The fact that it isnt completely under is unacceptable.

They will either adjust or outright ban certain kinds of makeup. They will make the law so vague so they can selectively enforce it.

Yes, facial recognition cameras and ‘intention detectors’ have been around for almost 12 or 14 years now in the UK. But they are massively increasingly them AND making them more active. Like before you still could go into most places without major ID. Now you’ll need a face scan for many places and probably fingerprints and DNA real soon.

Nope. You are watched. They watch you. Remember their shit about banning encryption for everyone but politicians and the military? That is the point.

It is actually worse. In the novel that kind of surveillance was primarily for party members (Winston Smith was around mid-level) regular civilians, the Proles, were not surveilled as heavily. They were kept entertained by abundant football games and cheap beer and cigarettes.

Reform just ultimately means change. Meaning they can get rid of those pesky things like privacy and search warrants and right to silence. If the AI says you are guilty then you are. No appeals. If it turns out later that you aren’t then you still must serve your sentence but we will correct the problem only if it impacts the provider’s bottom line.

Yes. I apologize. I should have mentioned it.

That’s the idea, I am afraid.

Why not become thin and simply wear a Weird Al ‘I’m fat’ suit?

But it was. George Orwell knew what they wanted and how they thought.

They will account for that.

I remember hearing about how Britain had so many cameras that it was a privacy nightmare as early as 2000 or 2001. The more time passes and the worse it gets and when Snowden even revealed that the UK government was trying to build a master database of all UK citizens internet activity as early as the mid 2000s it became EXTREMELY evident to me where and how Orwell got his ideas for 1984. While it might have seemed unthinkable to many, the ideas that would lead to that kind of surveillance is a lot older than many people think.

And the reason why they didn’t do it earlier is because… well, how do you do it at a time when recording equipment was costly to setup and extremely obvious AND posed no obvious benefit to the person it was being targeted at. Things like wire tapping phones has been possible since the earliest days of telephones (wire tapping became a known police/spy technique as early as 1928 in Olmstead v. United States), but in practice wiretapping all phones at the time was impossible. You couldn’t record all calls and those calls had to be listened to by a human. It was not possible. But today it is absolutely possible to do all that and more.

At least smart phones and the internet are both extremely useful and highly critical things. Having a camera in your home that doesn’t let you use it does not… but you can also use your ring camera that you set up in your home.

I hate to say it, but I remember around 2000 the UK being called the most surveilled country in Europe due to massive numbers of cameras. I thought it was bad back then, but I had no idea how much worse it would be.

I am Canadian, too (naturalized citizen) and can I have the legislation that banned facial recognition?

Häagen -Dazs was never European. It was made and named by Americans, and the name is not any Danish or Nordic word. It was made up gibberish to make it sound like a fancy foreign ice cream to Americans.