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Re:Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on human r... by lkadr on Thursday April 18, 2019 @05:02AM (#19689708)
Some Europeans countries (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria ) and China have banned hiding one's face one's face in public. Those Asian face masks would be OK, but tribal masks wouldn't.
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Re:Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on human r... by Razengan on Thursday April 18, 2019 @05:28AM (#19689793)
Do those bans include Islamic Hijab etc.?

Again, if those medical/hygienic face masks are OK, wouldn't decorative frills (say, feathers) around sunglasses be OK too? That combination would effectively cover enough of a face.

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