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Apparently men have to be tracked for safety reasons. (www.bbc.co.uk)
submitted 2 weeks ago by MasterBlaster@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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I find it alarming that to "protect" women, men have to be surveilled secretly in all public places. This is way beyond dystopian.

AI and remote security personnel get to decide if someone is "a predator" and take 'em down preemptively if they look suspicious.

What could possibly go wrong?

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[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 60 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

The UK is a dystopian shithole. They took 1984 and used it as an instruction manual.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

This is global. My town is installing Flock cameras to "stop dangerous speeding and red-light running". Never mind that it also is networked with every single other camera, reads license plates, and use AI to track people everywhere they go. There's no danger, though. That's just coincidence...

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If it helps, a lot of these stories don't go anywhere in the end.

CCTV cameras are a lot more accepted, but it's not as extreme as the media often makes it out to be.

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

The article shows how this tech is already in use in places like King's Cross.

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 1 points 1 week ago

Not really, it's just one wanna-be entrepeneur and a handful of knobheads wanting to implement it.

You wanna see dystopian shithole then check US news lmao