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Re:Facial recognition: It’s time for action by AlexCoventry on Friday December 07, 2018 @10:25PM (#18633706)
It's a computation. Laws against it are unenforceable in general, absent draconian restrictions on computing devices.
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Re:Facial recognition: It’s time for action by samstave on Friday December 07, 2018 @10:40PM (#18633780)
This is HN. I fucking get it.

Facial recognition surveillance technology deployed in any public sphere should be expressly illegal. Period.

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Re:Facial recognition: It’s time for action by lokidokiro on Saturday December 08, 2018 @02:38AM (#18634317)
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.
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Re:Facial recognition: It’s time for action by bsenftner on Saturday December 08, 2018 @10:44AM (#18635738)
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.
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