Content warning: speculation and discussion about dystopianism, US fascism, mass surveillanceAfter ICE murdered Alex Pretti, it became known that he'd had a run in with ICE a week earlier, which was documented as he went to the ER for a broken rib courtesy of ICE. Knowing the prior interaction, the question arose as to how spontaneous the killing of Alex Pretti was. Was a decision to capture or kill him issued, on the day of his murder, as soon as he was recognized by the surveillance apparatus, before any ICE agent interacted with him?

Based on what this article about 2020 Russian technology used in Iran suggests, I'm more convinced the killing of Alex Pretti was more pre-meditated. My fears of facial recognition in general are pretty piqued after reading this

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[–] 13 points 8 months ago

Oh are flock and palantir double dipping now?

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  • [–] 45 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    Cool. Now tell the story about similar technologies used by the nations invading Iran

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    This is widely documented in hundred of articles?

    From what I personally read about alone, from the first of February you will find Israeli media outlets reporting on Police Operating 6,600 Cameras in Public Spaces Nationwide (Israel Police are operating a massive surveillance network, connecting thousands of cameras from various sources. And there are plans for a significant expansion of 5,000 more cameras, including controversial facial recognition capabilities that have not been authorized by legislation.).

    It's not the lack of documentation, it's the lack of attention to that.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    This is widely documented in hundred of articles?

    A reasonable article would acknowledge that this

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    They are doing a long investigation involving Iran. Why would they mention Israel?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Perhaps because THAT IS WITH WHOM THEY'RE CURRENTLY AT WAR WITH???

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  • [–] [S] -3 points 8 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (4 children)

    I think journalistic integrity would have the author at least mention that this isn't unique to Iran, and that both the US and Israel are doing essentially the same thing.

    "Israel and the United States are performing similar surveillance, but in this investigation, we focus specifically on how Iran does it."

    Look, that simple.

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Why the actual fuck would they do that?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    As I said, journalistic integrity.

    I guess that's not a thing anymore huh...

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Which is great news if you’re a Mossad agent tasked with figuring out a target’s life patterns

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    They're working their way towards being as bad as we are! and they aren't as good at marketing to try to convince people it's to find lost dogs.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    The timing is fishy

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    Yes, lets all shitpost US/West sponsored propaganda about Iran, as the two biggest Psycho nations attacks it for no reason what so ever. And 'coincidentally' at the time where the orange buffoon scream about "oppressed Iranians" in a lame attempt at creating a new fake color-revolution.

    "The Eyes of Iran partners: Le Monde, Paper Trail Media, Der Spiegel, Der Standard, Tamedia et ZDF. 
In collaboration with The Signals Network." - NONE of those EU papers have anything to do with 'truth' or 'journalism', and anyone 'partnering' with them are the exact same lying SOB's..

    Why on Earth would anyone repost this blatant propaganda garbage at this particular time ?!?

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Is this supposed to make it okay that we bombed Iran in violation of our own constitution, and took out a school full of little girls in the process?

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  • [–] [S] -5 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Where exactly does it say that?

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Wow, you really do think your target audience is stupid.

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  • [+] [S] -6 points 8 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Neither did you, and I asked first.

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  • [+] [S] -6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I feel like I am talking to AI bot.

    Talk and discuss normally or keep repeating your words like a broken robot. The choice is yours.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago

    My initial comment was a question which, for the third reply in a row, you have refused to answer. I haven't repeated a damn thing and I resent you trying to duck out of answering by asking stupid counter-questions and accusing me of being a bot.

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    [–] 37 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    Lmao, i mean yes this is bad but its still funny how this contrasts against coverage of countries like Germany and the UK doing the exact same thing to suppress dissent. Rules for thee but not me.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    The saddest thing about your comment is that you really appear to think it's true.

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago*

    The UK is literally covered in surveillance cameras. There is a new story every other day of people being wrongfully accused because of false positives from facial recognition and behavior detection systems. How is this not "secretly monitoring citizens in real time"? Explain please.

    Not to mention that this tech is obviously also being used against protesters that took part in Palestine Action events. In the UK you go to a protest and the next morning 5 cops stand infront of your door to arrest you despite you never identifying yourself to anyone. How do you think that works? Fucking real time surveillance systems.

    They are also planning to allow Palantir to access all their raw healthcare data.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    Manufacture that consent!

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    [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Oh, apparently it's totally fine if the U.S. has the same technology we use to put people guilty of a misdemeanor, or nothing at all in concentration camps while bypassing due process and legal representation, but Iran? Oh fuck, we better throw a fit about that. Does everyone in charge have some kind of dark triad personality disorder?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Sweet NOW we get the propaganda to persuade the public to bomb Iran /s

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    [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    So FindFace like a less powerful Palantir tool which is used by other governments like US or UK?

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