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Re:Banning facial recognition is missing the point by closeparen on Thursday January 23, 2020 @09:02PM (#22134706)
If the images exist, you can't actually stop someone from running facial recognition algorithms on them in private, legal or not. To really stop facial recognition, we need to stop the collection of those images in the first place.
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Re:Banning facial recognition is missing the point by brokenmachine on Thursday January 23, 2020 @11:46PM (#22135470)
Although I would like it, unfortunately I think the CCTV horse has bolted.
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