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Re:Portland adopts landmark facial recognition ordinances by tkzed49 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @10:12PM (#24428239)
I'm suspicious having seen how the GDPR is effectively being circumvented by making nonessential cookies more or less opt-out, and by making the process so annoying that the average person doesn't care enough to do it. It's a lot easier to enforce "not allowed" than "do it in a user-friendly way".

Plus, in a public place, how do you only apply facial recognition technology to a single person? It seems like in most cases, you must first apply it to everyone else nearby to discriminate them from anyone who opted in.

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Re:Portland adopts landmark facial recognition ordinances by MereInterest on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @11:43PM (#24428687)
The GDPR isn't being circumvented in those cases. It is being blatantly and flagrantly violated. The GDPR explicitly requires that refusal to be tracked have no more friction than accepting being tracked. If the banner has a "Accept and Continue" button, then it must have a "Refuse and Continue" button as well. Adding any more steps than that is a violation, not merely a circumvention.
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