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Re:Portland adopts landmark facial recognition ordinances by jMyles on Saturday September 12, 2020 @01:31PM (#24453991)
I notice that you conveniently decided to exclude, among the exceptions listed, "In automatic face detection services in social media applications." I wonder why?
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Re:Portland adopts landmark facial recognition ordinances by michaelmrose on Saturday September 12, 2020 @02:12PM (#24454250)
I didn't choose to copy and paste the entire article into this discussion I presume this means that people can post photos to facebook and facebook can automatically tag people.

I'm assuming this exception is to preserve what a lot of people regard as desirable functionality.

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