thewest-isdead:

solarpunkcast:

runcibility:

https://twitter.com/kashhill/status/1218538205932412930

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html

Like, there are a lot of reasons why I don’t post selfies anymore. A big part of it is that the last three years of my life have been hell, and it shows, and I can’t quite reconcile myself with that reality yet.

But also, the closer we get to an absolutely explicitly authoritarian government, and a brutality-first police force emboldened by both a government that backs them and a judiciary now heavily stacked towards supporting them, I know full well that all it takes is a few more twitches further to the reichright…  and all it will take is some cop who knows they won’t suffer consequences to face ID me, see my history, and come up with an excuse to hassle me.

To say nothing of when right-wing shithead hate groups get their hands on this in future decades.

ALSO EXTREMELY RELEVANT HERE

The U.S. has more surveillance cameras per person than China

“Why do you hate ai so much” well when your face gets scanned and recognized for something you did ten years ago and you Instantly get beaten down by police for it maybe you’ll get that I don’t love the fact ai can scan a human face