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Bernie Sanders Calls for a Ban on Police Use of Facial Recognition

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday August 20 2019, @12:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the and-then? dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd

The proposal is part of Sanders' broader plan for police reform.

Wait, they used WOODY HARRELSON as a template? And I'm not sure why facial recognition is the focus here, when I feel that the end of providing military equipment to police forces is much more impactful a change.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/19/20812032/bernie-sanders-facial-recognition-police-ban-surveillance-reform

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday August 20 2019, @03:42PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 20 2019, @03:42PM (#882631) Journal

    There's a middle ground between "total surveillance of everyone everywhere" and "total ban on this technology."

    Sometimes it is impossible to come to any kind of middle ground due to lack of trust of the other position.

    Let me plug a couple different variables into your statement:

    There's a middle ground between "total ban on any and all firearms" and "give every crazy person all the weapons they want with no limitations on how powerful they are."

    You see it is not so easy to find a reasonable middle ground. So one of the polar extremes is going to end up as the ultimate result. Or depending on which way the wind blows, we will shift between both extremes, because no compromise can be permitted. And I mean surveillance too. There probably are some reasonable uses of it.

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