European Union Calls for Five Year Strict Ban on Facial Recognition Technology

Re:European Union Calls for Five Year Strict Ban on Facial R... by Ajedi32 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @04:23PM (#22132262)

I find it ironic because that's one particular privacy problem where better facial recognition technology is the solution, not the cause.

If the accuracy were flawless then there would be zero false positives, and the aforementioned issue wouldn't exist at all.

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Re:European Union Calls for Five Year Strict Ban on Facial R... by tjoff on Thursday January 23, 2020 @04:34PM (#22132378)

You can't seriously believe that better facial recognition technology will result in better privacy - in any imaginable future. We live in a universe where Facebook and Google exist and people in adtech can justify their actions. Yet perfect facial recognition will lead to better privacy?

Oh, and it is hardly the only issue.

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Re:European Union Calls for Five Year Strict Ban on Facial R... by Ajedi32 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @05:28PM (#22132978)

You're taking my statement out of context. Better facial recognition would fix the one particular privacy issue that you brought up. (False positives.) I've said nothing about adtech, Google, Facebook, or any of the other topics you're just now bringing into this discussion.

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Re:European Union Calls for Five Year Strict Ban on Facial R... by tjoff on Thursday January 23, 2020 @09:04PM (#22134719)

Fair enough, I just don't find that solving one edge-case at the same time as creating countless new major issues is particularly helpful.

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