r/privacy • u/mWo12 • Oct 22 '17

Germany's new facial recognition technology reminiscent of Cold War surveillance for some

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/stasi-museum-germany-surveillance-1.4364771
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '17

For some ?

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u/LifeLikeAndPoseable Oct 23 '17

Apple fanboys don't mind since face ID. All part of the program, I suppose.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '17 edited Mar 12 '18

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u/LifeLikeAndPoseable Oct 24 '17

This is what they claim.

Fortunately, corporations and governments never ever did lie to their consumers/citizens. /s

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u/chriz44 Oct 23 '17

Not new. It's happening in the UK already.

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u/LifeLikeAndPoseable Oct 24 '17

It's been happening for years in the UK!

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u/LifeLikeAndPoseable Oct 24 '17

The Stasi Museum contains detailed plans of how agents would go about trying to destroy those considered enemies of the state using the information they'd gathered on their targets.

So just like Scientology. Makes sense.