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They should ban facial recognition though, in all and every context where the owner of the face has not given explicit consent. Nothing good can come of it.
by yholio 5y ago
They should ban facial recognition though, in all and every context where the owner of the face has not given explicit consent. Nothing good can come of it.
- abecedarius 5y agoIf I've seen your face before, how can I help but recognize it? This violates freedom of thought.
- yholio 5y agoIf I can walk in a crowded mall with my feet, why can't I drive my 18-wheeler there? Traffic laws violate freedom of movement.
- raxxorrax 5y agoThis is fundamentally different than digital processing because of multiple reasons.
- abecedarius 5y agoPortable brain-computer interfaces aren't common yet, but do you think they can't be? Where's the bright line between that sort of thing and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann_(inventor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann_(inventor)? There may be space for a good law somewhere in this area. But you should be really leery of outlawing a particular kind of computation, unless you're cool with thoughtcrime, because that's what it will by default become over time, just as inflation made laws with hardcoded dollar figures become quite different without ever changing the law.
- raxxorrax 5y agoI prefer to deal with that problem when we arrive there. Most neurologists tell me there is still some way to go despite significant advancements. Same with AI, today's reality is that machines are still completely incapable of thought. But anticipatory I would still think there is a difference because constant surveillance would still bind your time.
- mrighele 5y agoShouldn't this already be covered by GDPR thought? While we usually associate it to the Internet, tracking and cookies, from what I understand it is much more general and should include facial recognition (but of course IANAL etc.)
- Bellamy 5y agoShould or shouldn't. I guess they want to make it clear to everyone. Good call.
- randomswede 5y agoYour face biometrics probably[] constitute PII. Your gait biometrics probably[] constitute PII. [*] I am not a lawyer, nor have I ever played one on television. This is not legal advice.
- mbostleman 5y agoSorry to be cynical, but this will not stop the use of the technology. No universal ban like this will happen. What will happen is that the government(s) will end up being the sole user of it via a plea to the public for some sort of safety or security that "benefits" them.
- bsenftner 5y agoIt's pretty hard to ban - it is not that hard a problem to crack with modern processing and an intermediate understanding of computer vision. The issues related to skin tone bias are practically old news now, with the stress the international press placed on the issue, addressing problem areas and their fixes are well documented. I'd go as far as saying FR is at stage 3 of 5 for the technology life cycle: early majority. Its is already ubiquitous, inside commodity mobile camera chipsets and accessible with a little more than a page of python anywhere opencv can be installed.
- raxxorrax 5y agoOpenCV doesn't deserve to be associated with such trivial applications.