and a large part normalisation to mass public-space facial-recognition monitoring.
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arfonzo · 9w
You hear about these facial recognition jobs arresting people from the local met forces every now and then. As a privacy advocate, I don't like them. As someone who wants to keep criminals off the streets, I have mixed feelings. Guess things have changed a lot since I've now got a young daughter. I...