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Re:Beijing bets on facial recognition in a big drive for tot... by dis-sys on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:35AM (#16095443)
1. you can choose to stay in your private home not fitted with those cameras. 2. you can choose to wear a mask when walking on streets, there is no law stopping you doing that, going to a bank or metro station is a different story. 3. you can choose to live in remote areas. 4. as a foreigner, you can choose not to visit China. 5. as a Chinese citizen, one can choose to leave China and live in countries without such "problem".
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Re:Beijing bets on facial recognition in a big drive for tot... by zaroth on Monday January 08, 2018 @04:12AM (#16095589)
Yes you can opt-out of anything technically. Both are fairly large sacrifices in the end.
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Re:Beijing bets on facial recognition in a big drive for tot... by PostOnce on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:54AM (#16095512)
most Chinese people are too poor to leave. Masks I imagine would be outlawed as soon as they became a common method of subverting the state.

that, and sesame credit, and the great firewall blocking whole wide avenues of thought, the abuses will pile up as high as the mountains

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