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Q: The story of one woman whom I will call ‘Anna’ gives a chilling insight into how Facewatch’s surveillance system works. Anna is a quiet woman in her sixties with physical health problems. She was taken to the shops by her adult children several months ago, when she was picked out and stopped by staff who told her to leave. When she asked why, security refused to tell her but said she had been flagged by their facial recognition cameras and the system said she was banned. The family were escorted out and shown a tiny sticker on the store’s entrance – obscured by racks of garden plants – indicating that Facewatch’s facial recognition was in operation.
With the support of her children, Anna contacted Facewatch to ask why she had been blacklisted. For her request to even be processed, she had to send a legal ‘Subject Access Request’ to the company with copies of her photo ID. Given that the company had already covertly taken and misused photos of her, this seemed like an absurd and insulting demand, yet it was a legal requirement to find out what data they held on her.
It turned out that a security guard had suspected her of taking goods from a store worth £1 – a mere £1 – some weeks earlier and had then added her photo to the database. When asked if the company had any video evidence of the alleged incident, the answer was no. Anna says that’s because it never happened. It certainly would be out of character for a lady in her sixties to launch a criminal career by taking an item worth so little from a shop where she regularly spends considerable amounts.
Nevertheless, Facewatch insists she is a legitimate target of their hi-tech system and that she will remain blacklisted from this retailer and other shops in the area that use its surveillance system. Anna doesn’t know where she can and can’t go without risking the public humiliation of being flagged by facial recognition cameras and accused of being a thief. She is stuck in limbo: treated like a criminal and with no ability to prove her innocence.
#tech #privacy
"Google essentially disappeared us from the internet," says the couple who created price-comparison site Foundem in 2006. Google's search results for "price comparison" and "comparison shopping" buried their site — for more than three years.
#consumer
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#Nuclear power is dependable. That's why theyre horny for it.
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NH and Montana? Unexpected.
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NH and Montana? Unexpected.
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America: Your clock is ticking.
You have about one to one and a half decade to get your shit together to transition away from hydrocarbons to a predominantly electrical energy infrastructure before your time is up.
Expensive imported energy will be the death of your nation. Get to work.
#us #energy #policy
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I'm not the government. *I'm* telling you that you're stuck with a scarce resource and the horizon on that technology is approaching.
In any case if you're in America, you'll learn for yourself automatically, and you'll be saddled with your decision to take the issue seriously or not. Your choice.
Solar & wind are not depleted on use and nuclear energy is in reality not depleted if you get breeder reactors online.
By the way the reason the US currently energy independent is that the us government created the shale oil boom. This, the primary reason you're not experienced enerhy scarcity is... *Government Intervention*.
America: Your clock is ticking.
You have about one to one and a half decade to get your shit together to transition away from hydrocarbons to a predominantly electrical energy infrastructure before your time is up.
Expensive imported energy will be the death of your nation. Get to work.
#us #energy #policy
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Protip:
Loyalty to a company only pays off if you have a personal customer or service representative that you can use as a bargaining chip when you want your price or service level adjusted.
If you're using a product/service that you just sign up for on a web page, you're usually better off regularly shopping around for better deals.
#consumer #protip
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Don't get too involved in #politics unless you're planning on standing for public office.
There's some things you can't change in this world, and politics is part of that.
Maintain your sanity.
#wisdom
Curbing hostile regime puppets is fine, but how do they differentiate between eg. Russian/Chinese sockpuppets and regular domestic people that merely have unpopular/non-mainstream opinions? That's what I want to know.
#comms
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Very large pill.
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Schools generally don't teach budgeting & household economics either. A lot of people could benefit from that.
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I've noticed that this has started to come to public attention fairly recently as a significant difference between people and it's apparently been overlooked for most of human history.... 😳
#psych
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I've noticed that this has started to come to public attention fairly recently as a significant difference between people and it's apparently been overlooked for most of human history.... 😳
#psych
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My guess is that her Art & Poetry sucks ass.
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Communism is the opium of retards that purport to be intellectual and progressive.
#politics
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LAGA DYGA!!!
OMG I LOVE LAGA DYGA!! 😫
#lol
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TWO WEEKS 😁
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