Re:Banning facial recognition is missing the point
by munmaek on Thursday January 23, 2020 @08:39PM
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Why is it one or the other? IMO, laws against facial recognition would start a national dialogue on data collection.
You have to start somewhere, so it’s better to start with this and then expand, versus trying to pass sweeping legislation, etc.
Re:Banning facial recognition is missing the point
by chii on Thursday January 23, 2020 @09:34PM
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"we are already safe from privacy concerns because we've already regulated facial recognition! Why spend any more money on privacy, isn't it enough? We have more pressing issues to deal with!"
Re:Banning facial recognition is missing the point
by Talanes on Friday January 24, 2020 @05:30AM
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Statements like that make great TV news commentary, but they have little basis in reality. Governance rarely deals in sweeping structural changes. Even things generally though of as such, like Civil Rights, came from a long series of small reforms leading to bigger reforms.
there's limited resources for political action. If you focus on facial recognition, may be it succeeds. But the data brokering industry will continue on unabated because there are plenty of other sources of data other than face. And now there's less political capital left to fight the fight again.
Best to deploy the limited resources to fight the root cause - that private data and correlation is unregulated, and put limits and transparency laws around it so that no matter what source or what type of data is collected/correlated, the outcomes for citizens are still good.