The land of facial recognition database.

Porque no sólo en la Argentina el Estado te cuida:

54% of Americans have a face print in a facial recognition database.

According to some sources at least 54% of Americans have a face print in a facial recognition database. 34 states use facial recognition on drivers licenses and the FBI has aggressively rolling out its Next Generation Identification system with the goal of gathering a face print on everyone. There are cameras on every stoplight in my neighborhood and I pass dozens on the way to work. Is this the proper role of government? Most people don't realize how large the surveillance state has grown. 

When I talk about these issues with non-libertarians, I often hear that it's for our own good or it's in the name of safety. I ask if they would object to a police camera watching their street. A surprising number of people say no. I then ask how about a camera focused just on your house. What!? This tends to change their tune. A camera focused just on their house and yard makes them uncomfortable. I then point out the same safety arguments that they use to justify a camera down the block could be applied to a camera focused just on their house or even a camera in their house. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in his famous dissent in Olmstead v. United States wrote, "[The drafters of the Constitution] conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men." It was true then and it's true today.

The Advocates for Self Government.