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I don't know what shocks me more:

the fact that "Europe's first ever intelligent video #surveillance system" is installed in a German region governed by the Green party @GrueneBundestag which is supposed to defend civil liberties.

Or the staggering certainty with which the engineer #MarkusMüller at #FraunhoferSociety thinks his surveillance wet dream of unlimited realtime knowledge about public spaces is somehow good.

Article about #algorithmic #video surveillance: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/mannheim-system-reports-hugs-police/