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▲ Flavius 2 hours ago

Good news: rolling these facial scans everywhere in the country should lead to dozens of false positives.

▲windexh8er 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Where's our buddy Garrett Langley or even YC's Garry Tan to come to the defense of the privatized surveillance state?

Pretty much all I ever read about these systems is heinous false positives. I've currently set up automation to pull the local data that includes police activity. One of the towns over from me has, at least, 6 Flock cameras (probably more) for a locale of less than 2000 people. I've not once seen anything related to ALPR or any camera system providing any influence on assisting a crime. You'd think Mr. Langley would be begging police chiefs around the US to put in a positive spin to public information around these digital watchers.

But the morons buying these systems are also the morons taking state tax dollars to buy SWAT vehicles for 100s of thousands of dollars because they want to cosplay GI Joe. Yet... You want a park? Or something that's actually useful in your local community? Fund raise it yourself is the response.