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The NFL wants to use facial recognition at games. Police say it's a bad idea (www.npr.org)

submitted 2 months ago by HailSeitan@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The cops object when their tools on turned on them

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[–] would_be_appreciated@lemmy.ml 80 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The AP article for those that don't want to listen: https://apnews.com/article/raiders-nfl-vegas-police-allegiant-stadium-5239b9962c23a6512fa2f694add9b9ea

The highlight for me is this:

The Las Vegas Police Protective Association, with the backing of the department, said they are concerned such technology compromises the officers’ privacy.

It's worth noting they're only doing this for workers, not for attendees. The police would presumably by fine with it if it were just attendees and not workers, because it wouldn't include them.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ok, good. I thought I was the only one who saw this connection. It's not that the police are against facial recog or that they don't want the NFL or anyone else to use it, it's that they're aware of the privacy degradation it causes, and don't want themselves (the police workers of the event) subjected to it. It's fine if we, the attendees, are subjected to it, just not them. Oh, what a world.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yup, cause, once again, fuck the people.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They forget that they are also the people, and all they're doing is helping the corpos gain more power (make no mistake, the governments are a front for the corpos).

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but they're "special people," not subject to the same rules as the peons, even though they'd be tossed aside for private security should shit go down. God dammit lol

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 points 2 months ago

"special people" until they're not haha

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Front/right arm/all of one.

I mean we had the Dutch East Indies Corp doing it's thing 300 years ago. It's not really new, and it's frustrating people don't see it.

[–] Woht24@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The old adage 'why do you care if you've got nothing to hide?' comes to mind

[–] Steve@communick.news 56 points 2 months ago (2 children)

they say giving their biometric data to an unaccountable company crosses a line.

The company is unaccountable‽
That's some projection.

[–] SaintWacko@midwest.social 14 points 2 months ago

Nice interrobang!

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ironic that cops love facial recognition when it's not pointed at them, but all of a sudden it's an issue when they're subject to it.

[–] Steve@communick.news 4 points 2 months ago

Hypocritical for sure.
Not really unexpected, so not ironic.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Dear cops: Oh now we worry about unchecked power and lack of oversight in the deployment of surveillance technology? Please. May as well join the surveillance dystopia with the rest of us, you helped usher it in. Tell me again about your robot dogs and your Stingray devices why don't you.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Don't forget their fucking tanks. Smh.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Las Vegas police are refusing to comply with the NFL’s new plan to use facial recognition technology for stadium employees during games. Even though police often use facial recognition to identify suspects, they say giving their biometric data to an unaccountable company crosses a line.

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are they implying the police are accountable for anything?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 2 months ago

Yes... Said a man tapping on the gun and the badge...

You got something you gonna do about it?

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And now I'll never go to a game again. Fuck'em.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 14 points 2 months ago

The bigger issue is not enough people care for it to make a difference.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 20 points 2 months ago

You're not wrong, Walter, you're just an asshole.

[–] moreeni@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago

Every state wants a monopoly on violence. The more powerful the state, the less there are entities that could opress you except the state itself. So it's not unexpected that the cops would object to have a "competitor" with facial recognition technology