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The gross invasion of privacy is not taking pictures of people in public spaces. It's cross-referencing those pictures against images people have uploaded to va
by AndrewBissell 7y ago
The gross invasion of privacy is not taking pictures of people in public spaces. It's cross-referencing those pictures against images people have uploaded to various online services, many of them before this kind of use in facial recognition databases had even been conceived by anyone except science fiction writers.
- quotemstr 7y agoIf it's not a privacy violation when I do it with my eyes and my brain, it's not a privacy violation when I do it with my computer.
- AndrewBissell 7y agoWhen lone individuals go trawling social media sites for pictures of some random stranger they met on the street, this is commonly understood as creepy at best and (especially to the extent they are violating the terms of the platforms) an invasion of privacy at worst.