top | item 40480682

(no title)

ConsiderCrying | 1 year ago

It's perfectly reasonable to harvest thousands of photos of unknowing people and then accost them based on faulty software that can produce an erroneous match? How so?

discuss

order

swarnie|1 year ago

Nothing in OPs post said anything about accosting people or using faulty software to drive that interaction.

Simply going out looking for people of interest in east London is perfectly fine, we call it "police work" and have done it for bloody ages.

Maybe instead we could issue officers with a deck of cards with 52 faces on them and they can use that as a comparison point? Seems pretty inefficient to me but im only a tax paying pleb what would i know.

nmeagent|1 year ago

> Seems pretty inefficient to me

Police surveillance should be inefficient. People do not exist to be arbitrarily inspected at scale; it should be an expensive, manual process and you should be forced to choose carefully whom you target, by necessity keeping that list small and limited to those for whom you can articulate cause.