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A comment on European Union Calls for Five Year Strict Ban on Facial Recognition Technology. Parent comment

Re:European Union Calls for Five Year Strict Ban on Facial R... by ilikehurdles on Thursday January 23, 2020 @03:52PM (#22131873)
Why should a company be allowed to perform wide scale facial recognition, analysis, and use as its training data the images of people who never consented to that use just so that it can determine whether the face it has in front of it is your face that you gave them consent to use?
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Re:European Union Calls for Five Year Strict Ban on Facial R... by throwaway713 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @03:58PM (#22131953)
Why are people uploading photos of others who never gave their consent to have their image online in the first place?
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Re:European Union Calls for Five Year Strict Ban on Facial R... by cuspycode on Thursday January 23, 2020 @04:33PM (#22132367)
That's a good question. Maybe we should focus on prosecuting everyone who publishes photos of others without their consent? Or not. But that's a question that's completely unrelated to the question of consenting to facial recognition.
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Re:European Union Calls for Five Year Strict Ban on Facial R... by ilikehurdles on Thursday January 23, 2020 @04:01PM (#22131989)
Disrespect? Ignorance? They're huge fans of surveillance capitalism? The more GDPR rules and further privacy regulations such as this help prevent this practice, the better.

Consent should not be assumed and should be revokable if ever given. Yes means yes -- everything else means no.

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