“Only because of that official investigation did Canadians learn that ‘over 5 million nonconsenting Canadians’ were scanned into Cadillac Fairview's database”. Wow.
This Wired article is contradictory. The spokesperson says:
“an individual person cannot be identified using the technology in the machines. The technology acts as a motion sensor that detects faces, so the machine knows when to activate the purchasing interface”
I suppose it’s possible that a sloppy developer would name an executable Invenda.Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe which merely senses the presence of a face. But it seems like a baldfaced lie when you consider that:
“Invenda sales brochures that promised ‘the machines are capable of sending estimated ages and genders’ of every person who used the machines—without ever requesting consent.”
Boycott Mars
I already boycott Mars because they are a GMA member and they spent ~$500k lobbying against #GMO labeling -- and they have been blackballed for using child slave labor -- and Mars supports Russia. This is another good reason to #boycottMars.
Update
Apparently a LemmyBug replaced the article URL with a picture URL. The article is here:
https://www.wired.com/story/facial-recognition-vending-machine-error-investigation/
The vending machine pic is here:
https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/2041d717-7cd7-4393-94f3-96aa87817aa7.jpeg
Lmao, voting doesn't work. If it did, they wouldn't let you do it.
It's pretty clear from your entire reply that you are far too invested in the status quo to ever imagine life outside of it. I can't help you with that, and I'm not going to waste my Sunday trying.
Good luck with your boycotts lol.
Aah, the infamous "they." The enemy, the other, who is both villain supreme and the means to justify inaction.
Voting in the US works at the local level, arguably sometimes at the state level. I've seen it work. That it doesn't work at the higher levels has less to do with conspiracy and everything to do with the fact that (in the U.S. at least) both Democrats and Republicans have been colluding to close out opposition for years. That has nothing to do with capitalism and everything to do with power. Absent active engagement, every system falls to greed and power.
Voting does work, it's just voters need to be vigilant. People have got complacent over the years in thinking the voting system is perfect, and this has allowed bad actors to usurp the system - particularly with new technology.
If anything, we should be voting on more things. Fire the politicians, replace them with lawyers who know how to write law, let the people vote on laws directly. We wouldn't have the bullshit over abortion if people voted on that specifically, rather than their favourite con man.
They do stop and discourage people from voting though... Like that lady that cast a provisional ballot getting charged with vote fraud...
And yet instead of getting Trump again in 2020, voters chose differently. It was reallllly hard to find that example though, since it was 200 years ago and simply never happens /s