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Matthew Yglesias
@mattyglesias
This woman is very impressive but rather than use mentats for this, we ought be revisiting the restriction on police use of facial recognition software.
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Metro Transit Police
@MetroTransitPD
Officer K. Fields is known as a “super recognizer.” Now she’s being recognized for her impeccable photographic memory which has helped her identify more than 1,000 people, leading to numerous arrests. Watch the full story here: m.youtube.com/watch?si=5AU5y
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Byron Tau
@ByronTau
I'm unaware of any blanket restriction on police use of facial recognition, including in D.C. Some jurisdictions have restricted or banned it in response to pressure but there is nothing legally stopping Metro Transit Police from using it that I'm aware of.
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Hussain
@huspsa
The Glenn Greenwald/Edward Snowden era of crying about “mass surveillance” during the Obama years was a huge negative in hindsight. It’s obvious that surveillance powers for the police like what this woman can do with her mind, would cut crime.
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Robert Frommer
@Robert_Frommer
There are huge constitutional issues surrounding facial recognition technology, particularly when it comes to public surveillance (as opposed to like at the airport).
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Virriman
@Virriman
While I don’t like crime, I do think if we are identifying and catching too many Luigi Mangione style high profile criminals, it indicates that we are over-surveilled. When was the last time a crime with that level of profile went unsolved?
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Chasing Ennui
@rwlesq
I don't want the FBI reading my emails or cameras installed in my house, but I never really understood the hesitation to use technology to do things that police officers are allowed to do. If you can place a cop on a street corner, you should be able to place a camera there too.
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CXCarroll
@CXCarroll
@mattyglesias
what should be the threshold for facial recognition software to trigger an arrest? 90%? 95%? 99%? Should facial recognition alone be sufficient to arrest an individual?
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Ray Train
@RayTrainToTrop
They are using/will begin using facial recognition on Metro. As of June it has not been in use. Although I don’t think facial recognition is a good thing, at the very least with live video feeds. You’re just spying on everyone at that point.
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Ray Train
@RayTrainToTrop
I’m in favor of banning people but using AI to enforce it is not the way, @wmata.
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A Circle Can Be A Spiral, Alright x3
@circlespiral
LEOs are using FLOCK cams to ID cars by plate across the US, w/ access to one large database. A CA LEO can track a suspect's car in FL. No expectation of privacy. Faces probably aren't different. The questions: 1)how long data stored, 2) are queries logged for LEO accountability
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Randy Lazarus
@MarysRoommate
Id argue the idea of not leveraging massive computing power to investigative tools in order to avoid dystopia is actually an implicitly foundational value in civil liberties discourse
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osmarks
@osmarks1
It's very important that law enforcement be somewhat incompetent because I do not trust the government to define crime in a way I agree with in all circumstances.
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Mark Manger
@MarkManger
Especially because we already have complete surveillance but by companies like Meta for their own commercial interests only
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orochi235
@orochi235
I don't enjoy saying this, but our knee-jerk aversion to any tech that could even potentially be used for creepy purposes is just not going to be a viable long-term strategy, and causes blind spots even now
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Mihoda
@Mihoda
How we assess the false positive rates is most of the issue for facial recognition aoftware.
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Henry Lahman
@HenryLahman
The problem with facial recognition software wasn't the idea of matching photographs but interconnecting all sorts of cameras set up for other legitimate purposes creating a surveillance state, and concerns about efficacy in addition to privacy.
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