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Should the government use facial recognition technology for mass surveillance to enhance public safety?

Facial recognition technology uses software to identify individuals based on their facial features, and can be used to monitor public spaces and enhance security measures. Proponents argue that it enhances public safety by identifying and preventing potential threats, and helps in locating missing persons and criminals. Opponents argue that it infringes on privacy rights, can lead to misuse and discrimination, and raises significant ethical and civil liberties concerns.

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Response rates from 399 Saskatchewan voters.

39%
Yes
61%
No
34%
Yes
50%
No
3%
Yes, but only if it’s tightly regulated and used with transparency
7%
No, it sets a dangerous precedent for government control over citizens
2%
Yes, but only targeting criminal hotspots to protect vulnerable communities
4%
No, I trust the technology but not the humans that could misuse it
1%
No, this would be too expensive to implement

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 @B27PCQLfrom Alberta  answered…2mos2MO

No, the technology is trustworthy but it sets a dangerous precedent for the government and requires too much trust as it can be misused.

 @B3HJK9Rfrom Manitoba  answered…1wk1W

No, facial recognition and profiling technologies have already been shown to be unreliable by being prone to false positives and biased if trained by a human (biggest example is racial profiling). As well, the potential for misuse should be considered.

 @B3DKZ6Sfrom Ontario  answered…2wks2W

Yes, but they should consider the fact that faces can be manipulated either online(editing) or in real life(plastic surgery)

 @B39XQHFfrom Alberta  answered…2wks2W

No, but my only reason for this is because what if a person travels far away to get plastic surgery and when they try to come home the face id cant recognize them so now they cannot come back home.

 @B39DTY7from Ontario  answered…2wks2W

This sets a dangerous precedent that can be potentially abused by corrupt officials therefore it must be tightly regulated and only used in targeting hotspots for protection of innocents

 @B38K4D7 from Washington  answered…2wks2W

No and no. Humans misuse power, governments control/have power over citizens, citizens are being controlled by the government.

 @B35GVYNanswered…3wks3W

With facial recognition technology, having a known flaw in recognizing the faces of black and brown people, it is unreliable at best, inherently racist, and fallible at worst.

 @B34S6LNfrom Ontario  answered…3wks3W

no, it has been proven that facial recognition technology does not identify visible minorities correctly

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…4mos4MO

Peace Over Party: Arab American Leaders Stun Democrats with Mass Trump Endorsement

Former President Trump earned endorsements from "highly respected" Muslim leaders and Imams during a campaign rally in the battleground state of Michigan. Trump, speaking to a crowd in Novi, Michigan, on Saturday afternoon, called the group of Muslim leaders "highly respected," before bringing them onstage."I’m thrilled to accept the endorsement of these highly respected leaders," Trump told the thundering crowd.The group of leaders cited Trump’s commitment to ending wars and ensuring global peace as a primary reason for their support, describing him as a leader who "promises peace, not war.""We, as Muslims, stand with President Trump because he promises peace, not war!" Imam Belal Alzuhairi said. "We are supporting Donald Trump because he promised to end war in the Middle East and Ukraine," Alzuhairi said. "The bloodshed has to stop all over the world, and I think this man can make that happen. I personally believe that God saved his life twice for a reason.""We're going to stop the wars, we're going to make the United States safe again, and we're going to make the world safe," Bazzi said."What a nice endorsement," Trump said after Bazzi’s speech. "These are great people."The Muslim leaders official endorsement came after Amer Ghalib, the mayor of the Detroit-area suburb Hamtramck, announced his support of Trump in a Facebook post on Oct. 20."Though it’s looking good, he may or may not win the election and be the 47th president of the United States, but I believe he is the right choice for this critical time," Ghalib wrote in Arabic on his Facebook page. "I’ll not regret my decision no matter what the outcome would be, and I’m ready to face the consequences. For this, and for many other reasons, I announce my support and endorsement for the former, and hopefully, the next President of the United States, Donald Trump."Ghalib’s endorsement of Trump comes after the two met in Flint earlier this week for a private 20-minute conversation. Ghalib told The Detroit News that Trump "knew a lot about me before the meeting." "We talked about various topics including the debates, the polls updates, the statistics of votes in Michigan and Wayne County, the Arab American concerns and the Yemeni Americans in particular. We also talked about the situation in Yemen," Ghalib said.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…3mos3MO

Defense Bill Blocks Transgender Care To Minors

The Senate on Wednesday gave final approval to a defense policy bill directing $895 billion toward the Pentagon and other military activities, moving over the objections of some Democrats who opposed a provision added late in the negotiations that would deny coverage for transgender health procedures for minors.The 85-to-14 vote, coming a week after a divided House passed the same measure, cleared the bill for President Biden’s signature.Most Republicans and many Democrats supported the measure, which provides a 14.5 percent pay raise to junior enlisted service members and a 4.5 percent pay raise for all other service members. It also expands access to meal assistance, housing and child care programs that benefit those in uniform.But several Democrats withheld their backing in protest of a provision preventing TRICARE, the military’s health care plan for service members, from covering “medical interventions for the treatment of gender dysphoria that could result in sterilization” for children under 18.The language, which would affect the gender-transitioning children of service members, was recently added to the measure at the insistence of Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, who refused to bring a defense bill to the House floor without it, according to aides familiar with the negotiations.Twenty-one Democrats, led by Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, proposed an amendment to strip the provision from the bill, but the matter was never brought to a vote. Several of them took to the floor on Tuesday to lodge their objections.“It’s flat-out wrong to put this provision in this bill and take away a service member’s freedom to make that decision for their families,” Ms. Baldwin said, estimating that the provision could negatively affect as many as 6,000 to 7,000 military families.

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