Re:Facial recognition: It’s time for action
by AlexCoventry on Friday December 07, 2018 @10:25PM
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It's a computation. Laws against it are unenforceable in general, absent draconian restrictions on computing devices.
Re:Facial recognition: It’s time for action
by samstave on Friday December 07, 2018 @10:40PM
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This is HN. I fucking get it.
Facial recognition surveillance technology deployed in any public sphere should be expressly illegal. Period.
Re:Facial recognition: It’s time for action
by lokidokiro on Saturday December 08, 2018 @02:38AM
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You clearly don't get it. What if facial recognition technology can be replaced with body recognition technology? Do you ban all forms of recognition technology? That would criminalize a lot of legitimate uses for machine learning.
Re:Facial recognition: It’s time for action
by bsenftner on Saturday December 08, 2018 @10:44AM
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No you don't get it: FR is a sensor, it is not authoritative, and was never intended to be by anyone other than science fiction authors. FR simply helps sift through many faces to help locate. A human still needs to be in the loop, or you are misusing the system. Lead developer of a leading enterprise FR system speaking.
As should license plate surveillance.
And for those that think that license plate surveillance should be legal, what you do not know is that municipalities are mandating that private corporations install license tracking cameras on their facilities and report back to the municipality who is driving by that address. Menlo park is just one such municipality.