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>>dsr12+(OP)
The timing of the release of this tool seems a bit innapropriate, given the state of rioting in a few US cities now. It's going to be incredibly draining on law enforcement in the US for a few years to identify and prosecute criminals involved in riots. Most victims already who have lost their homes, their businesses, and even their loved ones will mostly likely never see the criminals brought to justice given the scale of the violence.

It could be useful to protect people from relatiation under an authoritarian government, such as in Hong Kong. I dislike the idea of a government using mass automatic identification, that could be used again by authoritarians for terrible goals. I also dislike the idea of the opposite and using automatic anonymizing to protect criminals during riots. We're probably going to keep seeing an arms race in this, with good and bad actors on all sides.

>>hangph+Sl
> It's going to be incredibly draining on law enforcement in the US for a few years to identify and prosecute criminals involved in riots

Good. Black people factually live under an authoritarian regime in the US.

>>zouhai+3n
They should really have the right to vote!

>>giggle+0q
This comment is why it's important to be more precise than the word "authoritarian." We all live under an "authoritarian regime" to one degree or another.

The problem in this case is that its institutionally racist towards, and extrajudicially assassinates, black people with impunity.

We must be more precise because otherwise it allows _this_ to happen.