Trump supports facial recognition for LEO use

[devil21]

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/msft-shares-briefly-drop-after-trump-retweet


After Microsoft followed IBM and Amazon in banning the sale of its facial recognition system to American police:

“We will not sell facial recognition tech to police in the U.S. until there is a national law in place,” said Smith, speaking via video conference at a Washington Post event.

“We must pursue a national law to govern facial recognition grounded in the protection of human rights.”

President Trump has decided enough is enough and retweeted a brief note from Richard Grenell calling for Microsoft to be barred from federal contracts...

They should now be barred from federal government contracts - there should be consequences for not selling technology to police departments. @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/dsOVPVfufI
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) June 12, 2020



So MSFT is lobbying to pass laws allowing the massive facial recognition spying, but virtue signaling by halting sales to police until the legislation is in place. And Trump makes clear he wants the national security state to get its paws on the technology asap.

Slick little mind game on the masses being played here by the WH and MS working together.

[CCTelander]

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/msft-shares-briefly-drop-after-trump-retweet






Slick little mind game on the masses being played here by the WH and MS working together.


Of course. Trump has always been a big supporter of the domestic police state. He's always been the Copsucker in Chief. His supporters don't care as long as he's using those police state powers to force their own subjective preferrences on the rest of us, or against people they don't like.

[Anti Federalist]

They should now be barred from federal government contracts

And this is a bad thing, why?

Once again, the Drunken Monkey is right for the wrong reason.

[showpan]

Yeah, it's not like they "aren't" using it already since they "don't" have it and TIA still doesn't exist....lmao

[PAF]

Fascist public/private sector bump.

[devil21]

And this is a bad thing, why?

Once again, the Drunken Monkey is right for the wrong reason.

It's not a bad thing if you take it at face value as a truthful tweet. Hopefully one is not so gullible as to do that.

I remember when Trump promised to defund and withdraw from the WHO also. Still waiting for that to happen...