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Facial recognition is just math. Why are people trying to classify certain matrices as illegal? It seems this was a convincing argument for a lot of people in

• otterley 7y ago
  Facial recognition is “just math” in the same sense as being punched in the face is “just physics.” It’s not the natural properties that concern people; it’s the societal effects, political effects, and impacts on liberty that concern people.
• amelius 7y ago
  It's not the math that is illegal, but the application of it. And even in some cases math itself can be illegal. For example digital images can be written as large integers, and we know that in some jurisdictions, it is illegal to have some types of images in one's possession.
• nexuist 7y ago
  >Why are people trying to classify certain matrices as illegal? Certain encryption algorithms, which are at their core applied math, are still illegal to export to this day to certain countries such as Iran. They are regulated and banned under the same treaties that apply to nuclear weapons. If you publish an app to Apple's App Store, for example, you have to sign a waiver explaining if your app uses encryption (such as for SSL/TLS) before being allowed to publish in international markets. Not saying it is right, but there is definitely legal precedent to ban mathematical knowledge at the international level. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...