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Re:Banning facial recognition is missing the point by schlowmo on Thursday January 23, 2020 @10:14PM (#22135083)
Unfortunately this is already illegal in some other western countries for quite some time. In Germany for example since 1985 (one year late though). It's often used as legitimation when the police is using violence against otherwise peaceful protests.

In the aftermath of the G20 summit in Hamburg there were some advancements to even tighten the law while at the same time the police was using illegal face recognition software.

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Re:Banning facial recognition is missing the point by petre on Friday January 24, 2020 @01:46AM (#22135937)
What about fake beards and moustaches? I've heard they're the norm in Korea. Imagine thousands of Santa Claus or Paul von Hindenburg protesting.
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Re:Banning facial recognition is missing the point by raxxorrax on Friday January 24, 2020 @03:26AM (#22136390)
Illegal surveillance technology deployed warrants illegal masks in my opinion. But you should also hide eyes, ears and nose to the highest degree as possible. But even then advanced image processing will probably be able to identify you if you are already on record in some form.
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Re:Banning facial recognition is missing the point by DonHopkins on Friday January 24, 2020 @05:10AM (#22136831)
Alas, maybe if everyone at the Women's March on Washington wore fake beards and moustaches instead of pink pussy hats, they would have been taken more seriously.
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