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It's a computation. Laws against it are unenforceable in general, absent draconian restrictions on computing devices.


This is HN. I fucking get it.

Facial recognition surveillance technology deployed in any public sphere should be expressly illegal. Period.


You clearly don't get it. What if facial recognition technology can be replaced with body recognition technology? Do you ban all forms of recognition technology? That would criminalize a lot of legitimate uses for machine learning.


No you don't get it: FR is a sensor, it is not authoritative, and was never intended to be by anyone other than science fiction authors. FR simply helps sift through many faces to help locate. A human still needs to be in the loop, or you are misusing the system. Lead developer of a leading enterprise FR system speaking.




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