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Your argument implies that 'it's the gay person's fault for getting caught,' so that tracking organisations have less responsibility for their actions. Instead

Your argument implies that 'it's the gay person's fault for getting caught,' so that tracking organisations have less responsibility for their actions. Instead of Saudi Arabia, how about the United States 100 years ago? It is not as though there are no more harmless activities for people to participate in that they will suffer for. A comparatively trivial but important example: how about tracking your employees movements to punish them for talking to other companies? Is that a 'you should know your risks' situation too?

pixl97 7y ago
Hell, we cant predict what the US will be like 10 years in the future. Data getting deleted is a good thing.
imgabe 7y ago
It implies no such thing. There is no blame because this is a contrived hypothetical that makes a number of ridiculous assumptions. 1. That someone going to a gay club in NYC later decides to go to Saudi Arabia, knowing full well that the government there is actively hostile to them. 2. That the government of Saudi Arabia somehow has access to facial recognition data from the NYPD. 3. This data for some reason includes not only mugshots directly collected by the NYPD (which was what TFA was actually about) but also private survellience footage from gay clubs, and this footage is clear enough to make a match (remember people tend to go to clubs at night) 4. The government of Saudi Arabia decides that they need to expend a tremendous amount of computing resources to run facial recognition of all of their survellience footage of every face in their country against this fictional database that they somehow obtained. 5. Further they conclude that a single facial recognition match, which is known the flawed, of a person in the vicinity of a gay club is sufficient to convict someone. There are real privacy concerns yes, but this is absurdist fearmongering and deserves to be ridiculed.

pixl97 7y ago

Hell, we cant predict what the US will be like 10 years in the future. Data getting deleted is a good thing.

imgabe 7y ago

It implies no such thing. There is no blame because this is a contrived hypothetical that makes a number of ridiculous assumptions. 1. That someone going to a gay club in NYC later decides to go to Saudi Arabia, knowing full well that the government there is actively hostile to them. 2. That the government of Saudi Arabia somehow has access to facial recognition data from the NYPD. 3. This data for some reason includes not only mugshots directly collected by the NYPD (which was what TFA was actually about) but also private survellience footage from gay clubs, and this footage is clear enough to make a match (remember people tend to go to clubs at night) 4. The government of Saudi Arabia decides that they need to expend a tremendous amount of computing resources to run facial recognition of all of their survellience footage of every face in their country against this fictional database that they somehow obtained. 5. Further they conclude that a single facial recognition match, which is known the flawed, of a person in the vicinity of a gay club is sufficient to convict someone. There are real privacy concerns yes, but this is absurdist fearmongering and deserves to be ridiculed.