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Leak Shows ICE Planning to Use Facial Recognition Glasses to Identify Targets in Real Time (futurism.com)
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[–] ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The point is to absolve the human behind the arrest from responsibility. "The system" gets to do the decision making, then the human can't be responsible for making a mistake and arresting the wrong person.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

So we are doing “just following orders” again?

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

More the corporate "this was an unforseeable error in the system" that absolves themselves of any responsibility.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

It was, in fact, foreseen.