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1. jwally · 1790684914 · focus · HN ↗

   I was thinking about this with flock cameras the other day...what's our actual ROI? Was the world horrible before and these initiatives are going to close a monster crime gap or is this just a giant fishing expedition ... just because?

   1. whycome · 1790693000 · focus · HN ↗

      There’s no way they captured Luigi using normal means at a random McDonald’s because of a random ID. I always figured it used some unpublished data and facial tracking and was high profile enough to use in this case with only a flimsy “parallel construction” necessary

      1. IncreasePosts · 1790693645 · focus · HN ↗

         They caught him because a customer thought he looked like the suspect.
      2. runtime_terror · 1790694311 · focus · HN ↗

         What a weird conspiracy theory to have of all your options

         1. piltdownman · 1790697078 · focus · HN ↗

            Occam's Razor my fiend. Ask yourself what's the higher statistical probability in Trump's America:

            A minimum wage teenager, in a city of less than 50,000, on the tills during the breakfast rush, managed to positively ID the suspect, despite him wearing a mask and beanie, based on ambiguous CCTV photos, and decided to snitch. He was then detained within 11 minutes.

            Versus

            A federal agency tapped into CCTV or kiosk-cameras automatically ID'd him via facial recognition, and then established clean, admissible evidentiary trail to mask an unconstitutional investigative source.

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