Facial Recognition Surveillance

Discussions center on the widespread use of facial recognition technology in surveillance, policing, and public spaces, including privacy concerns, dystopian risks, accuracy issues leading to wrongful arrests, and debates over its societal benefits versus threats to liberty.

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Barrin92 Sep 19, 2018 View on HN

let's use face recognition for it, maybe we can put it to use for something that isn't policing

stonethrowaway Jul 24, 2024 View on HN

I think they (Palantir, Five Eyes, etc) already have everything on you and the face scan is just an added touch. You can opt out but then you’re just part of a much smaller subset that’s even easier to keep track of.

_puk Oct 12, 2018 View on HN

You sure about that?Facial Recognition systems are out in the wild, busy profiling [0]0: https://twitter.com/GambleLee/status/862307447276544000

ReverseCold Feb 21, 2018 View on HN

Where "this" = face recognition technology :)It's here, and I can't think of anything you can do about it (especially in public).

tmp3123 Sep 8, 2013 View on HN

still can't avoid security cams + face recognition...

cyberax Nov 16, 2024 View on HN

The future is already here!https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/moscow-uses-facial-reco...

x87678r Jun 27, 2020 View on HN

Give up liberty lol. Basically many places already have facial recognition, just humans doing it.

bendy303 Sep 4, 2021 View on HN

you are ommiting one of the main points - facial recognition being used to check you at any given time. This is pretty dystopian wouldn't you say? all for a miniscule number of cases.

zeven7 Nov 22, 2021 View on HN

Is modern facial recognition any better or is it also considered bad to use for anything sensitive?

protomyth May 20, 2019 View on HN

Is the old prohibition on having facial recognition still in effect?