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Am I breaching the privacy of the people I saw at the grocery store yesterday because I can remember what their faces look like?

• holknas 5y ago
  no, nor are you doing it at a massive country wide scale into a datacenter.
  • mistrial9 5y ago
    more than one country-wide; side note, Southland Corp was convicted of slavery-related charges at a US location.. no similarity to stores in Asia of course! source: daily news, details on request
• capableweb 5y ago
  Are you a corporation going around asking for answers, photographing them and storing the images for long term storage without informing them about this? If not, then no, you are not breaching the privacy of anyone. I know in the US corporations are basically the same as humans, but the rest of the world haven't gotten than dystopian yet.
• A4ET8a8uTh0 5y ago
  As much as I dislike this line of argumentation, I think it is important to address it, because people seem to be applying wrong standards and comparisons, when it comes privacy.
• devmor 5y ago
  No, and neither would the corporation be if they were doing that. But you are not a corporation, nor are you a computer, nor are you storing that data in any appreciable amount or manner in which it could be referenced for the purposes of operating a corporation.
• onemoresoop 5y ago
  > Am I breaching the privacy of the people I saw at the grocery store yesterday because I can remember what their faces look like? You remembering faces is fine as it doesn't allow you to share with others what your mind "recorded". The amount of detail is questionable and you'd probably not remember everyone and everything but what strikes you as unusual/suspect etc.. Second, since you're not a machine you wouldn't be able to run algorithms on the data you recorded, you'd make a few inferences here and there and that is normal but you wouldn't be able to study the psychology of every customer that entered your store and use it against them.
  • blitzar 5y ago
    > you wouldn't be able to study the psychology of every customer that entered your store and use it against them. Is that not the role of the greeter that hounds you at the door?
• munificent 5y ago
  If a bit of mayo falls off my sandwich while I'm at the beach, have I created an oil spill? Scale and context matters.
• LeifCarrotson 5y ago
  No. It was wonderful when the person who worked the deli at a customer site where I worked for a few weeks learned my face and remembered what I liked to order. If I wanted privacy, though, I could get it. However, scale matters. An action being condoned between two individuals does not imply that it's acceptable when repeated millions of times. It shouldn't generate any outrage if a police officer tailed a suspect from a vehicle description and (publicly visible!) license plate number. It should generate outrage if the police department installs automated license plate readers at intersections throughout the city, and it becomes impossible to drive anywhere without being tracked.
  • lotsofpulp 5y ago
    >and it becomes impossible to drive anywhere without being tracked. Might want to start with the mobile networks saving your phone’s location history. I do not mind the use of license plate readers on cops’ cars, if cops are actually going to start pulling over people who have not paid car taxes or are not displaying license plates or do not have insurance. I would also like automated variate rate congestion tolling with license plate readers. That would help manage road capacity and grid lock, and make the costs of commuting more transparent.