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Re:Facial recognition: It’s time for action by godelski on Friday December 07, 2018 @10:28PM (#18633722)
I think this needs to be changed. What is a public space has changed drastically. What you can do with technology has changed this drastically too. Like where do you draw the line of what someone can do without a warrant?

Follow you?

Video tape you?

Video tape an entire public area constantly?

Have Arial footage of an entire city?

All these things exist and are being done. There's good uses for all of them too. But where do we draw the line? Do the good uses outweigh the bad? Personally I'm not convinced. And that's before we include the internet as a public place, which I really don't think people internalize it like that.

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Re:Facial recognition: It’s time for action by sgt101 on Saturday December 08, 2018 @11:57AM (#18636118)
What's critical is who & why. I might follow you to find out where you go for a drink after work so that I can set up a brilliant surprise party for you there, on the other hand someone might follow me so that they can determine where best to murder them. A city might be filmed to support traffic efficiency and pollution control, if the footage then gets used to suppress political protest then it's a whole different thing.
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