But people can abuse technology for various horrible things.

Just today, @HuffPost reported that NeoNazis designed some software that ICE uses.. ( https://twitter.com/DavidFolger8/status/1247722096014151681
Here is the full article with the link.

But let me highlight some of the more horrific parts:

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5e7d028bc5b6cb08a92a5c48/amp?6p8=&__twitter_impression=true
"Clearview’s CEO and co-founder, Cam-Hoan Ton-That, and his associates chose to mass-violate social media policies against scraping accounts to build an image warehouse of unprecedented size, as several outlets have noted recently."
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5e7d028bc5b6cb08a92a5c48/amp?6p8=&__twitter_impression=true
"Two of Ton-That’s (CEO of clearview) associates loomed larger than most thanks to their close connection to billionaire Peter Thiel, a Facebook board member and Trump adviser: Jeff Giesea, a Thiel protégé and secret funder of alt-right"
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5e7d028bc5b6cb08a92a5c48/amp?6p8=&__twitter_impression=true
This was a Facebook post by one of the execs in Clearview

FYI: This Charles Johnson is a different Charles Johnson (@/greensfootball) than the one who inspired Norwegian shooter Anders Breivik.
Another employee/independent contractor/associate of Clearview
Remember, when Climate disasters happen, it is these technologies that will determine who lives and who dies....
"One chapter leader was a State Department official assigned to the Bureau of Energy Resources"

This is how close we are to the rise of the Fourth Reich.
Meanwhile, besides ICE, a whole bunch of law endorsement agencies are using a Nazi-made facial recognition software to target minorities.
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