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And Skynet smiles

Apparently Dallas Love Airport is the new home of SCOT–a robot that checks to make sure that passengers are wearing their masks (like serfs) or if they are waiting too long at the curb to pick up a passenger.

The machines can also detect flagged individuals based on what they are wearing, 

This is the next evolution of the surveillance state caused by policies implemented by the elitist politicians but the EU is taking it a step further:

European Digital Rights (EDRi) policy adviser Ella Jakubowska has been quoted by Wired as saying that what the EU is creating is “the most extensive biometric surveillance infrastructure that I think we will ever have seen in the world.”

The model the EU is going for here is known as retrospective facial recognition, as opposed to the “live” variety – where live images are compared to those in a police database. “Retrospective” means that the number of images that will be shared between police forces will come from a much wider variety of sources: surveillance cameras, social media, phones, and possibly even those taken from citizens’ driving licenses.

Although it’s not mentioned in the first article, it is probable that SCOT has facial recognition software also.

To paraphrase Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit–I do not welcome our new robot overlords.

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    I wonder….where is the robot's weak point? For example, would a brief shot from a hand-held stun gun discombobulate (for various values of “discombobulate”) the thing's electronics? Would a squirt of oil on the floor render it immobile? Would a strip of tape over a sensor or three render it blind? Would a suitcase or box placed in front of it make it think a person was standing there and immobilize it? (for extra points, glue the box/suitcase to the floor). immobilize Would an FJB “I did that” sticker suffice in place of the sensor blinding tape? There must be a recharging port on it somewhere, what would it take to render it useless?We can either submit or resist. Pick one.

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    Anon–It might be like those self-driving cars–if you put a circle of white paint around them, they can't move. And FJB stickers on their sensors would definitely be a good thing.Agree.

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    I wonder….where is the robot's weak point? For example, would a brief shot from a hand-held stun gun discombobulate (for various values of “discombobulate”) the thing's electronics? Would a squirt of oil on the floor render it immobile? Would a strip of tape over a sensor or three render it blind? Would a suitcase or box placed in front of it make it think a person was standing there and immobilize it? (for extra points, glue the box/suitcase to the floor). immobilize Would an FJB “I did that” sticker suffice in place of the sensor blinding tape? There must be a recharging port on it somewhere, what would it take to render it useless?We can either submit or resist. Pick one.

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    Anon–It might be like those self-driving cars–if you put a circle of white paint around them, they can't move. And FJB stickers on their sensors would definitely be a good thing.Agree.

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