• juniper [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    22 days ago

    This specific situation may be a bluff but if the goons have cameras and people’s faces are not covered, it would be pretty trivial to use even just open source facial recognition software if you have access to Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc data.

    Everyone likes to dunk on Palantir because it’s basically the enterprise software grift but for the deep state. However, this stuff is technically trivial so long as you have access to social media data, and because AmeriKKKans are addicted to they phones that’s not a big leap of reason to expect for the country that gave birth to snowden