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Re:New German government calls for European ban on biometric... by soco on Thursday November 25, 2021 @11:49AM (#29342810)
Complaining about straw-man arguments is not bringing much. The facts are: the scanners code is opensource and does not phone home. The rest is fantasy - a valid ethical discussion of course, and it's up to us to discuss it properly (that is, keeping in touch with reality).
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Re:New German government calls for European ban on biometric... by nnamtr on Thursday November 25, 2021 @03:53PM (#29344887)
A restaurant or company could use its own scanner app to save the data, but I assume this would be illegal
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Re:New German government calls for European ban on biometric... by soco on Thursday November 25, 2021 @04:39PM (#29345243)
Technically they could - if they had the skills (a restaurant with programmer staff?), had a the reason (risking to alienate the customers?) and had the guts to go against GDPR (somebody will spill the beans). So...
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