One in 40 alerts so far this year has been a false positive.

This is the dystopian future that civil-liberty campaigners are most afraid of - a China-style mass-surveillance state.

This is so rich coming from the UK, the most CCTVed country in the world. Oh no, if we keep doing this insane-o shit we'll become almost as bad as the image we made up about bad country Jyna.

The UK has cops walking around with ARs and full auto SMGs on the streets and train platforms and they’re crying about china lol
- For context, Chinese cops are unarmed. This is fine because people in China don't have guns.
  As a tangent, I got reminded of someone saying that the presence of 50 000 guns in China proves that gun control always fails, completely ignoring the fact that China has a population of 1 400 000 000. That is a rate of 0.000036 guns per person. In comparison, the USA has more guns than people.
- Most cops are unarmed in the UK. There's just a detachment of armed ones in the busiest hubs in central London, closer to the queen and houses of parliament and all that.
  As someone said, London Metropolitan Police (responsible for the 32 boroughs) is unarmed, but within London there's 'City of London Police' for that specific area. They're the guns.
- I've seen more armed military on a single day in Tian'anmen square that in a cumulated 10 days in London, I know hexbear is supposed to be satire but give me a break.
Another instance of 1984 where everyone blames the commies over something that was born in the UK.
Every accusation is a confession
But also: every confession includes an accusation

me when i've been consistently masking in public for the past 4 years

So... When you're blanket banned from food stores where do you get your food?

I guess you just have to steal it.

This is the kind of thing where I want a single failure to mean a ban on that company ever doing anything similar again

Oh, you got one person’s face wrong one single time? Sucks to suck. No more facial recognition for you. In fact, no more security cameras at all, no loss prevention staff, you’re literally not allowed to take any steps to prevent theft anymore because you’ve proven you can’t be trusted with that power.

that would require society to not be a class dictatorship of the bourgeoisie
You have committed the most heinous of crimes; denial of treats

Hey just FYI it's illegal to have your bag searched as a condition of exiting. At least in the US. It's kidnapping.

To elaborate: if the store does not require any sort of membership or rule to use (e.g. not a Costco or Sam’s Club), no one has the authority to stop you or search you. You can ignore them and just walk out. But if they ask you to leave, you do have to leave or else it’s trespassing, but they must warn you and give you the opportunity to leave first.
Also, if you do give consent to be searched or detained by security/staff, then basically you lose most of your defenses. They can do whatever they want to a “reasonable” degree, e.g. rummage through your shit, dump it all out, take pictures, make you wait for cops, etc.
I usually just flash my receipt to the old lady when I leave and they wave me through. But if there’s a long line I’m just going to cut everyone and leave lol.
- Also, the membership doesn't intrinsically allow them to do that, there's a provision in the agreement.

Harry Buttle, Harry Tuttle; it's impossible for the central bureaucracy to make a mistake

cool i guess i need to stop swiping soap and shit at harris teeter

The tech might not be perfect yet but with some improvement I'm sure they can get it to 40/40 false positives and keep every customer out of stores making retail almost bearable to work in.

One could dream