Realistically, there’s going to be no way to stop this. It’s too useful. It works and most people appreciate it. I know this because I have visited southern China recently. I’ve seen the train stations and coffee shops where people now think nothing of leaving their belongings completely unattended. This level of surveillance effectively makes petty crime impossible. It’s widely seen as progress, in a way it is progress, and there’s no going back.
The challenge remaining is to keep some level of democratic accountability over our governments. That’s feasible but it’s not going to be easy.
Smile, you are being protected.
“I’m convinced that good citizens are happy to be recorded and monitored.”
Depressing.Surveillance for you, no oversight for me.
like china?
Apparently this is using face recognition technology from Russia 🤷
Oh, so it’s like any major US city
With ring cameras, it’s every municipality
He says that, having already adopted the first two, he tackled the third: “When I have the Red Command, Amigos de Amigos (ADA), the PCC here…” he sighs, listing powerful organized crime groups, “as well as a situation in which a huge number of fugitives are roaming the city with impunity, it’s impossible for the police to be arresting everyone. The only way to remove them from circulation to protect society — and place them where [the justice system] has decided they should be — is through technology.”
Funny how a person that’s alledgedly related to PCC (organized crime) complains about them.
