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Re:Texas Sues Google for Collecting Biometric Data Without C... by VWWHFSfQ on Friday October 21, 2022 @10:52AM (#33288602)
People always come in here with the same comment like "my brain memorizes people's faces too! Should that be illegal???"

Your brain isn't memorizing billions of people's faces on the scale that Google is. There's a difference. It's a false equivalency.

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Re:Texas Sues Google for Collecting Biometric Data Without C... by crazygringo on Friday October 21, 2022 @11:30AM (#33289065)
As long as the data Google is collecting is segregated per-user, then no -- it's not any different.

If Google is learning about 10-20 people per account, and that data never gets combined, then what's the problem?

Google also processes billions of people's e-mails. But they're segregated per-account. So there's no problem. What makes someone's face any different from an e-mail they send?

Again, this lawsuit is not about Google aggregating anything. It's entirely about information that users voluntarily choose to supply, that is used for features desired by those users, and that remains segregated per-account.

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Re:Texas Sues Google for Collecting Biometric Data Without C... by jeremyjh on Friday October 21, 2022 @12:13PM (#33289645)
Do you seriously believe that until the end of time no court can sign a warrant demanding Google search it’s database of photos across all accounts?
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Re:Texas Sues Google for Collecting Biometric Data Without C... by googlryas on Friday October 21, 2022 @12:01PM (#33289484)
So the argument isn't actually about collecting biometric data, but it is about being really good at collecting biometric data?
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Re:Texas Sues Google for Collecting Biometric Data Without C... by nova22033 on Friday October 21, 2022 @02:19PM (#33291296)
Your brain isn't memorizing billions of people's faces on the scale that Google is. There's a difference. It's a false equivalency.

Doing things at scale isn't a crime. Can you point out which law google broke?

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Re:Texas Sues Google for Collecting Biometric Data Without C... by weberer on Friday October 21, 2022 @02:24PM (#33291356)
>Google had violated a state consumer protection law that requires companies to inform citizens and get their consent before capturing their biometric identifiers, including fingerprints, voiceprints and a “record of hand or face geometry.”

The law in question:

https://archive.ph/w9gtb

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Re:Texas Sues Google for Collecting Biometric Data Without C... by shadowgovt on Friday October 21, 2022 @04:25PM (#33292650)
It's going to be an interesting case because it can easily be argued that Google captured nothing; they ran post-capture analysis on data captured by individuals for private use.

Whether that's relevant to the law is what the courts will have to decide.

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Re:Texas Sues Google for Collecting Biometric Data Without C... by monksy on Friday October 21, 2022 @03:14PM (#33291952)
It's also not cooridnating, indexing it, compairing it to others, selling that data, passing it on for blackmail purposes, or law enforcement purposes, etc. Additionally to reproduce the person's overall biometerics it is a very sloppy process and would be unreliable.
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