Re:Boston bans use of facial recognition technology
by kbos87 on Friday June 26, 2020 @08:14AM
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Or other private citizens. What’s stopping someone from creating a mesh of ring cameras and using photos scraped from social profiles to let individuals track one anothers‘ whereabouts in real time?
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Re:Boston bans use of facial recognition technology
by kachnuv_ocasek on Friday June 26, 2020 @08:33AM
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Technically? Nothing. Legally, this would be huge privacy incursion. In the EU, we have, among other things, (usually constitutional) right to privacy, anti-harassment and anti-stalking laws etc.
Re:Boston bans use of facial recognition technology
by bsenftner on Friday June 26, 2020 @08:44AM
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Also logistically, it is nearly impossible. The idea falls apart when attempting comprehensive surveillance. There is simply too much noise and too much uncertainty from the low quality, at distance, uneven illumination video. I write FR software, and large installations typically fall apart because the humans are simply too lazy, they delegate too much that should not be delegated, they are lax and frankly incompetent. Outside of developing tech orgs, FR is too complicated for under-educated persons like the police. At minimum, you need to understand probabilities better than a typical consumer.