Facial recognition technology is everywhere, and it may not be legal

Re:Facial recognition technology is everywhere, and it may n... by pjc50 on Friday June 12, 2015 @09:02AM (#9705570)

Shift to what, though? This is a bit like the vague calls to overthrow capitalism and replace it with something nicer. We're to overthrow privacy and replace it with .. what? We're really not ready for Culture-style machine-enforced morality.

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Re:Facial recognition technology is everywhere, and it may n... by girvo on Friday June 12, 2015 @09:47AM (#9705794)

Radical transparency, perhaps. Some people far smarter than myself have made decent cases for it.

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Re:Facial recognition technology is everywhere, and it may n... by pjc50 on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:13AM (#9705968)

Radical transparency sounds superficially reasonable (David Brin passim), but we need a good solution to weaponised public shaming while we're at it.

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