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Facial recognition to be rolled out nationwide in major police reforms (www.standard.co.uk)
submitted 18 hours ago by ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34575435

It is kinda nuts that the alleged warnings of the past were just priming us into thinking it is all ok for them to do.

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[โ€“] Unquote0270@programming.dev 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The problem is there is more than one branch of it happening at once. We have this stuff but we also have the far right politics which is much more blatant. What most of those morons don't understand is that their movement is driving the justification for these overbearing technology changes yet are the first ones to cry about it.

[โ€“] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 13 hours ago

This is the same problem that we had in the US. Neoliberalism will always lead to fascism since it breeds the economic hardship that causes fascism or revolt, and the powerful are able to tilt the scale away from revolt towards fascism, which is their preference.

The solution is to take over the more left party by any means necessary since the UK, much like the US, has a FPTP voting system. In the US, the Democrats were consistently able to rig their primaries against the more leftist candidates through a multi-level strategy. Don't let that happen over there.

Trump is a symptom of a greater problem in the US.