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Facial Recognition Cameras Peering Into Some SF Nightspots
Fluffeh writes "On Friday, a company called SceneTap flipped the on switch enabling cameras installed in around 20 bars to monitor how full the venues are, the mix of men and women, their ages — and to make all this information available live via an iPhone or Android app. Privacy advocates are unimpressed, though, as the only hint that people are being monitored is via tiny stickers on the windows. Beyond academics and policy experts, some San Francisco bar owners that originally partnered with SceneTap have said that they're pulling out and will be taking down the company's cameras. An increasing number of bars still listed on the SceneTap's site are now saying that they're not working with the Chicago startup, including Mr. Smith's, Southpaw, John Colins, and Bar None."
I'm on board with the one that checks for current insurance. Install that fucker on every cop car.
why? it doesn't increase safety. If you want to protect yourself from litigiousness, do your part to minimize liability for traffic accidents. It's bad enough that insurance is marketed nowadays like it actually makes you safer on the road. it doesn't. it just makes insurance companies rich.
maybe if we didn't require insurance, and we made a lot of noise about it, people would pay more attention on the road. THAT would do a lot more for safety than enforcing draconian irrelevancies.
OF course, it needs to come with the protection from using that information for anything else, but driving is not a fucking right, and when risking my life and livelyhood with a 4000lb weapon, society has decided that you must have insurance.
oh.. well if SOCIETY says so, it must be right.. my bad. A society made up of majorities who can't be bothered to learn to drive well in the first place. yeah fuck you. I want to take away your insurance and MAKE you drive 'naked' on the road.. maybe then you'll get the fuck off your cellphones, leave the sex for the bedroom, and keep away from drugs while on the road. Then, if you hit someone, you'll be really fucked instead of making the rest of us pay for your ineptitude.