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Train Facial Recognition Concludes: Passengers All Grumpy
Big Brother is proud to boast that passengers at major rail hubs like Euston, Waterloo, and Manchester Piccadilly station have been silently observed without their notice. Amazon-powered facial recognition has been covertly installed by the UK’s Network Rail to monitor and analyze passengers’ emotional state.
Critics calling this surveillance an overreach that threatens to normalize the idea of mass gathering of personal data should be emphatically restrained. After all, this technology could curtail criminal behavior and manage overcrowding.
Upon reviewing the breakthrough findings, Big Brother deduced that people were stressed and annoyed on the way to work and frazzled and hungry on the way home. Wow.
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- Over the past two years, Amazon's AI software scanned thousands of UK rail passengers' faces to analyze demographics and emotions at eight major stations. The trials, overseen by the UK's Network Rail, had no passenger consent.
- Machine learning was used at stations like Euston and Waterloo to detect trespassing, overcrowding, and antisocial behavior, aiming to improve safety, reduce crime, and improve staff response.
- Documents indicate a normalization of AI surveillance without debate. Privacy advocates have stressed the need for greater transparency and public discussion on the practice's ethical implications.
- Network Rail also considered measuring emotions for customer satisfaction and advertising, but the feature was discontinued due to accuracy and ethical concerns.
Sources: Wired, The Times, AI Business, and Tech Spot.
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