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What you can do in your own time is one thing, what you can do commercially is another. Encryption is something you do by yourself or with another consenting p

What you can do in your own time is one thing, what you can do commercially is another. Encryption is something you do by yourself or with another consenting party, facial recognition is something you do to someone else without their permission and possibly use for nefarious purposes. There's nothing wrong with outlawing certain activities from the commercial sphere, or any sphere. It's not an assault on your freedom, its protection of my privacy? It's illegal to stalk and harass people in person or over the phone. It's illegal to serve people undercooked food or raw milk or whatever. It's illegal to breach HIPAA. Are you next going to say its terrible that you can't access my medical records for your startup? How about security cameras and genitalia recognition in the bathrooms at restaurants, is that cool too?

msellout 11y ago
It's illegal to stalk and harass, it's not illegal to make phone calls. The issue is not facial recognition, it's the misuse. I'm all for gun control, not gun ban. Cameras in the bathroom? Fine. Whatever. If that's the new normal, then I guess I'll get over it. Are you saying that will now be legalized? I'm pretty sure we don't need any new laws to prevent cameras in changing rooms. The "scary" scenarios that have been described in the other threads are already illegal for other reasons -- harassment, redlining (racial profiling), spam, etc.
- PostOnce 11y ago
  You'll get over cameras in the bathroom? You should be able to collect any data you want, and use it however you want? Why not start a business face-recognizing people who show up at battered women's shelters and selling access online for $50? Or how about completely legally standing a public street and making notes of the schedules of when people are and are not home, and selling access to that to probable burglars, should that also be legal? The use of information can and should be regulated. Everything from insider trading to medical privacy.
  - msellout 11y ago
    People's opinions are remarkably malleable. Read some accounts of how soldiers change during and after fighting. Watch how the audience acts at a rock show. Check out the people on a nude beach vs the sidewalk just off the beach. Normal and acceptable is entirely situational. Walking in the street was normal. After the ad campaigns of the auto industry, we call it jaywalking. I'm all for regulating (mis)use of information, but not the collection of information.

msellout 11y ago

It's illegal to stalk and harass, it's not illegal to make phone calls. The issue is not facial recognition, it's the misuse. I'm all for gun control, not gun ban. Cameras in the bathroom? Fine. Whatever. If that's the new normal, then I guess I'll get over it. Are you saying that will now be legalized? I'm pretty sure we don't need any new laws to prevent cameras in changing rooms. The "scary" scenarios that have been described in the other threads are already illegal for other reasons -- harassment, redlining (racial profiling), spam, etc.

PostOnce 11y ago
You'll get over cameras in the bathroom? You should be able to collect any data you want, and use it however you want? Why not start a business face-recognizing people who show up at battered women's shelters and selling access online for $50? Or how about completely legally standing a public street and making notes of the schedules of when people are and are not home, and selling access to that to probable burglars, should that also be legal? The use of information can and should be regulated. Everything from insider trading to medical privacy.
- msellout 11y ago
  People's opinions are remarkably malleable. Read some accounts of how soldiers change during and after fighting. Watch how the audience acts at a rock show. Check out the people on a nude beach vs the sidewalk just off the beach. Normal and acceptable is entirely situational. Walking in the street was normal. After the ad campaigns of the auto industry, we call it jaywalking. I'm all for regulating (mis)use of information, but not the collection of information.