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London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces

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Re: London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces

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It’s a moot point. I’m saddened at the invasion of privacy and the intrusion on an individual’s civil liberties, but anonymous travel on the London Underground died when they made bank cards and contactless the primary way to get through the barriers. I’m not saying that “this doesn’t matter because it’s slightly worse than before”. I’m saying the frog has been boiling for a long time. I don’t want people being surpr…

Makes me wonder, does anyone know of any countries with high living standards that do not have extensive surveillance? I live in Norway, and I assume I’m already being tracked in a lot of ways. Where would I move to, if I came to the point where I felt the downsides of surveillance was beyond the value of staying in the country?

Re: London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces

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post #488

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Wouldn't that lead you to getting charged for destruction of evidence?

Only if you told the police to unlock the phone with your fingerprint. If they did it without your involvement, it's allowed.

Yes, but wouldn't the fact that you intentionally set the phone up to wipe itself be enough to charge you for that? You've pretty much made a booby trap for the police.

Re: London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces

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This is why I use the human-run checkout lines. I want to keep the humans employed.

Our high standard of living is due to machines doing the work rather than humans.

It is not a machine, in this case. It's you, the customer, doing the work of the cashier.

Driving a car yourself is not "the machine doing the work of a bus driver".

Re: London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces

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post #345

I don't mind it. I work in the same field and people don't want to work in government institutions anymore, there are less and less kids in police/military schools. Cameras allow officers to stop patrolling and do more preventive work, focus on hard cases, etc. In a relative small city we manage 500+ cameras and more are added every day. The problem is storage and finding people to monitor them. My only issue is gett…

> My only issue is getting it in hands of some crazy dictator

thankfully the US doesn't have a crazy dude on top right now. dictator is probably a bit far fetched, but to be honest...

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