https://www.vice.com/en/article/k78qyy/f...-purchases A sweeping proposed piece of legislation with support from both Democrats and Republicans will ban law enforcement agencies from buying data from controversial firm Clearview AI, as well as force agencies to obtain a warrant before sourcing location data from brokers.
The news presents significant action against two of the main avenues of law enforcement surveillance uncovered in recent years: the widespread proliferation of facial recognition technology using images scraped from social media, and the warrantless supply chain of location data from ordinary smartphone apps, through middlemen, and eventually to agencies.
once again the congress critters are selling another bill of goods
with a pretty name, wrapped in a pink bow.
If one were to follow the money we'd see this was written by the K-street lawfare lizards...the following endorsements are a 'tell' >>>
American Civil Liberties Union, Americans for Prosperity, Center for Democracy and Technology, Color of Change, Demand Progress, Due Process Institute, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fight for the Future, Freedom of the Press Foundation, FreedomWorks, Free Press Action, Interactive Advertising Bureau, MediaJustice, Mozilla, NAACP, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Network Advertising Initiative, Open Technology Institute at New America, Open The Government, PEN America, Project on Government Oversight, Public Citizen, Public Knowledge, Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability, Restore the Fourth, Mijente, Just Futures Law, and Brennan Center for Justice.
Crazyedit: >>> congress critters don't write legislation, they only profit off of what they sell...and this one is more smoke n' mirrors...I wouldn't be surprised if the mountain view marxist surveillance capitalists were the ones pushing this to consolidate power, ultimately benefiting themselves.
(05-19-2021, 05:09 PM)Ohan Wrote: Do you think that's a good idea ```
No brother >>> consolidation is corporatism...Mussolini was a master at it.
And as far as facial recognition goes, Jeff Beelzebub's Amazon
is selling his services to LEO's nationwide...Your phone apps
sell everything to the highest bidder...aaaaand cable and sat
TV providers kin spy on ya in yer own house...
All new very large smart tv's have quad processors in em...they're
cheap to buy cuz everyone makes money off your data; just like phones
A few weeks have gone by since this thread was started...Today
I see this report >>> Bills Alleged to Take On Big Tech are Either Feckless or Leftist Power Grabs
Don't listen to the rhetoric out of DC. Read the bills.
on another note; Big tech hates the 4th cuz they sell all your data...all phone apps access 100% of everything on your phone,
unless you root yer phone and get rid of all apps: & Turn off the data
and just use yer smart phone as a dumb phone...never use yer phone as a computer
the 4th reads > The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated
