• lime!@feddit.nu
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    7 hours ago

    maybe. when china did it with their law about children not using their phones after curfew, they handled it by building a face database of everyone except children, then matching against that.

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        7 hours ago

        also a very useful way to mask your true reason if your true reason is “i want to build a database of people”. four horsemen of the internet type shit.

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          7 hours ago

          Yes but I don’t think anyone but the ccp is capable of actually doing that competently at the scale of a large country. Maybe ten years ago google might’ve had a shot.

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            7 hours ago

            doing it incompetently is arguably worse, because that involves storing way too much info and sharing it too freely.

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              Yeah. I’m not a fan of any if this, but nobody cares when you say ‘dont be evil¹’; not being pointlessly recklessly evil isn’t a serious grown-up policy. better to do a political Tesla valve; introduce competing contradictory evil, dilute the propaganda, and arrest momemtym

              ¹except HUAC. HUAC cares.

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                6 hours ago

                you say that, but if that was the case why would ibm go to all that trouble to get an exclusion from the json user agreement clause “the software shall be used for good, not evil”?

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                    they probably do, just that we don’t get to hear about it until a couple of years have passed.