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Your Face Is Not a Bar Code
Phil Agre has a solid essay opposing automatic face recognition systems in public areas. These uses are only going to increase, because the technology is cheap (enough) and appealing to authorities everywhere; it's good to have some arguments to hand for opposing the spread of the cameras.
You are the worst hypocrite of all the Slashdot editors. Why don't you just piss off?
You are the worst hypocrite of all the Slashdot editors. Why don't you just piss off?
You are the worst hypocrite of all the Slashdot editors. Why don't you just piss off?
You are the worst hypocrite of all the Slashdot editors. Why don't you just piss off?
No no no no no. If you're going to troll, do it properly.
Ager's core assumption is that liberty is a vital attribute of the individual. Even John Stuart Mill did not go so far. JSM was willing to concede the right of the government to take preventative measures, especially in a society so overcome with crime that entire neighbourhoods resemble a different, much more dangerous nation than the rest of the city they are in.
Nice start, get in the misinformation as early as possible. Unfortunately, most of the slashbots do know that JSM was completely pro-privacy.
If you relax for a moment, the belief that individual liberty is a universal right -- an assumption that has by no means been proven fait accompli, you will see that these camera's provide an a priori benefit to society. Criminals cannot wander free in our streets and malls with these around.
Not bad, but no slashbot will ever consider privacy not being vital. Try for a mid-point there.
Let's stop and think about the children for a second. I believe that if we as a free society were to register all known pedophiles in a national database with pictures, this system could ipso facto provide massive benefits for the endangered young of our nation.
Far too obvious. Not a chance anyone will bite that. And paedophiles has an 'a'.
I can not in good faith oppose pro bono publico a system which almost guarantees safety for my children. I do not trust the mettle of anyone who does not agree with this.
And that wrecks the whole thing. Never ever end a troll like that.
Ach, you've really pissed me off now. I'm off to abuse Michael for a while.
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You are the worst hypocrite of all the Slashdot editors. Why don't you just piss off?
You are the worst hypocrite of all the Slashdot editors. Why don't you just piss off?
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
it wouldn't surprise me, michael you censoring nazi bitch.
this guy is just expressing his opinion about the article.
moderation system does not work.
You're really new to this, aren't you?
Those of you arguing there's a 'good' use for
.....".
this technology are woefully off the mark.
This type of intrusive surveillance represents
the beginning of the electronic prison. With
cell phones and other mobile devices being
traceable to within 15', with face recognition
ubiquitously deployed and automatically compiling
your actions and movements, with email tracing,
with open financial/medical/etc. records,
with on-line/bricks-n-mortar profiling, with
Echelon, with your DirectTv/CableTv/Tivo
media monitoring,with automated traffic
infraction monitoring cameras,
and on and on and on, the day has arrived when no person
in the 'modern' world will be safe from the crushing
tyranny of both the government and the
business oligarchies.
"Oh", you say, "what about all those pedophiles,
drunk drivers, terrorist, etc. that these techniques
will catch".
"Oh", I say, "what will you do when you don't
get a job because your grocery convenience
card shows you predisposition to beer on Sundays
or the face recognition tracking software shows
that you walk by the Adult porn store 3 times
a week [even if it just happens to be between
where you work and where you live] or that
you hung out in the same bar as a known anti-corporate
group hung out in three years prior or
There will be no privacy. There will be no innocent
until proven guilty.
Instead, there will be an assumption
that all 'observable' (thus public) behavior is suspect
and/or criminal.
There will be a presupposition that somewhere,
sometime, everyone will make a mistake. A moral mistake,
an ethical mistake, a criminal mistake.
And with that mistake you'll be blackmailed, blackballed
and blackedout.
I can't believe that this won't crush the human spirit
(maybe even more than sitting in a gray cubicle for
35 years!!!).
Within twenty years, if we let this continue,
you will be born into the electronic jail,
work/live/eat/sleep in jail and die in jail.
Is that worth it? How many 'real' criminals
do we catch to make it worth it? How long
is it worth serving time in the electronic jail
house to get a little sense of security?
How much of YOUR soul are you willing to
trade away? How much of MY soul are you
willing to sacrifice to the electronic
jail masters?
For my part, I won't trade any of what little
freedoms I have left and YOU have left
for this dystpoia.
BULLSHIT!!!! Our safety comes from sociatal taboos and guns.
Well i had a cool ascii art of YHBT for occasions like this but seems like the new lameness filter is preserving us from evil things like ascii art. Just think a whole generation of artists are being censored by Slashdot. "_~