Euro Parliament backs ban on cops using blanket facial-recognition surveillance Police should be banned from using blanket facial-recognition surveillance to identify people not suspected of crimes. Certain private databases of people’s faces for identification systems ought to be outlawed, too. That's the feeling of the majority of members in the European Parliament this week. In a vote on Wednesday, 377 …
I am, with almost 100% certainty, sure that someone brought up the "Think of the CHILDREN!" during the discussion.
Because wide-spread state surveillance allows (somehow) the plod to [pre]-identify (potential) child abusers, don't you know.
"We can protect our children by having eyes EVERYWHERE!", the representative from the Sociojustice-Economics Republican Democratic Socialist Leninist Statist Party stated, in [their] (rambling) support of keeping the status quo.
The EU Parliament also backed an agenda of raising their compensation as well as guaranteeing that media coverage of future parliamentary processes shall be excluded from the increased surveillance coverage"
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Sound about right?
terms & conditions as well as exclusions apply*
* no gov or gov agency 'misunderstanding', mis-interpreting, bending, mis-applying, overapplying, overruling, outsourcing the misapplication of, following 'in letter', but not 'in spirit', breaking or otherwise purposefully or otherwise mis-using the (would-be) rules shall be punished to make the abovementioned rules effective.
@AC Since when can sexual orientation be identified from a person's bone structure? What next identifying criminals by their cranial structure.
@AC I am sure that was not what you ment by androgynous facial structure and it was just how I read it.
Hell even the use makeup can't indicate sexual orientation otherwise all Goths are gay where in reality they are just pretentious, attention seeking bastards.. ;)
Heavily made up 'Men' wil confuse it, as will people with what would be be classed by the system as a 'female' face having a beard would be my guess.
I know one guy that, while he was developing his Drag Queen persona, used to wear the drag makeup all the time so that he became comfortable with it, and the reactions it caused in 'normal' situations.
Ha. You know they don't. But authoritarian regimes can match faces to list of suspected LGBTI individuals, and then track their movements and whereabouts in order to confirm their suspicions, and then use the records as evidence against them when they are arrested for "moral crimes against society".
The police in both the U.S. and the U.K. did such tactics back in the 1920's through 1960's, of course at a much lower level because it demanded feet-on-the-ground manpower.
Thanks to technology, such surveillance is now available with push-button convenience.
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