A Knock on the Window and a Glimpse of America's Surveillance Future

cdrnsf 20 points 1 comment March 04, 2026
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WarOnPrivacy

"What we’ve never seen before this year is a law enforcement agency putting face recognition technology on law enforcement agents’ phones out in the community and giving them unchecked power to stop people, pull them off the street, and start scanning their faces" "This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society that we have always professed to abhor here in the United States"

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