Microsoft just came out to advocate FOR government regulations on the unfettered use of facial recognition. I know, I had to reread the article\u2019s headline twice too. After all, Microsoft is developing the software for the government, big contracts on the line, money to be made \u2026 but they\u2019re warning us what they\u2019re doing is pretty creepy and maybe folks ought to stop a nano-second to consider the implications. It\u2019s like a serial killer warning the school he plans to shoot up that the gun he\u2019s holding maybe should be regulated. You know, before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n
And if anyone would know, these guys do. What they know is how pervasive and insidious the use of this kind of surveillance will be once they get it up and operational. Cameras mounted on rooftops and every possible nook and cranny, all interconnected to police or government computers, nobody could go anywhere potentially without being tracked. Course, in the digital world, that\u2019s pretty much the case now. Mostly just friendly corporations, you understand, monitoring your computer usage, your Facebook links, your child pornography interests. Like the guy who called me last night, he\u2019s recording our conversation to protect me. From what? I ask, but we both know it\u2019s him. Trouble is, I don\u2019t know who he is. But he knows who I am.<\/p>\n
Sure, I could blame Zuckerberg and Bezos, Amazon and Facebook, Microsoft and Apple, but we\u2019re the ones who let the guy on the phone record us, we\u2019re the yahoos who buy the technology that controls our house now and asks us with a human sounding voice how it can help us. My computer wants to interface with me no matter how many times I tell it not to bother. Too late, too late, the spy is in the house of love.<\/p>\n
But if Microsoft thinks alarm bells are sounding, who am I to hit the Snooze button? They know they\u2019ll make a zillion bucks anyway, but even they know the world they\u2019re creating is creepy and Orwellian. When Big Brother starts warning you to put restraints on him, I think we ought to listen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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