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Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”
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Just a little evil, as a treat.
It’s on brand for Google, just look at project Nimbus
Installed the CBP app mentioned in the article just so I could leave a 1 star review
Edit: the weird spellings around my blurred out name is due to my Pixel phone’s Magic Eraser doing odd things
Excellent reyiew.
“Doestrt work correctly”
It’s intentional, if they’d spelt correctly then people would figure out they didn’t work for CBP
That was my phone’s magic eraser to blur my name going outside the lines to affect the area around it
By the way! A lot of blurring algorithms can be reversed! So if there’s sensitive information you should just completely cover it
What’s happening with this screenshot?
Am I having a stroke?
It looks like they used an ML image autofill to cover identifiable info? Maybe?
Bingo
Magic Eraser doing weird things to the text around my name
Why not rectangle?
My built in software makes that more steps than blurring
Man I cant wait for graphene to make their phone. I don’t even want to give Google the money for a new Pixel now.
I’m hoping for a good Linux phone and then I’ll be totally de-googled
They need to connect with the former Essentials Phone staff. It was a former Google employee venture. It was a good clean stock android phone, that didn’t get enough attention. They’d be the perfect fit for graphene or a Linux phone
Please! I can only boycott a company once. Stop giving me more reasons to boycott! It’s redundant!
Not everyone is aware.
Anybody who is not aware by now that Google is one of the most evil institutions on the face of the planet isn’t going to be persuaded by yet another example, I’m pretty sure.
You are probably right. Although I have seen a lot of people I’m my community become much more privacy aware and even hostile towards flock cameras when they couldn’t care less a year ago.
Eh. Possibly a fair point. I’ve got a hair trigger when it comes to spotting unethical corporate behaviour, and I’m always looking and waiting for the moral failure that seems inevitable when money enters the picture. Maybe I’m overestimating how much other people watch out for this.
They picked the good side, right?
Padme: . . .
If you expected anything else you don’t pay attention. Only reason they wouldn’t support it is if they say it as something that would fail and the criminals prosecuted something not going to happen without a revolution never for “morality”.
