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Re:Facial Recognition Tech Gets Woman Booted from Rockettes ... by partdavid on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @08:00PM (#34075321)
If you had to identify the eventgoer in advance for a non-transferable ticket, then she would have been banned for the same reason and no facial recognition would have been involved. Would that be okay, in some way this is not?
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Re:Facial Recognition Tech Gets Woman Booted from Rockettes ... by nonrandomstring on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @08:20PM (#34075476)
Are you asking me personally? Or to respond with a general philosophical principle?

In either case no.

On the first count, no, because I don't believe in "non-transferable" tickets for arts and entertainments. The holder has every right to give or sell their purchased property to family or friends and "non-transferable" instruments violate that first-sale right.

On the second point, no, because the singular specific "okay" case (even the tear-jerking one that saves poor fluffy dying from kitten cancer) has no bearing on the profound but nebulous harms inflicted on society by an essentially rotten technology (on a purely Utilitarian principle)

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