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Surveillance laws tend to gradually expand and very, very rarely get rolled back.

Once the database is there, someone will bring up the proposal to apply it to some CCTV cameras. That will be shot down. Then someone will bring it up a few years later. Then a few years later it will actually happen. Then it will be slowly expanded.

> And I think anyone who has played with a face recognition algorithm will agree that it cannot be used as evidence in court.

Hope the court sees it the same.



If it's all as inevitable as the tides, what is there to argue about?


The more pushback against each step, the less quickly this happens.




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