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xg15 on Oct 18, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon Employee: We Shouldn’t Sell Facial Recognit...

> technology can make it feasible to scale repression like never before. facial recognition, big data, centralized Electronic banking are all enormously powerful tools in the wrong hands

What would be the "right" hands?

mprev on Oct 18, 2018 [–]

Presumably those that wouldn't use it. If we accept that those technologies have upsides, then the "right hands" would be those that don't take advantage of the downsides.

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