Re:You can opt out of airport face scans
by JohnFen on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @10:05AM
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> Do you think that the thousands of cameras you encounter every day aren’t doing this already?
Of course that's happening. It's still worthwhile to reduce the amount of this sort of thing where possible, though.
> I think the aim for culture is to limit what we can do with these data, rather than to try to prevent collection of these data.
I agree that the real, serious issue isn't the photos themselves as much as the databases that hold them.
That said, why not address both problems? Particularly since we can't ever actually know if photos are being stored or not, but we (usually) can see the camera. In terms of verifiability, restricting the use of cameras is better than restricting the use of the data.
Of course that's happening. It's still worthwhile to reduce the amount of this sort of thing where possible, though.
> I think the aim for culture is to limit what we can do with these data, rather than to try to prevent collection of these data.
I agree that the real, serious issue isn't the photos themselves as much as the databases that hold them.
That said, why not address both problems? Particularly since we can't ever actually know if photos are being stored or not, but we (usually) can see the camera. In terms of verifiability, restricting the use of cameras is better than restricting the use of the data.