I believe it was and they probably all were.
But with Peter Thiele’s Clearview, with the capability of scanning billions of photos from still images and videos, along with another of his companies having control of most of the citizen-information databases after the handoff from Elon Musk last year, they have no reason _not_ to fold this information into their database ,particularly since the protests happen on public land.
You think they’ll pass up this opportuity to ‘mark’ who specifically showed up and linking it to all the other information they have?
This is just me thinking “off the cuff” about it, but it’d be foolish to go “nah, not likely”. I’d rather be wrong than right but when private biz is involved, eyes gotta be open.
https://www.clearview.ai/
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Here hoping Thiele’s Clearview isn’t scanning all of these photos and videos of citizens on public property to fold into the Palentir databases of citizen information handed over by Musk earlier this year.
It’s “just information” and they’re protesting in public, so there’s nothing ‘wrong’ with collecting the data but linking it to citizen databases like social security, etc for possible use in the future – again it’s in their ‘rights’ to do so as they are on public property protesting – it’s still creepy. Maybe they’re not doing it but I see no reason why they wouldn’t.
https://www.clearview.ai/
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i mean, going after violent people, that’s a police thing and sure, fine – ID away AFTER crimes are committed.
But I worry more about a long-term database situation which tracks political tendencies. The current WH narrative of all Democrats being “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals” can easily migrate from being “colorful rhetoric” or “kids talking” (see 35 year old “young republicans”) to policy…
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I hate that my mind instantly ‘went there’ while looking at your video but I used to do experiments in AI facial recognition a few years ago and it’s super super easy – even on my crappy cheap computer that doesn’t even have a GPU chip – so I know it’s no big deal to do it.
I know it was the worry after Jan 6th when thousands of people closed their fb accts in fear of retribution – but just looking at the behavior of ICE over the last few months, and the database handoffs to Thiele… I dunno, seems whatever privacy barriers were minimally up are coming down
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