[ExI] facial recognition software

[SR Ballard]

I think lack of in person anonymity causes issues also.

When one makes a mistake it can never be outrun. One cannot “go to the frontier” or “go into the wilds” or any such thing. One cannot take up a different name and live a different life, never to be reminded of their past.

You can NEVER start over. Employers are legally required to dredge up your past even for fast food jobs. 

There will always be evidence of that baby you gave up for adoption, or what have you.

I don’t think that’s good. 

SR Ballard

> On Jun 12, 2020, at 9:16 PM, Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> All I hear when people say they want to stay anonymous is:
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> "I want to slap you, anonymously, today, so I can continue to slap you every day, also anonymously, for the foreseeable future."
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> Society can't work without a good identity system, can it?
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> 
>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> But it is also an invasion of privacy, and I think that outweighs the good usage above.
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>>> bill w
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