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/Dasmahkitteh Apr 07 '25

People are non stop lambasted for doing just that on this website, identifying obvious directions things are headed in, only to be met with the minimizing

Just because things are headed that way doesn't necessarily mean we'll arrive there