The issue isn’t Māori faces! It’s that they are taking faces in the first place!

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Māori data specialists not consulted on facial recognition technology used in government agencies – data sovereignty expert

Māori data specialists are accusing the government of ignoring them while going ahead and expanding the reach of facial recognition technology.

Technology in use for three years at Internal Affairs was being extended for the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) to use, and extended so it could search the driver licence photo database at the transport agency, Waka Kotahi.

It was part of work by seven major agencies led by Internal Affairs on a new approach to digital identity, which the government argues would give people more control over their own data, and more security.

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Y-E-S, outrageous that there has been such manipulative disposal of a Māori world view perspective regarding the taking of facial identification for an Eye of Mordor mass surveillance programme that has been secretly occurring beneath the surface while attention has been consumed by Covid at a time when the State is freaking out about domestic terrorism.

S-U-R-E, it’s unacceptable for a programme that has cultural implications hasn’t been properly vetted by Māori.

B-U-T, the issue isn’t that there hasn’t been Māori Departmental oversight, it’s that the fucking State has quietly sewn up inter Departmental means of sharing face recognition data in real time to the Police and any number of internal security agencies with barely a ripple on the surface of public debate?

Information you gave to the MSD for private purposes in order to get state aid should remain within that agency without it being available to any other State agency.

There are reasons a Government agency has data on you, that’s for a specific purpose, it shouldn’t be accessible to any other agency!

That’s what all this inter Department collusion is achieving. Vast unchecked mass surveillance over the domestic population with no checks, no balances and the only discussion surfacing are over procedural identity politics machinations???

This isn’t a cultural appropriation issue, this is a vast human rights assault happening in real time!

The issue isn’t Māori faces! It’s that they are taking faces in the first place!

This is the same debate happening over at the Department of Statistics and the ability for the Deep State to access their data as well!

The media are not discussing the ramifications of what is happening here, this entire fight is being conducted beneath the surface without anyone knowing how much of an enormous move it represents.

The State are building an enormous spy system that will have real time power to intrude deep into your life to the point of automatic real time surveillance using interdepartmental private information.

The State freaked out over the Dumb Lives Matter Parliament Protest and the impact of radicalisation that has had on the political landscape alongside bad faith grifters, international agitators and social media hate algorithms has resulted in a maximisation of quietly developed face recognition software and hardware upgrades while connecting departments with new cross search technology and systems.

Where is the oversight to this vast ramping up of civil surveillance?

Where is the debate about that?

The Police were busted using face recognition without any sign off from the Privacy Commissioner!

Why trust any of this to be quietly conducted in the shadows when there is so much power being self granted here?

What happens if we get a very punitive Government who wants to be heavy handed on certain groups and uses the full force of the State, every single department all at once on one person who is deemed a threat.

Do we understand what we are building here?

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11 COMMENTS

  1. That you all really believe that you can take over the media, create mandates out of thin air and think you win. Not only are you a non political entity – you have no idea of anything beyond your fake intelligence.

  2. You have been on about this for a number of years Martyn, always National and the right as the boogie men setting up nefarious ways to monitor and catch us all who are up to no good!
    And lo and behold …it’s the LEFT who get it up and running, who would have thunk it eh? lol

    I’m sure the greens will be dead set against a right wing govt setting this up without all affected agencies being consulted and then be demanding transparency and answers!….ohhh wait….

    • It has almost invariably been leftists governments that have turned authoritarian so why the surprise?
      Adern is really no different from the leaders of Vietnam who knew what was best for their people and ANY price paled in comparison to the virtue of their vision.

    • There’s nothing left wing about the ‘Labour’ Party. Just as there’s nothing nationalist about the ‘National’ Party.

  3. Taking faces or making faces? Making places or taking places? Nurturing a strong New Zealand or weakening a wrong New Zealand? Naming us Aotearoa or turning us into a dead moa? Moaner or moana, rising positively? Why or wai, clean and healthy? Questions and pondering. Which Whakatauāki is the best and most appropriate and will get us looking and thinking in the way we need right now and in future?

  4. It shows how out of touch these muppets in government are. No surprise it’s this mob that want mass surveillance, but they need the fear mongering to scare enough idiots into voting them back in and the best way they can do that is with masks. Oh wait, facial recognition only works if the face isn’t covered up!

  5. Some of you might like this piece from Russell Brand’s Youtube channel.
    “Amazon have admitted providing the police with user footage from its Ring camera doorbell product, displaying the increased collaboration between big tech and police agencies. This, as we know the FBI have secured thousands of deals with Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Dell, IBM and Hewlett Packard.”
    https://youtu.be/pE6snhuLRR8
    What many of you have yet to comprehend, you poor lambs, is that national and that most odious little fleck on national’s arse hole, the act party, then the labour thing, The Green Party bumble fuck, @Texas Pete’s maori party and nz first are all one and the same thing. They’re corporatised and monetised politics which means they’re already all bought and paid for. The moment dodgy carpet bagger lobbyists strayed beyond the lobby into the offices of those we voted in to best be on our side in all permutations of the concept we were fucked and they got rich.
    The Daily Blog should spend less time pointing out the blindingly obvious and try to encourage debate re solutions to this costly fucking mess.

    • Thanks cb you go on pointing it out as Martyn et al are needed to go on as they are as our world is a many- splendoured thing.

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