Western Australian Police to Use Live Facial-Recognition Tech at "Major Events" and "Crowded Areas" for the First Time (www.abc.net.au)
from freedickpics@lemmy.ml to privacy@lemmy.ml on 23 Jun 06:09
https://lemmy.ml/post/49116564

A marked police van will be used outside major events or in crowded areas to live scan the faces of people walking past, in an Australian first.

The faces of people will be matched against a database of people with outstanding arrest warrants and registered child sex offenders, as well as missing persons.

“This is not about mass surveillance,” [the police commissioner] said, “This is about specifying those in our community who are wanted by police.”

While the trial only includes one marked van, the police commissioner is not ruling out further covert technology being used in the future, including at protests.

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freedickpics@lemmy.ml on 23 Jun 06:11 next collapse

Don’t worry guys its only for specific high-danger events like ‘crowded areas’, easy enough to avoid

racoon@lemmy.ml on 23 Jun 07:35 collapse

The database doesn’t even include religious affiliation!

magnue@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 06:18 next collapse

I feel like balaclavas are going to be in fashion within the next 10 years

BonkTheAnnoyed@piefed.blahaj.zone on 23 Jun 16:34 next collapse

Groucho Marx masks, fursonas, wax candy lips, infra-red disco ball earrings…

FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jun 21:43 collapse

They’ll just follow France and ban those too.

eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 23 Jun 06:37 next collapse

What the hell

mydude@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 09:32 next collapse

This is worse than 1984

birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 23 Jun 10:34 next collapse

Can someone destroy these Orwell devices already? ACAB

This is so fucking illegal on every single level. Can’t we put these camera’s in police agents’ and politicians’ homes? Let’s see how much they love surveillance!

zeezee@slrpnk.net on 23 Jun 17:28 next collapse

Commission Blanch said it was not his “intent” for the technology to be used at protests “except if we have intelligence that there is a significant risk of someone seeking to do harm”.

But he said that could be the case at the upcoming Land Forces defence expo, which Perth will host in October, if police had intelligence of a threat to that event

inb4 harm means Palantir top brass not being able to attend because there’s protestors blockading the event

Asked about the cameras, opposition leader Basil Zempilas said he supported police having more tools to do their job.

“I’ve always had the view if you haven’t done anything wrong, you haven’t got anything to worry about, and I’m not sure it’s any different when it applies to this,” he said.

another dont thread on me shitlib licking the mass-surveillance boot at every opportunity