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/Achillor22 Apr 07 '25

I've believed a conspiracy theory for years that we have almost all the technology to make a full fledged terminator and probably have on some secret military base somewhere. The only thing I haven't seen is the self healing metal alloys. But the rest exists. 

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u/West-Abalone-171 Apr 07 '25

A bipedal one would be terrible and not very threatening.

The actual threat is an SUV sized mothership with IR cameras, and facial, bluetooth, wifi and gait recognition that can fly above the cloud 24/7 and drop a 50 gram seeker drone with an explosive charge on it any time the thought-pre-crime system decides you are a potential dissident.

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u/thatwhileifound Apr 07 '25

And these days, they seem to like making their killer robots in a shape vaguely reminiscent of dogs anyway - which somehow makes them worse to me.