There are a lot of things going on that I find interesting. But one that has caught my attention is the realization that surveillance is a profitable business.<p>Live facial recognition deployments cost a lot of money. Just in Cardiff alone the police spent 3 million pounds in this technology. And they have more than 25 police officers and with brand new iPads surveilling people in real time. (I was there.)<p>Imagine how much money they're going to spend in London now. So besides the obvious human rights related questions, the other not so obvious one is: Who is getting these contracts? Where is that money going?
Big Brother Watch, the UK campaign group fighting facial recognition has opened a petition to stop the deployment of live facial recognition by the Met Police:<p><a href="https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-the-met-police-using-facial-recognition-surveillance" rel="nofollow">https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-the-met-police-u...</a>
The story as reported by the BBC, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51237665" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51237665</a>
Url changed from <a href="https://twitter.com/bbw1984/status/1220681916543840257" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/bbw1984/status/1220681916543840257</a>, which points to this.<p>If anyone finds a more neutral and substantive article on this, we can change it again.
This is interesting in that it seems like explicitly <i></i>non-live<i></i> FR: <a href="https://blog.clearview.ai/post/2020-01-23-clearview-is-not-public/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.clearview.ai/post/2020-01-23-clearview-is-not-p...</a>
see also: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-51196849" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-51196849</a><p>connect the dots
We may be losing privacy, but whether we're losing power and freedom is another thing.<p>It's important to accept a changing world. Luddites have railed against 'immoral' new technologies that will cause the end of the world, time and time again.<p>This adjustment is going to be hard. I believe privacy is a fundamental human right.<p>But if technology makes this concept obsolete, then we must adapt.<p>We may have to change our tune to defending radical acceptance of difference and fighting against thought policing and over-policing of divergent human behaviour - not the mere detection of it. Without the freedom for such creativity and normal humanness, we are doomed.