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CBP signs Clearview AI deal to use face recognition for 'tactical targeting'

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Re: CBP signs Clearview AI deal to use face recognition for 'tactical targeting'

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We need a Constitutional amendment that guarantees a complete right to anonymity at every level: financial, vehicular, travel, etc. This means the government must not take any steps to identify a person or link databases identifying people until there has been a documented crime where the person is a suspect. Only if an anonymous person or their property is caught in a criminal act may the respective identity be inve…

That will be wildly unpopular with both parties and most importantly their constituents. I doubt even the libertarian party should they get the president, house and senate could pull it off

Re: CBP signs Clearview AI deal to use face recognition for 'tactical targeting'

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I wonder how many laws and sentencing guidelines etc are formulated with an implicit assumption that most of the time, people aren't caught.

I think it will reveal unfair laws and as a society we will have to rebalance things that had such an assumption in place.

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I wonder how many laws and sentencing guidelines etc are formulated with an implicit assumption that most of the time, people aren't caught.

In my estimation all of the criminal ones and at least half of the civil ones.

Re: CBP signs Clearview AI deal to use face recognition for 'tactical targeting'

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We need a Constitutional amendment that guarantees a complete right to anonymity at every level: financial, vehicular, travel, etc. This means the government must not take any steps to identify a person or link databases identifying people until there has been a documented crime where the person is a suspect. Only if an anonymous person or their property is caught in a criminal act may the respective identity be inve…

That will be wildly unpopular with both parties and most importantly their constituents. I doubt even the libertarian party should they get the president, house and senate could pull it off

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Re: CBP signs Clearview AI deal to use face recognition for 'tactical targeting'

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are you sure it won't enabled targeted enforcement for people law enforcement finds irritating, more than evenly applied law? It's still people setting the priorities and exercising discretion about charging.
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