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As much as I’m against Big Brother per se, I’m all for a club or bar having ID and facial recognition of anyone and everyone who might ruin my night.
I understand that on a local level but what is the difference between a bar having face recognition and nationwide Police face recognition?
It is, to be fair, the thin edge of the wedge.
Mr_Sworld-
Exactly. It’s the grey.
The difference is the implementation.
As a victim of assault (in the middle of the day, in a public space) where neither the half dozen cctv cameras, witnesses, security guards knowing and naming the kids, nor police did fuck all to get a resolution, I struggle with these topics. You can have my face in a database but if that information system has poor integration or is badly managed, it’s useless.
Most face-rec nonsense is about selling our habits, and data, to sell us more shit. National security is a joke. The most successfully implemented human-tracking is for the perpetuation of capitalism, not for security.
We’re unlikely to reach a police state, but very likely to reach high levels of control through coercive ‘retail’ strategy.
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I found that a bar insisting on scanning your ID before you go in is a useful way to identify the bars that you don't want to go to.
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One's a private property so they can do what they like.
Surely banned persons will just wear New Romantics-style makeup to get around the facial recognition?
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Drakien
Being ID’d regardless of age is okay with me - it helps with the ‘banned from one banned from all’ agreement to try keep out the worst offenders. I’ve had my ID scanned in a number of places back when I still had a social life.
As much as I’m against Big Brother per se, I’m all for a club or bar having ID and facial recognition of anyone and everyone who might ruin my night.