Why is it that so many US prosecutors so often violate the rights of the accused by making trials unfair? Perhaps it's because the Supreme Court has barred them from being sued for such illegalities.
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Why is it that so many US prosecutors so often violate the rights of the accused by making trials unfair? Perhaps it's because the Supreme Court has barred them from being sued for such illegalities.
Even if we stop thug departments from putting weapons on robots, some robots will endanger human rights in other ways. This article suggests some rules to limit use of robots by thug departments.
The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I denounce bigotry, and normally I will not link to articles that promote it. But I make exceptions for some articles that I consider particularly important. That article is one of the exceptions.
Right-wing extremist candidates combine racism and disinformation with promises to help the poor (but excluding poor blacks and poor immigrants).
Radio City Music Hall decided in advance to exclude certain people from its shows, and sent bouncers to get one from a show, and identified her through facial recognition.
The reason they did not want her to watch the show is that she is a lawyer that works for a law firm that is handling someone's a legal dispute with the operators of Radio City Music Hall.
In addition to being a bizarre overreaction, it demonstrates why we need to ban the practice of identifying people by their faces, outside of very limited circumstances.
However, the crucial step in the chain of surveillance is not the step of matching the face in a picture against a database. Rather, it is systematically collecting images of people (whether video or still) that could be used to identify people. That is what we need to prohibit. We must prohibit surveillance cameras and allow only security cameras.