@mcnado@mstdn.social @Gargron@mastodon.social And I want to be clear - I’m not defending the actual system - I think facial recognition databases are a gross violation of privacy rights and are misused all the time. I just think it’s important to have a distinction between mass surveillance and machine learning/AI. They are both very real, and there are benefits and technopanic around both - but they shouldn’t be conflated.