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> The government also insists the tech is independently tested at the National Physical Laboratory, which found the underlying algorithm to be accurate and free of age, gender, or ethnicity-related bias.

I feel so much better! /sarcasm

How tone deaf can they be?

Whenever there are serious privacy concerns about how this sort of technology, you have a statement like attached. It doesn't address what people are worried about. They never directly address it.

>>extrai+(OP)
The vast majority of newspaper articles/videos about this tech relate to innocent black people being flagged.

Racism is certainly the biggest concern of the media, which may or may not reflect the publics general concern.

>>extrai+(OP)
Well there had been system with very high rates of false positives for certain ethnicities which if wide scale deployed would in effect be like systematic harassment of this people.

So it is a thing people which in general are okay with mass surveillance might worried about.

And convincing the people you have a chance to convince is much more useful the pointlessly trying to convince the people which anyway won't like what you do no matter what you say.

>>dathin+fF
It reads more like something to appease some media outlets and activist groups than the general public.

>>epanch+5c
I was listening to an interview with Dominic Cummings while walking this evening. It was about two hours long. I don't really know what to make of Dominic Cummings, I did think it would be interesting to hear his perspective.

During the interview he explained how many people in the government essentially wanted to please their own, which includes their own class of people (city people essentially) and the media. He said that ministers were much more worried about how media was covering them, than anything else.

The same people essentially see see the normal general public and people like myself as criminal. They see us a criminal because by in large much of the general public and people like myself don't agree with them.

This sort of statement is very "on brand" if what he said is true.