• agingelderly@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    It’s my theory that they want to give ice cameras so they can more easily record the protesters’ faces without having to take out their phones since they are making some sort of database.

    • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      17 hours ago

      The company that makes the cameras (Axon, they also make tasers) has a whole web service for sharing the cam videos. So it’s already going to computers that can run facial recognition. I mean, that exists now. Of course more data means more protesters profiled.

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        5 hours ago

        Strap some IR LED lights and a small battery and toggle to your glasses.

        Decent chance your face is now is big white blob to many cameras.

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        12 hours ago

        Axon tried to recruit me to make payload drones that definitely won’t be used to drop grenades and “definitely” won’t be sold to US police and paramilitary to drop chemical weapons on civilians because it is “against their company values” (the company that tazes each other as an initiation rite).

        I was debating on doing it to try to make everything work as badly as possible and learn how to make civilian countermeasures, but I ended up telling them to go fuck themselves and that they were liars, in no uncertain terms.