1. No, you have asserted multiple times in this discussion that it's impossible to regulate facial recognition technology. e.g: > The former is a technologica

1. No, you have asserted multiple times in this discussion that it's impossible to regulate facial recognition technology. e.g: > The former is a technological reality. It's impossible to legislate away devices who can do that[facial recognition]. Please explain that statement, as it seems like total nonsense to me. My point about explosives is that just because something is "a technological reality", or that there's no way to physically prevent people from implementing something, that in no way makes it immune from legislation. We can legislate whatever we want. Here's a law which would make it impossible for JetBlue to implement this system: "No organization shall be permitted to use an automated system to identify individuals using an image of their face." 2. I think you're missing the point with your larger argument. It seems as if you are saying: we should not be concerned about JetBlue's use of this technology because this use-case in particular does not constitute the dystopian Orwellian potential of facial recognition technology. The point is not that this is the use-case which crosses that line, the point is that it is a big step in that direction, and has happened without a public discussion of where exactly the line should be. 3. You say w.r.t. GDPR: > Of course, criminal and negligent businesses can totally abuse your personal data, often without consequences. But they can't do so legitimately and they don't have access to the legal and open economy. That's an argument in favor of regulating facial recognition technology itself isn't it? We can allow the technology to be normalized, and just hope everyone is following regulations about not abusing access to our personal data. But given what has been revealed about PRISM and other government spying programs, it's hard to imagine that such data would not be abused if it existed. On the other hand, we could agree not to make facial recognition a part of our daily lives, or to put very careful boundaries around its use, and make it that much harder for it to be abused.