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Comment by matz1 | Hacker News Reader

>The problem is automated identification of faces

Whats the problem with this ?

I had a dream a few months ago where I was standing in front of a computer. I typed in my name and got back a stream of video which showed every single moment of my life from multiple angles starting from the moment I was born. The footage came from a variety of sources, CCTV, smartphone cameras, dashcams. The system had videos of everything anyone had ever done. I didn't like it. Found it kind of disturbing.

Fortunately, we can stop that from being a reality.

Then basically you says its boil down to matter of subjective preference. So you don't like it, fine fair enough then don't be surprised that other people may like it.

I don't say that? You just have to think about how this stuff is going to be used in the real world where we actually live. The thing which is objectively disturbing is how easy it is to lose control of one's life once the government is able to record, observe and judge every single thing a person does. I believe such a level of transparency is only beneficial when it's applied to people who hold power over others; to subject everyone in a society to that kind of scrutiny would just be laying the foundations for abuse.

The government simply record, observe and judge every single thing a person does is not problem, in fact it can be used for my benefit.

The problem is when they use it to harm me.

What need to be fixed is The government record, observe and judge every single thing a person does to harm people.

>to subject everyone in a society to that kind of scrutiny would just be laying the foundations for abuse

It can be used for abuse but not always, It can also be used for good, what need to be prevented is the use for abuse.

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