<story><title>Activists turn facial recognition tools against the police</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/technology/facial-recognition-police.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmason</author><text>How are you going to get anyone to become a policeman?  This whole doxxing your  opponents movement scares me.&lt;p&gt;I will grant you that allowing police to use tape to cover their name tags is wrong on many levels.&lt;p&gt;But if protesters use this technology to target policemen&amp;#x27;s families, why would anyone in their right mind take the job?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&amp;gt; How are you going to get anyone to become a policeman?&lt;p&gt;Ideally, you aren&amp;#x27;t; you are going to disband the centralized, omnipurpose paramilitary law enforcement entities known as &amp;quot;police departments&amp;quot;, redistribute law enforcement responsibilities among domain-specific entities that for the most part are not exclusively, or even centrally, law enforcement, and not violate the public trust the way police departments have broadly and systematically done over an extended period of time.</text></comment>
<story><title>Activists turn facial recognition tools against the police</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/technology/facial-recognition-police.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmason</author><text>How are you going to get anyone to become a policeman?  This whole doxxing your  opponents movement scares me.&lt;p&gt;I will grant you that allowing police to use tape to cover their name tags is wrong on many levels.&lt;p&gt;But if protesters use this technology to target policemen&amp;#x27;s families, why would anyone in their right mind take the job?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ben_w</author><text>In a perfect world, that’s something which only &lt;i&gt;bad&lt;/i&gt; cops have anything to worry about.&lt;p&gt;We’re not in a perfect world, and — as all humans are imperfect — evidence of badness will accumulate in even the best of us. I wish I knew how to fix that, because it also applies to literally all online activity, and isn’t just a cops thing.</text></comment>