Western Australian Police to Use Live Facial-Recognition Tech at "Major Events" and "Crowded Areas" for the First Time

Don't worry guys its only for specific high-danger events like 'crowded areas', easy enough to avoid

Can someone destroy these Orwell devices already? ACAB

This is so fucking illegal on every single level. Can't we put these camera's in police agents' and politicians' homes? Let's see how much they love surveillance!

What the hell

Commission Blanch said it was not his "intent" for the technology to be used at protests "except if we have intelligence that there is a significant risk of someone seeking to do harm".

But he said that could be the case at the upcoming Land Forces defence expo, which Perth will host in October, if police had intelligence of a threat to that event

inb4 harm means Palantir top brass not being able to attend because there's protestors blockading the event

Asked about the cameras, opposition leader Basil Zempilas said he supported police having more tools to do their job.

“I’ve always had the view if you haven’t done anything wrong, you haven’t got anything to worry about, and I’m not sure it’s any different when it applies to this,” he said.

another dont thread on me shitlib licking the mass-surveillance boot at every opportunity

I feel like balaclavas are going to be in fashion within the next 10 years

Imma leave this here. Story about this tech at sports stadiums in the US. I kinda wish Australia would not be joining us in building out Orwellian panopticons.

Another incident saw a mother booted from a Rockettes show she was going to see with her 9 year old daughter, just because she worked for a law firm that had been involved with personal injury cases against a restaurant under the umbrella of MSG Entertainment. ..... Madison Square Garden isn’t the only example of excessive surveillance. It’s seemingly becoming less and less possible to exist in public without being constantly under watch.

This is worse than 1984