The UK plans to use a snoop-watch to track the movements of some convicted criminals, The system includes facial recognition to verify that the intended person is carrying the snoop-watch.

Since this system tracks and recognizes only a specific person, and is imposed on that person as part of punishment after conviction for a crime, it is one of the exceptional legitimate uses of facial recognition and location tracking.

This example also highlights, by the contrast it makes, the injustice of imposing facial recognition or location tracking on anyone other than a convict. They are typically imposed combinations of businesses that are so powerful that they can shape our society. They receive help from various laws designed to give those companies power.

Carrying a snoop-watch is easier than wearing an ankle-chain, and is much less painful than being in jail.

*Putin is banking on a failure of political will in the west before Russia runs out of firepower.*

The Putin forces' casualty rate is so high that I think Ukraine will be able to push them out of Ukraine next summer, We must keep supporting Ukraine that long.

* The biggest fallacy in the online privacy [issue] is that there is a [real] difference between "state surveillance" and "commercial surveillance."*

In fact, government surveillance operates through commercial surveillance. Both wholesale (surveillance of the whole net) and retail (think of Amazon Ring cameras).

We need to restrict the deployment of massive surveillance systems regardless of who operates them.

The city of Manteca, California, has cancelled a statement it made in support of the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh, which is a foreign auxiliary to the RSS in India.

Some countries plan to attack the Inflation Reduction Act's EV credit with the help of the WTO.

The World Trade Organization is a business-supremacy treaty; it prioritizes catering to business over all other goals.