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Re:Facial recognition technology: How to opt out at the airport by colechristensen on Saturday September 11, 2021 @03:28PM (#28495071)
Write data privacy laws which apply to surveillance cameras which require commercial entities to disclose what information is being collected, how it is being shared with provisions banning certain kinds of collecting, sharing, and storage with regulatory fines, criminal penalties, and provisions enabling class action lawsuits for misuse or other banned disclosures.
Re:Facial recognition technology: How to opt out at the airport by mcculley on Saturday September 11, 2021 @03:47PM (#28495224)
Disclosure is insufficient to prevent aggregation. The same kind of people who sold browsing data to advertisers are selling this data. If you do not want to be tracked, you have to get those around you to not provide the data.
Re:Facial recognition technology: How to opt out at the airport by colechristensen on Saturday September 11, 2021 @04:11PM (#28495449)
That would be why i listed many things more than disclosure.
Re:Facial recognition technology: How to opt out at the airport by mcculley on Saturday September 11, 2021 @04:23PM (#28495561)
I misunderstood. Would you eliminate Facebook and the existing ALPR data aggregators? I am wondering how such restrictions would be possible.
Re:Facial recognition technology: How to opt out at the airport by colechristensen on Saturday September 11, 2021 @06:29PM (#28496685)
You would come up with a decent legal definition of a surveillance camera with a distinction from a person taking pictures. You would add disclosure provisions, if an observed person could reasonably be expected to see and make a choice (say entering a business) there would be one set of rules, when a person couldn’t see a notice or make a choice (say a camera on a vehicle) there would be much more restrictive rules.

You would make it a crime to violate the rules but administered like and possible to sue in civil court for victims. The crime would be on the owner/operator of the camera and special provisions would be added for storage providers.

Re:Facial recognition technology: How to opt out at the airport by mcculley on Sunday September 12, 2021 @04:21PM (#28504531)
Would that prevent Facebook from doing recognition on photos of strangers taken by users? Would that make existing ALPR aggregators illegal?

Yes, we can imagine some set of laws that would make the aggregation impossible. I don't see how they could be effectively created and enforced.