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Re:Tencent deploys facial recognition to detect minors gamin... by rotebeete on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @06:45AM (#27759521)
> 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.

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Re:Tencent deploys facial recognition to detect minors gamin... by gambiting on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @08:01AM (#27760099)
>>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.

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