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>>longde+(OP)
I’m not American, but isn’t the police about the only people you should ever trust (if any) with facial-recognition technology?

If you can’t trust your police with it, then there is something fundamentally wrong with your society.

>>moksly+P8
The police should not have access to that kind of tech regardless of country, IMHO.

>>dblohm+Ug
Why? Assuming we have a non-corrupt police force it is a great tool for finding criminals with warrants

>>shulta+0j
Such a police force only exists in fiction novels and on TV. It's not even just corruption that we have to be concerned about, it's just general incompetence - which exists in every facet of life. The problem is the police can arrest someone who has done nothing wrong and there are very few meaningful consequences. Once you are embroiled in the system, it is an expensive, slow process to get out of (if that's even possible.)