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Your Face in Uncle Sam’s Database: Will We Rebel Against Scanning Everyone Entering U.S.?

Your Face in Uncle Sam's Database: Will We Rebel Against Scanning Everyone Entering U.S.?

Civil rights groups file a complaint against a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plan to amass a facial recognition database of every person entering the United States by ship, by plane, or on land. Your face in Uncle Sam’s DHS database will outlive you, and may be shared with federal, state, and local, law enforcement, other federal agencies, and even foreign governments. Will Conservatives rebel against or roll over in the name of national security.

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25 replies on “Your Face in Uncle Sam’s Database: Will We Rebel Against Scanning Everyone Entering U.S.?”

The road to hell is marked by the sign….’He means us well…”
There IS one defense against everything about you being possessed and shared by Big Tech and the Government. One way to NOT be hack-able… Get OFF LINE!

Sadly just getting off line yourself won’t cut it. Not with other people letting Facebook, Siri and, what not on their phones. Not to mention that the government could start demanding a itemized copy of the recipt every time you buy groceries. So going Amish won’t cut it either. The only option is systemic cultural change. I know that’s a huge battle but nothing less will get the job done.

I agree that systemic Cultural change is the goal to fix this mess. But in order to do that, I’m not going Amish…I’m plotting where nobody can see what I’m doing.. 😉

It wasn’t technology but closer to magic… Minority Report pretty much did the same thing as what Scott describes Person of Interest doing. The same problem with both however was when people get to fiddle with the dials (of the software instead of the economy as Bill’s other topic this week) and change how the predictors work.

When certain behavior becomes evidence of a pre-crime (not keeping your cell phone on and near you, as Mark Hunn said) or flying a Gadsen flag (already a nazi indicating thought crime) then normal actions can be used as markers for punishment.

If there’s a silver lining to what happened in Nashville, it’s that big tech can’t reliably identify a person of interest yet. But I wonder how long it will be until not having your phone on and within earshot becomes a crime. Excellent point about using big data to find out and manipulate how much Covid people are willing to take. With Google and Government sharing power who needs Skynet?

A man can rule himself through critical thinking and a reasonable approximation of biblical morality. But the closest men ever get to ruling one another is to play their overbearing games of Dungeons and Dragons. That’s why legitimate governments derive their just powers from the will of the people and the consent of the governed. Also there are limits to what people are allowed to do to one another just because they are playing a game.

That last paragraph was just a simplified re wording of our nation’s founding principles. I put it out there in the hope that it may be useful for getting through to people. Because if we can’t it’s either civil war or hope Elon Musk comes through in a hurry.
Edited to try and keep the paragraphs from going squoosh.

I DO NOT Consent to monitoring by what amounts to an ankle monitor locked to me (which is what facial recognition really is), when I’ve done nothing wrong or illegal to be subjected to such monitoring. I DO NOT Consent to monitoring by any form of Facial, body, shadow, or any other form of recognition, either in public or in private. This includes Voice.
The Fourth Amendment protects me against search warrants, stop-and-frisk, safety inspections, wiretaps, and other forms of surveillance.
“and other forms of surveillance.”

This morning a bomb went off in Nashville. Google has blurred out the front of ONE BUILDING that seems to have been the target. That building WAS an AT&T facility. I can’t help thinking that it might have been repurposed as a server location for, oh, I dunno..Google? Facebook? Twitter????
JUST sayin’……

“If we can save just one person . . .” Wow, sounds like the excuse for the rona lockdowns. A disease with over a 99% recovery rate, yet the whole country has to be locked down and the entire economy destroyed? Please.
When will we stop believing our govt. and the BS that’s shoveled to us every day? Ask WHY they have done what they’ve done over the last 9 months. It wasn’t just to rig the election.
Bill, we’d have to locate (white hats?) all the “storage locations” of all the Google, FB, You Tube, etc. information they’ve been selling and tweaking for the last 15-20 (?) years and “destroy” all of them. (This would bide us some time.)
Then we’d have to remove the 3 letter agencies that operate covertly against US citizens & do unauthorized “work” overseas. Do they really answer to anyone?
Do we really believe the monopolistic social media platforms were able to run in the red for so many years and not fail? Hmmm. Maybe they made big bucks just selling their users info.?
Anyone else notice all the judges they’ve been confirming lately? Anyone can look at what they’re proposing, voting on, passed, etc. here:
https://www.senate.gov
https://www.house.gov
We SO need to clean house! It doesn’t appear the Pres. is able to do it. Sadly.

Term limits. Two terms, any office.
Also, you mentioned saving just one life? Isn’t that the best argument for ending abortion on demand?

Maybe facial recognition will start at the sonogram stage?
With the other side, you just never know what they will dream up next.

Depends on how sophisticated it is. There is software out there that can watch you move to determine the distance between your joints and generate a bone print on you.

Or better yet, that mask from Total Recall. What was it she said? I think it was “Hello boys.”

“Open the Pod doors Hal.” “I can’t do that Dave.”
I remember watching Person Of Interest when it first came out. Very creepy.
Merry Christmas to the three Amigos.

I stand by what I have said elsewhere:
People who depend on computers hope for Artificial Intelligence…
…what they get is Artificial Stupidity.

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