Re: Wait until Facewatch is hacked
Civil liberties aren't taken away outright, unless you're in Hong Kong. They get eaten away from the edges until we forget we had them in the first place.
As stated, if the shop manager was so confident there was a thief on the premises, they could have made a citizen's arrest and waited for the police to arrive.
That puts the burden of legal liability on the manager and the shop, and that's something they don't want to have, so they never do it. It's too much of an OHS risk for them to expect in-store security to back them up, so they have the worst of both worlds: watching overt shoplifters walking out the door and embarrassing innocent customers, who do the right thing and don't run away when accosted.
Now the supermarkets round here have these LED-illuminated polycarbonate barriers that open and close depending on whether their FR system trusts you. Next time you see one of those, try going into the shop and leaving without buying anything. You will trigger an illegal imprisonment event.
Fortunately those can be bypassed by just pushing the barriers firmly enough to override the drive motors (not very hard). Civil disobedience based on being a law abiding free human in a society where people have rights, including freedom from arbitrary arrest, is the only sane response.
Never mind the circumvention bollocks. Trigger these things as often as you feel inclined. Push through anything that beeps at you or bars your way if you haven't done anything wrong. If anyone chases you and asks you to prove your innocence, insist they either arrest you or cease to be a nuisance. Be free. And don't shoplift.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
