[ExI] facial recognition software

[Brent Allsop]

All I hear when people say they want to stay anonymous is:

"I want to slap you, anonymously, today, so I can continue to slap you
every day, also anonymously, for the foreseeable future."

Society can't work without a good identity system, can it?


On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 6:12 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> It's broken, misidentifying people n far too many cases.
>
> Police relying on it would thus conduct enforcement against
> innocent people in far too many cases.
>
> Say what you will about privacy, but "the cops would arrest the wrong
> person if they used it" seems like a good enough reason not to use it, even
> for people who do not care about the privacy of others.
>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 12:59 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> I see where Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM have started refusing to sell this
>> software to police depts. until the issue is settled at the federal level.
>>
>> I am of two minds about that software:  to some extent it keeps us safe
>> by identifying perps for the cops to bring in.
>>
>> But it is also an invasion of privacy, and I think that outweighs the
>> good usage above.
>>
>> bill w
>>
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