She was denied entry to Rockettes show, then facial recognition debate ignited

Re:She was denied entry to Rockettes show, then facial recog... by john_the_writer on Sunday January 22, 2023 @03:46AM (#34475545)

If her picture had been handed out to all the security officers, would that violate her privacy? The argument "it's super easy to add new faces" would also follow if they just handed out bits of paper to the staff.

If the software is being used in criminal cases then, that's bad. If it's being used the same way a picture in the local 7/11 is used to say "don't sell to this person." then it's not so bad.

If it's being used to track someone as they walk around town, then I think it falls into privacy.

In this story. The lawyer was warned. It's reasonable to assume if you're suing me, I don't want you in my house.

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Re:She was denied entry to Rockettes show, then facial recog... by explodingman on Sunday January 22, 2023 @04:49AM (#34475843)

> if you're suing me, I don't want you in my house.

The "me" in the article is not a person, but a corporation. The person suing is not the lawyer, but whoever engaged the law firm. And an entertainment venue is not somebody's house.

How about ... If you work for a company that is engaged by a company that is suing us in a business dispute, we will harass you by excluding you from an unguessable amount of venues and events. We're warning you of this but we won't give you a list of those venues and events, you'll just find out when you get excluded as you go about your private life. And we don't have to get a green light from a magistrate to do this, and we might continue doing it after the dispute is over if we don't like your attitude.

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Re:She was denied entry to Rockettes show, then facial recog... by jwalton on Sunday January 22, 2023 @01:21PM (#34480442)

Let’s say you owned several dozen music venues all over the country. Let’s say another company sued you. Would you find photos of all the lawyers who work at the law firm representing your legal rival, and distribute those photos to all of your security staff at all your dozens of venues?

I think the scale allowed by automation is important in this case.

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