This allows the government to continue neglecting existing networks like social services and community policing, which are the bits that actually need reinforcing.
Also, lumping the rest of us in with terrorists and mass-murderers dilutes the pool of intelligence that has to be sifted through. No doubt they are anticipating ‘AI’ will solve this problem.
What could possibly go wrong.
PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml
on 13 Jan 2026 23:31
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It’s almost as if they’re seeking to replace these with technology. They’ve purposefully neglected social services and will continue to do so, to lower the bar for AI and grant themselves an excuse for the poor “substitute”. And this isn’t at all restricted to the UK, in The Netherlands we’re in the midst of it too: the same exact playbook. Modern surveillance cameras (like Axis’ for example) have NPU’s built in, or camera footage (even from legacy analog cameras, by use of encoders) is linked to either an onsite server, a cloud-service, or a combination of the two, facilitating the functionality. I hardly believe AI to be the limiting factor here, storage of footage is another story however. But I think they instead strategically place facial-recognition cameras, while the other cameras simply store abstractions from the footage. Of course if one of those cameras senses an event, which it recognizes might be of elevated relevance, it might store the raw footage. An example being: railways doing face-scanning for “depression detection”, instead of implementing ‘platform screen doors’ of course…
unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml
on 13 Jan 2026 20:39
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Britain is clearly speedrunning becoming Airstrip one
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The government knows it’s unpopular, to the point where they feel the need to shove their policy through by force and crush dissent
I’m sure that will go well…😑
Another angle:
This allows the government to continue neglecting existing networks like social services and community policing, which are the bits that actually need reinforcing.
Also, lumping the rest of us in with terrorists and mass-murderers dilutes the pool of intelligence that has to be sifted through. No doubt they are anticipating ‘AI’ will solve this problem.
What could possibly go wrong.
It’s almost as if they’re seeking to replace these with technology. They’ve purposefully neglected social services and will continue to do so, to lower the bar for AI and grant themselves an excuse for the poor “substitute”. And this isn’t at all restricted to the UK, in The Netherlands we’re in the midst of it too: the same exact playbook. Modern surveillance cameras (like Axis’ for example) have NPU’s built in, or camera footage (even from legacy analog cameras, by use of encoders) is linked to either an onsite server, a cloud-service, or a combination of the two, facilitating the functionality. I hardly believe AI to be the limiting factor here, storage of footage is another story however. But I think they instead strategically place facial-recognition cameras, while the other cameras simply store abstractions from the footage. Of course if one of those cameras senses an event, which it recognizes might be of elevated relevance, it might store the raw footage. An example being: railways doing face-scanning for “depression detection”, instead of implementing ‘platform screen doors’ of course…
Britain is clearly speedrunning becoming Airstrip one
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“Precrime”
“predictive policing”
AKA what they accuse aUtHoRiTaRiAn countries like China of.
Great article! “education” … “risk assessments” … “early intervention” … Got to break their spirit while they’re young
Maybe they should try dealing with post-crime first.