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Re:Apple Just Disabled Clearview AI's iPhone App for Breakin... by pdkl95 on Saturday February 29, 2020 @10:56PM (#22455027)
> At most you can ban outcomes

You can also change incentives. If aggregating faces into a database makes you liable for the damage that happens when that database is used, the "Guatemalan farmer" (and any business that wants reasonably prices liability insurance) will go out of their way to avoid making that database.

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Re:Apple Just Disabled Clearview AI's iPhone App for Breakin... by dzhiurgis on Saturday February 29, 2020 @11:44PM (#22455180)
No one is gonna go after couple of misdemeanours in a third world country.
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Re:Apple Just Disabled Clearview AI's iPhone App for Breakin... by kevingadd on Sunday March 01, 2020 @03:42AM (#22455847)
Nobody is going to buy their Clearview or Palantir grade military/police tech from a third-world farmer, either.
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Re:Apple Just Disabled Clearview AI's iPhone App for Breakin... by saagarjha on Sunday March 01, 2020 @03:49AM (#22455877)
> a third-world farmer

I think this is a fairly uncharitable view of software engineering in these countries. Many countries by surveillance technology from others.

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Re:Apple Just Disabled Clearview AI's iPhone App for Breakin... by kevingadd on Sunday March 01, 2020 @07:01AM (#22456511)
The grand-parent post specifically mentioned a "guatemalan farmer", so my point was that people typically buy surveillance technology from bigger players instead of from small-time hobbyists and sole proprietors. There's nothing wrong with the software engineering in other countries.
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