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prophesi on Jan 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: European Union Calls for Five Year Strict Ban on F...

Yeah. Facial recognition by itself is fine, but let them be in hot water if they use it for identifying others.

It's similar to how GDPR and similar laws operate. Collecting the data is fine, but you'll get in trouble if you process & distribute that data without clearly notifying your users.

tjoff on Jan 23, 2020 [–]

Who else are they going to identify, themselves?

prophesi on Jan 23, 2020 | | [–]

I don't know what you're trying to say. We're talking about corporate/state surveillance and privacy violations here.

ReverseCold on Jan 23, 2020 | | [–]

Maybe they're talking about something like Face ID on an iPhone? You can use it to identify yourself.

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