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Re:Track Surveillance (Flock Cameras) Tech in Local Governme... by renewiltord on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @05:36PM (#46295609)
That's not face recognition. That's face detection. It just detects faces and sticks a label from a pre-selected list. Come on, this doesn't even pass the basic smell test. "Facial recognition" my ass. It doesn't recognize anyone. I could build this in a cave with scraps. There's a huge difference between the two: recognition means you have found a known person, detection means you found a person.

That's about the difference between eating sodium chloride and eating sodium.

Re:Track Surveillance (Flock Cameras) Tech in Local Governme... by marcellus23 on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @04:49PM (#46306022)
You're right but I don't understand why you're so hostile about it. At any rate, it's still making the same point regardless.
Re:Track Surveillance (Flock Cameras) Tech in Local Governme... by renewiltord on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @05:33PM (#46306501)
This kind of privacy slop is overly popular in tech circles. Each participant just posts uninformed garbage and then they link to each other with “citations” for sources that are wholly made up. It’s really reducing the quality of information on this website that it’s now full of junior engineers and interns.

Those guys always obsess over CVEs and privacy and they’re always wrong about everything but have learned to mimic the language of people who know stuff. “There’s some evidence” / “here’s a source”. Ugh. Can’t stand it.