FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester The criminal complaint lists a pink gas mask and a forearm tattoo as distinct clues that led investigators to use third-party software to help make an arrest.
“Technology has transformed the act of being in public,” Crump said. “People who engage in political protests need to understand that it’s very difficult to do that anonymously.”
Since June, 23 people have been arrested on charges connected to ICE protests in Southeast Portland.
More of this western freedom I’ve been hearing so much aboot.
It’s pretty simple.
When your society values freedom and thinks it lacks it, and movies like “Blade Runner”, “Robocop”, “Total Recall” are popular, - then it has freedom.
When your society values freedom (in words) and thinks it definitely has it, and movies like those are considered funny, gross and stupid rebellion against authority, or at least not how it literally just is, while we now know better, - then it gets ass-raped.
A-and if many people were using their brains to evaluate Google and Facebook, we wouldn’t have reached this stage because parallels are very easy to draw and such systems were the main threat of plenty of sci-fi.
A lot of the problems we have now seem to be due to people in Western democracies becoming complacent and taking their rights for granted. Fascism has surged so rapidly in part because people complacently treated it as some kind of aberration that could only happen in the first half of the 20th century, and assumed “we’re better than that now.”