Do foreigners have to give biometric information such as finger prints, facial data to the Chinese airport authorities when they visit China? Anyone?
US asks for photo/fingerprints while getting visa.
EU and Britain, too.
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really? If everyone has a record then they can be detained whenever the authorities feel like it.
Do governments who use this kind of 'selective justice' really need the pretext of an actual law being broken? I think what carlmr is saying is quite relevant to more democratic countries.
> Do governments who use this kind of 'selective justice' really need the pretext of an actual law being broken?
At least one former UK Home Secretary has said that it's a good thing to have laws that aren't usually enforced, as it gives the authorities something to use when they do want to go after someone.
So (for at least one country) the answer is "yes".
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#94Do foreigners have to give biometric information such as finger prints, facial data to the Chinese airport authorities when they visit China? Anyone?
Yes. You have always had to supply a photo for a Chinese visa. A fingerprint requirement was added recently (mid 2017 I believe) at all the Shenzhen/HK border points (ferry, 3x land crossings) but it sounds like it hasn't yet reached all the other airports/border crossings yet.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most cameras in the U.K. are privately owned and operated with no central system.
After watching various films where organisations are able to pull up feeds from cameras absolutely anywhere in the world, I'm wondering how long it will be before there's a mandatory internet connection and back door on all 'security' cameras sold.
The backdoors are already there. Most surveillance cameras are sold with hardcoded user accounts.
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#96All these reports have the feelings of small rumblings or rumors of purges and famines that leaked out of the Soviet Union in the 30’s. The dismissal of all of them due to China’s size and growth really strengthens the analogy too. Privacy is important because basically we all are, at least once a day, committing some kind of crime. I mean the definition for loitering is so broad that alone gets most people. The ad-t…
> Privacy is important because basically we all are, at least once a day, committing some kind of crime. I think that is the big issue we will see and have seen recently. Surveillance tools are better than ever in history. Many times, laws were created as deterrents to some behavior, that maybe shouldn't be laws, because it wasn't easy to nab everyone doing it. Back then cops, judges and more weren't as locked into f…
Not only surveillance, but the accountability has gone up too. Not only is it easy to be exposed performing morally debatable but illegal stuff but they are also permanently recorded by unknowable number of entities(news sites/blogs), shared across innumerable platforms and get judged by mobs you never knew existed, leading to a possibly life altering effect.
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#97Rob Lake's comment is pretty spot on (I'm taking the liberty to repost w/o his authorization): ""The app brings up the suspect’s vital information, including name, ethnicity, gender and address." Presumably version 2 of the app will also pop up the person's social credit score." That being said, this will definitely come to the west sooner or later. I mean, doesn't London already have cameras at every street corner f…
The UK has weird little surveillance state gameshow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunted_(2015_TV_series) - its use of CCTV is somewhat TV-artificial but supposed to be representative of real capabilities.
The Met's supposed "super recognisers" have always made me suspicious that they're cover for a recognition computer system. Also for use at protests.
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#98Remarkably close form factor to Glass, but definitely not something Google would be participating in. Glass Enterprise Edition is much sleeker, this has a much more boxed-off front. Looks like they may be using the same projector-style display as Glass, but it's covered so that an onlooker can't see if it's displaying anything or not. Fairly thick tether cable, seems thicker than you'd need for just power, unlikely i…
> definitely not something Google would be participating in
Not something Google would get to choose whether to participate in.
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#100I feel, once criminals realize this facial recognition thing, they will start using facemasks or some other new techniques
Just a beauty spot or two in suitably adversarial locations.