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xplorer - I would think that if not currently, it will be expanded to all visitors. It’s not logical to only apply it to certain categories.
In any case I’m not objecting to the regulations per se. My point is just that the whole reason for China falling foul of the West are precisely these kind of practices.

I've been to the US several times prior to the introduction of these practices as I love visiting.

Should they affect me as a tourist in the future, I will probably consider going somewhere else.


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Saw this on bbc and confirmed it on other sites. I can imagine that many tourists or commercial travelers will not visit the US not because they have anything to hide but simply don’t want to have everything about them monitored by big brother.
The ironic thing is that the type of people for which this regulation is being put in place (eg hardened criminals or terrorists) will know how to avoid it!

If people really cared about these types of privacy issues they would delete things like Facebook off their phones, but they don't because it's more important to have Facebook. Sure some people might not come, but others still will. Anyway anybody remember the laptop ban that the US was going to implement on all flights coming to the US? How many people from the UK didn't come to the US because of that? Probably zero as people from the UK weren't affected. While I obviously am concerned with headline like this, and worry that we do move closer and closer to a police state, I honestly think that what companies like Google are doing is already far worse, but people don't care.

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Facial recognition advances.

Now some airlines are offering it (on a voluntary basis) for flight check-in. TSA is applying it for visa checks. Etc.

I think there is no way to stop this from moving forward. It's just too damn convenient. Who likes waiting in lines?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/10/your-face-is-now-your-boarding-pass-thats-problem/?utm_term=.fb06626da9ba&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

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Initially it may be a choice, short convenient line, or long slow line, but eventually TSA could (probably will) mandate it. Then your choice becomes to fly or not to fly!

On a similar subject once we do get autonomous cars, I think there success will be driven in a similar way. Do you want to be in the fast non-congested lane or do you want to sit in traffic forever!

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This is an excerpt from this months police chiefs community newsletter/email where I live.
The testing of a single Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) system has been working very well. The single ALPR has been found to be a very useful tool for our officers and detectives. The ALPR thus far, has identified stolen vehicles, stolen license plates, vehicles involved in other high-profile crimes and even a sex offender. At this weeks Police Commission meeting, the Commission voted that XXX should expand the testing by obtaining additional ALPR and expanding the size of the test. We will be presenting a request to the city councils over the next few weeks to consider a larger scale test of the technology (20 Units) to assist our officers and detectives even more. The use of ALPR technology works in the background, and only identifies and notifies law enforcement personnel of wanted vehicles that are already in both State and National Data bases. We hope that the expanded testing will further validate the usefulness of this type of equipment and make the Villages an even safer place to live.

The long-term goal is that once we have additional systems in place, and after further validation, that the XXX could allow additional ALPR’s (individual neighborhoods, associations, and streets) to obtain their own systems and link them to the XXX. This would help compliment what we call a “layered” public safety effect. Starting with individual home alarm and video systems, doorbell cameras, neighborhood ALPR’s and village ALPR’s. You combine these layers along with XXX programs such as house watches and no soliciting registrations, our proactive patrols and detective use of crime scene investigative best practices and we will have a very strong, upper hand against crime.. Please let me know your thoughts at XXX

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Thanks @SMCJB.

As you probably know, there is a similar system in the UK (ANPR which stands for Automatic Number Plate Recognition).

On one hand I can see how it makes life easier for law-enforcement. On the other, there's always potential for abuse.

As bobwest once said, it is up to the various communities to shape how in the future any such technology is used, and not misused.

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Think twice before buying your next smartphone.

A Motorola Solutions patent application published on July 4 lays out a method for tracking and identifying customers who frequently change their mobile devices. Why? Well, that would be because individuals who use more than an unspecified number of phones are "potential criminals" — at least according to Motorola.

The patent application, which was initially filed in 2016, is shocking in its level of presumption and, frankly, creepiness.

"During operation, a server continuously receives facial recognition data for individuals along with device IDs detected at the time the facial recognition data was obtained," reads the application. "Devices associated with the individual are determined. This process is repeated and a determination is made as to whether the devices associated with the individual have changed."

Just in case anyone was in any way confused, the application adds that "[an] individual that frequently changes devices will be identified as suspicious."

While it stands to reason that those up to no good might switch phones frequently in order to avoid being tracked, so might journalists, human rights workers, or members of various at-risk communities. Developing technology meant to track and identify those individuals raises numerous privacy questions this patent application makes no serious attempt at addressing.




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This article is exactly what is disturbing about new uses of technology that mine individual information:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/07/07/fbi-ice-find-state-drivers-license-photos-are-gold-mine-facial-recognition-searches/?utm_term=.3356c0d27fa7&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

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Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have turned state driver’s license databases into a facial-recognition gold mine, scanning through millions of Americans’ photos without their knowledge or consent, newly released documents show.

Thousands of facial-recognition requests, internal documents and emails over the past five years, obtained through public-records requests by researchers with Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology and provided to The Washington Post, reveal that federal investigators have turned state departments of motor vehicles databases into the bedrock of an unprecedented surveillance infrastructure.

Police have long had access to fingerprints, DNA and other “biometric data” taken from criminal suspects. But the DMV records contain the photos of a vast majority of a state’s residents, most of whom have never been charged with a crime.

Neither Congress nor state legislatures have authorized the development of such a system, and growing numbers of Democratic and Republican lawmakers are criticizing the technology as a dangerous, pervasive and error-prone surveillance tool.

From a tech point of view, this is entirely reasonable -- the fact that it can be done means it will be done. From the standpoint that personal data should belong to the person concerned (and this definitely includes what your face looks like in a stored photo), this is not reasonable at all.

There are some limits that need to be applied here.

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From a tech point of view, this is entirely reasonable -- the fact that it can be done means it will be done. From the standpoint that personal data should belong to the person concerned (and this definitely includes what your face looks like in a stored photo), this is not reasonable at all.

There are some limits that need to be applied here.

Bob.

Perhaps I'm biased but I have this eerie feeling that we are slowly but steadily sleepwalking into a global surveillance society.


There will be those who oppose it, surely, but it will be the minority.

Not talking conspiracy theories here, it's more, as you say, because it can be done, so it will be done.

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