<story><title>Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-23/amazon-pitches-facial-recognition-tools-to-monitor-immigrants?srnd=premium</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>makewavesnotwar</author><text>Sure and while you&amp;#x27;re at it why not implement cameras all over every roadway to automatically ticket you every time you break the speed limit. Or better yet, why not devise a real time geolocation device to be embedded in cars and then lobby for it to be nationally adopted so people literally can&amp;#x27;t speed?&lt;p&gt;The reality is that very few people want to live in that world and even if we do fully adopt technologies like this, it doesn&amp;#x27;t necessarily make us any safer. A car traveling 30 mph is absolutely as lethal as a car traveling 10 mph faster than that. And I&amp;#x27;m much more likely to be killed by a random traffic accident (only time I&amp;#x27;ve been hit on my bike was by a white women driving a Ford) or domestic terrorist&amp;#x2F;psychopath than an immigrant.&lt;p&gt;So you&amp;#x27;re pitching huge lifestyle and diplomatic costs without any obvious benefit... Please count me as a no.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-23/amazon-pitches-facial-recognition-tools-to-monitor-immigrants?srnd=premium</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tinktank</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s just another use-case for them I suppose.  Interesting to see how, as tech companies become bigger, they go the same way  as companies in all the other industries.  I&amp;#x27;m not surprised, but I am disappointed.</text></comment>