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A comment on San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recognition use in the city.

Re:San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recogn... by mc32 on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @06:59PM (#19031196)
But will it yet allow private facial recognition? If so that’s a loophole. Oh, we don’t do FR ourselves, we contract that out!

FR isn’t bad in and of itself. What is needed is regulation governing that data.

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Re:San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recogn... by tehlike on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @09:54PM (#19032216)
If it is available, it will be used. Either within stretched legal frameworks, or through illegal surveillance.

Not that we can do much about it. It is going to happen eventually .

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Re:San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recogn... by philliphaydon on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @12:56AM (#19033021)
“Eye witness put a person in the area and we just looked at the footage for that time frame”
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Re:San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recogn... by samstave on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @12:17AM (#19032892)
exactly - all the bigTechCos will likely have it, of they dont already...
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