Re:She was denied entry to Rockettes show, then facial recog...
by janalsncm on Sunday January 22, 2023 @05:55AM
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In my mind there are two things going on, and perhaps an emergent property of both:
1. Banning people for any reason or no reason at all from a private business. Not a privacy issue, but a rights issue (the right of a business to refuse whomever they want, the right of a patron to be served without prejudice). We have laws about these things. Maybe they should be revisited since with a distributed list the scale of the problem is different. I can see arguments for and against.
2. A powerful new technology that has until now mainly been used against those with the fewest legal options. There are perhaps some questions about the way this person was identified and banned, and perhaps this would be illegal in states with better biometric protections such as Illinois. However I see technological whack-a-mole as a pretty weak argument against the more central issue. It doesn’t have to be a face, it could be cell phone location data or even satellite imagery moving forward.
Where it gets interesting is in the combination of the two. This new technology will enable blacklisting on a scale never seen before. And the inverse, tracking ideal customer behavior anywhere they go. A social credit score, privatized and packaged neatly into products sold by companies you’ll have never heard of. And just like with Equifax and Experian, you’re not the customer, you’re the product.
1. Banning people for any reason or no reason at all from a private business. Not a privacy issue, but a rights issue (the right of a business to refuse whomever they want, the right of a patron to be served without prejudice). We have laws about these things. Maybe they should be revisited since with a distributed list the scale of the problem is different. I can see arguments for and against.
2. A powerful new technology that has until now mainly been used against those with the fewest legal options. There are perhaps some questions about the way this person was identified and banned, and perhaps this would be illegal in states with better biometric protections such as Illinois. However I see technological whack-a-mole as a pretty weak argument against the more central issue. It doesn’t have to be a face, it could be cell phone location data or even satellite imagery moving forward.
Where it gets interesting is in the combination of the two. This new technology will enable blacklisting on a scale never seen before. And the inverse, tracking ideal customer behavior anywhere they go. A social credit score, privatized and packaged neatly into products sold by companies you’ll have never heard of. And just like with Equifax and Experian, you’re not the customer, you’re the product.