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Panich52

(5,829 posts)
Mon Jul 13, 2015, 10:18 AM Jul 2015

Opinion: Stop treating citizens like consumers (face recognition)

Al Jazeera

Opinion: Stop treating citizens like consumers
http://alj.am/1UFwGey

Two weeks ago, the American Civil Liberties Union, Consumer Watchdog and seven other advocacy groups announced that they were withdrawing from the Commerce Department’s talks over disagreements about the commercial use of facial recognition technology. Their withdrawal — a walkout protest, really — occurred after 16 months of good-faith efforts to create a voluntary code of conduct governing the technology.

Read more:  No room for compromise or discussion?
http://aljazeera.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38ffd892c93e55497901185c8&id=4569554a70&e=a4f8e71df5

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Opinion: Stop treating citizens like consumers (face recognition) (Original Post) Panich52 Jul 2015 OP
NSA my ass-- Google, Amazon, and... TreasonousBastard Jul 2015 #1

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
1. NSA my ass-- Google, Amazon, and...
Mon Jul 13, 2015, 10:56 AM
Jul 2015

a few others are the real threats.

These fuckers already track us through our phones, cars and computers and are just dying to stick a chip up our asses at birth so we can never get away from them.



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