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Re:Portland adopts landmark facial recognition ordinances by ghaff on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:23AM (#24433175)
It's not that there's a right to facial recognition technology but that there's an implied right that, if I take a photo, that I can use that photo. (Except in some specific ways, e.g. using it in some libelous way to misrepresent the subject, certain types of commercial use like ads, etc.) Certainly if I take a picture of a person there can't be a blanket prohibition on trying to figure out who that person is.

In the US I have pretty wide rights to take a photo in a public place for editorial purposes and to publish it (which is a variant of freedom of the press).

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Re:Portland adopts landmark facial recognition ordinances by michaelmrose on Friday September 11, 2020 @02:02AM (#24439613)
Can't you exercise your freedom of the press without automatically subjecting all passers by to facial recognition? For example one could argue that the freedom of the press would be paramount were you wanting to write a story about an event that had happened while using facial recognition to identify participants and or witnesses without letting people gather info on every person on the public street at all hours from now until forever?
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