Along with a corresponding explosion in legislation to prevent you from covering your face in public. It already exists in France (popularly known as the 'Burqa Ban', but I think it covers other face coverings).
I'm especially curious to see how this will go down in the UK, which is increasingly authoritarian while often painfully politically correct.
An ill-thought-out and ambiguous piece of law will be rushed through Parliament, with various exemptions for religious groups. The far right will become outraged about these exemptions, and stage protests. The "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" brigade will be out in force. The government will make vague statements about protecting us from terrorists. Paedophiles will definitely be mentioned at some point.
Eventually there'll be farcical prosecutions of people who were just cycling to work with a pollution mask, or going to a fancy-dress party. And the police will continue to claim they're under-funded, while somehow finding the resources to pursue bullshit like this.
(Anyone who wonders why France is unique in having such a law should remember that France changed hands between Protestant and Catholic monarchs roughly two dozen times, and each time there was a mini-crusade, with citizens of the religion-in-power urged to "coerce" citizens of the religion-out-of-power to converting with whatever means necessary. That died down enough that there was never a law made to stop it at the time, but France saw the potential for such cyclical violence to begin again when it joined the EU and began getting increasing levels of immigration from non-Christian cultures, and so figured that such a law was long past due.)
Here's the relevant law for Virginia.
https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter9/secti...
It's a class 6 felony, which in VA means you'll be looking at "a term of imprisonment of not less than one year nor more than five years, or in the discretion of the jury or the court trying the case without a jury, confinement in jail for not more than 12 months and a fine of not more than $2,500, either or both".
I see what you did there :)
> Research Article: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.09665.pdf
> Video for patches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1sp4X57TL4
However, today [not] using an ad-blocker is as ethically questionable as having [un]protected sex with a stranger. There isn't a single ad network that does not, every now and then, dish out drive by malware.
In the future, simply entering a store with CCTV is an opt-in for FR analytics and all that entails.
It's one thing to wear a "face mod" because you're paranoid - it's quite another to wear one because your favorite celebrity does.
I'm confused.
Hit heads perhaps?
As in, “Ouch! I caught that camera with my face.”
That's a lot of potatoes to move!
The other thing we can surmise which is strange about the crime: He had to have stolen a truck worth of potatoes. So he either used his own truck, or he stole a truck and then gave it back after having fenced the potatoes.
I wonder if it's possible that he ditched the truck afterwards, it was recovered unharmed, so they didn't bother charging him with that, or the article just didn't bother listing the additional charge of truck theft since the potato theft was far worse financially.
So it's more like a fraud. He bought some potatoes and then disappeared without paying.
Thanks to GDPR, I can now acess a page with what I want to read way faster than before!
Or I suppose you could thank GDPR for pointing you to it in the first place. :-)
I'm wondering if I will start seeing more of these in the future.
Articles done event have properly tagged titles.
Right now the cookie consent form reeks of passive-agressive design.
But you could walk over the hill to the next village and start again.
Edit: however, I just thought of the story of Cain in the Bible, so that stands as presumably a pretty ancient archetype.
Yay!
People should get it that in a full fledged information economy the only thing that will have value will be information that they only they have. So encrypt, don't share, obsfucate, and when applicable use legal protection like patents for anything you can...
Never know what might be of value. One of the few good ideas I've hear in the crypto space is owning and encripting your personal data so that only you can sell it to advertisers. Sounds retarded, but as more and more things will become worthless there might be some prophecy of a future to come...
I tend to believe there's still issues with the technology and/or data in/data out issues (unless, for example, the Chinese have REALLY good photos of people to start with -- that's the excuse the British police gave in the above story for the 91 percent false positive rate).
