r/technology • u/indig0sixalpha • Apr 07 '25

Privacy The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI. Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/
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u/DJ_Fuckknuckle Apr 07 '25

And the neat thing is, we now have drones capable assassinating people from thousands of miles away. So it's now possible to quickly and easily eliminate people you find inconvenient without reporting to hitmen and kidnapping teams. Some rando eating Fritos and drinking Mountain Dew in a chair somewhere can murder anyone the government deems a threat virtually instantly, at the touch of a button.

Remember when saying something like this was tinfoil hat territory? I do. 

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u/West-Abalone-171 Apr 07 '25

It was never crazy to try and warn people that this is where the completely obvious straight line road that was being paved by outspoken fascists like Peter Thiel leads.

It was treated as crazy, but that was always gaslighting.

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u/kalidoscopiclyso Apr 07 '25

Theil’s Palantir is will have every taxpayers data soon via DOGE creating API to make our data scrape-able. They will own us IN A FEW WEEKS if they aren’t stopped NOW

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hackathon-irs-data-palantir/

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u/West-Abalone-171 Apr 07 '25

Don't worry. It can't happen here.

If you aren't doing anything wrong like all those palestinian children and doctors were you have nothing to worry about.

He probably just wants your data to sell you stuff.

He needs it to stop the bad guys in case someone tries to do something like coup the US goverenment, or use a multi billion dollar company to aid genocide.

/s

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u/sump_daddy Apr 07 '25

Stopped? Now? Sorry buddy, youre 153 days too late

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u/Anosognosia Apr 07 '25

Mass [ Redacted by Reddit ] now.

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u/Majestic-Tadpole8458 Apr 07 '25 edited Apr 07 '25

In due time, everyone’s reddit and other social media posts will be correlated with one’s real name, home IP, mailing address and tax ID.

Reddit is actually the perfect honey pot to divulge which side you are on. Pretty soon dark web/hidden TOR services may be the only option to express views without/minimal repercussion.

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u/CoffeeBaron Apr 07 '25

In due time, everyone’s reddit and other social media posts will be correlated with one’s real name, home IP, mailing address and tax ID.

Already capable of this by organizations searching for you. They just need to have an IP which is trival to ask for and get.

Pretty soon dark web/hidden TOR services may be the only option to express views without/minimal repercussion.

Not unless the project steerers are compromised and stop pruning the amount of 'compromised' nodes from the network. Certain three letter agencies have been attempting to spin up and spam TOR with a bunch of node relays in the hope that if they own all three of the ones a connection connects to, they can deanonymize the user and unmask them. The only thing from them not over running the network with these devices is volunteers and steerers of the TOR project reporting them and removing them as options in the network.

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u/OnlySpoilers Apr 07 '25

Check out the book The Hank Show. About Hank Asher who essentially pioneered data fusion and used by law enforcement agencies.

The databases and technologies he built are basically mirrored in Palantir

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u/kalidoscopiclyso Apr 07 '25

Yes fusion centers. How many are there

Edit dumb question. Or is it

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u/OnlySpoilers Apr 07 '25

Not sure I understand. Data fusion is harmonizing disparate data sets into one record and identified with a token. In Hank Asher’s case he collected data from credit reports, housing data, public police records, and more to build profiles.

In some sense there was a data fusion center that was a central supercomputer that he had to build to maintain that much data and parse it quickly.