Las Vegas police could boycott working NFL games over new facial ID policy

This kind of biometric security is getting a bit ridiculous. It would be different if it was done in a secure way and by that I mean secure in the sense that the person who provides the biometric data you had the ability to secure it wherever it went. This could absolutely be done but the reason it&#x27;s not is companies totally want to gather this data from people and then sell it to other companies for machine learning and other purposes. Same with our government that wants to gather this kind of data.<p>It would be quite straightforward to make your biometric identity a public private key kind of setup. Companies have access to your public key and you yourself carry your private key as some sort of physical identification that is unlocked with a two-factor method. This way any physical biometric thing is done on a device you own that could be mandated to be open technology completely auditable to be secure and all you do is use your physical doodad to interface with their thing to authenticate that yes you are the private key holder for this given public key.<p>It would be much more secure than identification cards that we have now such as driver&#x27;s licenses or passports. It would also be far more secure than the biometric style authentication they want to do now with them essentially owning a copy of your biometric data. But there is no profitability in true security and privacy for the citizens.

More importantly than being outraged over the biometrics invasion (which you should 100% be outraged over). You should be more outraged at the hypocrisy.<p>Las Vegas runs a fusion center which has some of the most invasive monitoring, capturing, metrics&#x2F;data collection of most agencies.<p>They do the following: - license plate recognition on every intersection. - microphones through the city which listen to conversations - drones which fly into and above people’s back yards. - Weaponized drones, ie fly drones into windows to break them, or people to stop them - thermal imagine of people’s houses and backyards. - facial ID against social media from cameras, as well as NCIC and more. - they have fake social media profiles they use to follow pages, groups, individuals suspected of bad behavior - they purchase PI from brokers en masse and run against it. - they probably have more cameras than almost any city in the US. - they have taps into all casinos cameras and microphones.<p>… these are the same officers who are upset over the new facial ID policy.<p>Here’s a brief news clip. But I also know these details because I’ve seen them first hand.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fox5vegas.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;2023&#x2F;11&#x2F;14&#x2F;fox5-takes-an-inside-look-las-vegas-polices-technical-operations-center&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fox5vegas.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;2023&#x2F;11&#x2F;14&#x2F;fox5-takes-an-ins...</a>

Don&#x27;t be naive. Today they require photos from cops, tomorrow from fans.

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The title confused me because here in Germany the police are civil servants and they generally don&#x27;t have a right to strike or just choose not to do their job as they&#x27;re an executive organ of the state but apparently here the police is just.. side hustling?<p><i>&quot;conversations with officers “making them very well aware of what they’re agreeing to.” But the decision may come down to what individual officers are comfortable with, Grammas said. Overtime security work is not mandatory for officers, but voluntary.&quot;</i><p>Maybe it&#x27;s a cultural thing but blurring the line between an officer in their public capacity and what is basically private security at a sports event should be two separate things. Hiring the police out as a private security force where they then get to negotiate what rules they have to play by has a Judge Dredd vibe to it

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They are probably more annoyed that it will be harder to pull off no-show or low-show details.<p>These are usually pretty sweet overtime or moonlighting gigs, and where there’s a sweet gig for cops, there’s always an asshole or two ready to milk it.

Interesting concern given all of our pictures were already sold by META to every data broker on the planet..