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Apparently men have to be tracked for safety reasons. (www.bbc.co.uk)
submitted 1 day ago by MasterBlaster@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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I find it alarming that to "protect" women, men have to be surveilled secretly in all public places. This is way beyond dystopian.

AI and remote security personnel get to decide if someone is "a predator" and take 'em down preemptively if they look suspicious.

What could possibly go wrong?

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[–] steeznson@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why not sell it as a big laser quest game? #YesAllMen /jk

Women are slightly more than half the population (51%?) and experience the most harrassment. I think something needs to be done but maybe not a dystopian measure. How about a shared register of dangerous men made by competent devs (not outsourced) that don't leave the s3 bucket open to the intetnet unencrypted? Or - given that the police are useless - make the process of getting a restraining order more straight forward, require less evidence.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, you mean like the Spill the Tea app? That would never be used to infringe on privacy or destroy reputations of innocent people, right? Right?

I'm not going to go further and turn this into a discussion for a different forum, except to suggest a search on harassment and gender. Regardless of gender issues this and similar "protective" activities only serve to enhance control over populations.

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

I was referring to that app when mentioning the poor engineering choices that were made. My thinking is more along the lines of your co-commenter, sex offender++, or smth

[–] hector@lemmy.today 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They already have sex offender lists. People duly convicted by a jury of their peers.

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

I don't know how available this is in every country but something like an enhanced version of that