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Re:King County, WA bans facial recognition software by zdragnar on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:07PM (#27376418)
No, I want them to be held accountable for when they are wrong, and the hypothetical example of a good facial recognition system removing human bias was an example of that, and could protect people from the other example the post I replied to, which was search warrants granted under a single unreliable source's statement.

Facial recognition isn't going to care that you procured illegally distributed copies of protected works (your ISP already does that anyway), so lets stop moving the goal posts. It is a reactive, not proactive system, and while I am not fully convinced that it is actually ready, I am also not buying the slippery slope nonsense.

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Re:King County, WA bans facial recognition software by natch on Thursday June 03, 2021 @03:10AM (#27378068)
>isn't going to care that you procured illegally distributed copies of protected works

Sorry, I wasn't clear maybe, but somehow you misunderstood me.

I wasn't talking about pirated music.

I was pointing out that some regimes have laws that forbid listening to music, period.

Fixing bias doesn't help when all it does is help accurately catch innocent people who in fact were accurately detected to be doing innocent things, and punishes them for doing those innocent things because those innocent things are illegal in that country for no good reason.

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