Re:Tencent deploys facial recognition to detect minors gamin...
by rotebeete on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @06:45AM
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> The difference being, that here it's done openly and in a visible fashion "either you do this, or you can't play our games".
So hidden surveillance is more ok than open violations?
> That sounds about on a level with an argument that since Hitler was vegetarian, all vegetarians are nazis.
I just wanted to explain why germans have to have an ID.
Re:Tencent deploys facial recognition to detect minors gamin...
by gambiting on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @08:01AM
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>>So hidden surveillance is more ok than open violations?
I knew someone would inevitably come to this conclusion.
No, of course it's not better. But this article is very specifically about an open and overt gathering of biometric data.
I've literally been doing this for the last 11 years, guess I'm screwed then :P
>>They were already taken when you had¹ to get the ID in the first place.
Yes, and the mobile operator doesn't get them, while in the article discussed it's the "private" operator gathering all this data.
>>SIM cards are used for transmitting voice in an insecure fashion, so you can't be sure.
The difference being, that here it's done openly and in a visible fashion "either you do this, or you can't play our games".
>>¹ The federal republic directly adopted laws from nazi germany requiring ID for every citizen.
That sounds about on a level with an argument that since Hitler was vegetarian, all vegetarians are nazis. Your country adopted a lot of laws from the Third Reich. Mine adopted a lot of laws from the communist republic it once was. Neither fact makes those countries anything like their predecessors. The law that every citizen has to have an ID is a good one IMHO(wait for Americans to chime in and say this is against their personal freedom or something).