[Veggie Todd]

Just like that show “Person of Interest”.

[lee martell]

20 years ago, many of us laughed at the British for ‘allowing’ their government to post fixed cameras on every street corner. Now it’s here. We don’t ‘allow’ it as much as tolerate it. Perpetual Surveillance is the national trend.

[mass55th]

"In the USA, The Average American Is RECORDED 238 Times a Week!"

Well I hope they enjoy watching me walk back and forth to my bathroom all day.

[Chgogal]

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[Truthoverpower]

Nobody gives a shit about watching anybody else. They’re only into whose watching them. This is universal truth and why you should never worry about anyone watching what you’re doing

[cdcdawg]

I’m now kind of self conscious. I was at the grocery store today, and I’m certain that I scratched my genitalia when I thought I was alone in aisle 4. Pretty sure the cameras caught that. I don’t think I can come back from that. Damned cameras.

I jest, but they would lock me up for my thought crimes just from the time I get out of the car until I get a cart.

[LegendHasIt]

Yeah, but then the Kardashian / Jenner family alone increases that average by at least 10%.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

I am only mildlly surprised.

I would not have thought it was quite that high, but I am not shocked by being tracked 200+ times a week. So 40 times a day. Not that surprising.

I kind of chuckle at people trying to maintain their privacy. They have umpteen club cards that track all of their purchases and post everything about themselves on Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat. Send 50 unscrambled texts a day through the air. Carry their iPhone with them everywhere. Then make some half-hearted attempt at “privacy”.

I know that ship sailed long, long ago. We have no privacy. Your smart TV can spy on you, or your workstation, or smart phone, or your Alexa, your Ring doorbell or other smart security system.

WE HAVE NO PRIVACY. That horse left the barn at least since the Patriot Act was started.

Just act like you don’t have any and you will be fine.

Most people don’t realize how very close we are to 1984. Sometimes even I forget because so much of it is in the background and because I have become to used to seeing it there, I almost don’t see it at all. But it is everywhere.

And we are kept on thousands of databases that are constantly being sold to other business.

We have no privacy. It is over.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Never forget. The surveillance state and the police state go hand-in-hand. You can’t have one without the other. If you accept the surveillance state, you are going to have to accept a police state.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Any images of the Vegas shooter in the casino?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

If I’m being photographed, I want royalty payments. Why not? I’m a wild and crazy guy and should be paid for it.

Maybe the next moon they see won’t be in the sky.

[metmom]

Check out the ceiling of your local grocery store.

Or any other store for that matter.

They are all under those little gray bubbles lining the ceilings.

[Vermont Lt]

Seems a little light actually. I guess if you are living in a small town that might be accurate. But I know that I pass about 30 cameras walking from the parking lot to the main building. That’s 300 times a week just walking in and out of a workplace.

[FreedomPoster]

> “There’s strong evidence that many of the systems in deployment are reflecting and amplifying existing forms of inequality,”

WTH does that really mean?

[sauropod]

“Doorbell cameras. Like the ones surveilling the entire neighborhood without their consent.”

Oh please. Being filmed in a public space where there is no expectation of privacy. /eyeroll.

While i generally agree with the article, twit comments like this just ruin it.

[SheepWhisperer]

The REAL reason for 5G.
More surveillance

[Svartalfiar]

The software didn’t detect her face until she put on a white mask, she said, “because the people who coded the algorithm hadn’t taught it to identify a broad range of skin tones and facial structures.” The software returned worse results for women and darker-skinned persons.

How do you teach an algorithm to not recognize black people? This chick is an idiot and apparently doesn't know how facial identification works.

Computers are math based, they have to be. They take an image of a face, and convert it to vectors/pixels, which are then stuck into formulas to compare, mostly looking at differences in l,ight intensity from the image. Big differences in shading help identify a face: dark eyes, bright cheeks, dark mouth line. The problem with black people is that they don't have clearly discernible eyes/nose/mouth when you start doing this process. Slowly blur a bunch of different faces - the lighter the skin, the longer you'll still be able to make out a face as it gets blurrier and blurrier. This link explains some of the math. It help a lot if you're familiar with linear algebra. https://jeremykun.com/2011/07/27/eigenfaces/

[GOP Poet]

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