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Yeah, we just need less privacy, more fascism, and more brutal cops.
I don't understand how you've equated security cameras in a PUBLIC PLACE as "less privacy".
What do you want privacy for in a public place?
I don't think the issue is "I want to do illegal things in public without consequence." It's more, "I don't trust the mechanisms of enforcement to use this power justly."
For example: Radio City Music Hall used facial recognition tech to identify and ban a lawyer whose firm was suing them. She wasn't even working the case. RCMH just issued a blanket ban. It's abusive.
And there are other risks. Stalking is a huge one. (Some creep takes your pic at the supermarket and now you spend a year of your life getting creepy messages and feeling unsafe everywhere you go.) Or there's the risk that people who participate in lawful protest will face retribution or punishment by corrupt law enforcement.
Kashmir Hill has a great book out about this now. You can read an interview with her here.
ah yes, you have "Nothing to hide" i presume?
No dude, I have plenty to hide. Just nothing that I do in a public place though. Wonder when was the last time you were at one of them.
If they have facial tracking then they can basically keep track of everywhere you go
Have you seen China? Singapore is fast moving that way.
That's what fascists literally always say.
This implies they're a utopia and not a rich-people-only dystopia.
Is the bigger picture murdering people consuming cannabis?
Murder is acceptable if petty thefts are reduced? So the worth of a human life is roughly $200 - $2000, or the worth of a laptop?
If the only way to stop petty thefts is murder, petty theft cannot be prevented ethically.
Sending the message that money is more important than the lives of people, alright.
I'm happy to live in a country where this kind of ""justice"" system is impossible to implement legally.
"It's good that we kill someone for smoking a joint because no one stole my laptop!" You have fucked up priorities.
And the only way you can have your laptop is by murdering someone for smoking a joint? Are you sure?
Virtually every country on Earth except Singapore doesn't execute people for such spurious reasons. Do you think Finland is a crime-ridden hellhole?