this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2025
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The footage is not used to identify the offender it is used in evidence by a court. It works like this, a litter enforcement officer sees you drop litter, they get it on video as evidence, and they approach you and issue a fine. You give them your name, that's how they get it. If you don't give your name, it's a criminal matter and they call the actual police.
well that is clearly not what happened here as the person fined was not the person filmed
so again I ask you, how do you think the fine wound upein the hands of a person that was not even there?
They took the offender's name and DOB, looked up the name on whatever database they prefer - probably the electoral register, and then sent the fine to that address WITHOUT checking the DOB matched.
There no need to insert face recognition or ai to explain an administrative error.
And for the record I'm not defending ai or face recognition. I think, probably like most people on lemmy, that we need to be vigilant against digital surveillance and the authoritarianism it could very easily enable.
However, this is almost certainly not AI or face recognition and railing against it is wasting energy that could be better spent elsewhere. Instead of contributing to a cause it's undermining it. It's FUD.
fair enough, thanks for your response
You’re just making shit up at this point.