USA is determined to out stupid every other country on earth isn’t it.

I’m just gonna submit pictures of him and Cameron. See how they like it.

simply connect it to a facial recognition database (I understand the UK are quite fond of such)

Yeah but that doesn’t mean they work.

I used to work in security camera monitoring and I used to think I don’t understand why insurers will touch some of these companies with an electrified cattle prod.

They will be pretty high value asset companies with valuable stuff on premises that could be stolen, construction equipment, medical equipment, guns, cars, steel copper lead etc. and their security cameras would max out at 720p have a giant spider web on them without fail and would invariably be on some wobbly pole somewhere that was blowing around in the wind causing 300 false positives a minute. We literally used to switch those cameras off.

Why don’t they insist on equipment that didn’t cost the company $4.50 from Walmart?

The only cameras we used to work with that were actually any good were the number plate recognition cameras, but they were specialist and were absolutely useless for anything else other than number plate recognition. But boy did they get you that number plate.

I never cared that my parents knew where he was because I was never trying to do anything particularly nefarious and my parents weren’t completely buttheads.

But this was pre mobile phone days (my first phone was a Nokia Ngage), so if I went out they wouldn’t be able to contact me in an emergency so it made sense to say oh I’m going to x house here is ther phone number. Now that mobile phones exist maybe that requirement no longer exists.

Oh yeah, We’re looking for that idiot in the stupid sunglasses, a tinfoil hat, and a fedora.