• michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Notably the risks aren’t simply that this will identify the undocumented its that it will provide a pretext to disappear almost anyone who isn’t white.

    The question is does any given non-white person look enough like one of over 10M people to get falsely flagged given agents a pretext to remove almost anyone they stop. Facial recognition of one person against a large enough database will almost always provide at least on possible match this is especially true if it matches against possible aliens and not against possibly aliens and citizens. EG a query of both will likely turn up Betty Sue Smith is herself and maybe a possible match with Known Deportable but a search against only aliens may return only Known Deportable with agents dismissing any claim by Betty that her ID must be fake.

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      14 days ago

      it will provide a pretext to disappear almost anyone who isn’t white.

      Pretty sure you don’t need a.i. glasses to figure out what colour someone is.

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        12 days ago

        You use AI glasses which claim to identify aliens because you can use its constant false positives to pretend to be following the law.