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If you outlaw facial recognition, only outlaws will recognize faces. Consider how gun control laws have some efficacy because not everyone is a skilled gunsmith
by omniglottal 4y ago
If you outlaw facial recognition, only outlaws will recognize faces.
Consider how gun control laws have some efficacy because not everyone is a skilled gunsmith with machining equipment. Someone with a mill/lathe in their garage can still make them.
Software allows even unskilled people to do the thing. This can be performed today with off-the-shelf, existing hatdware and open-source software. Attempting to outlaw its use is about like trying to close Pandora's box. The horses are already out of the barn on this one...
- amluto 4y agoOn the other hand, if you outlaw the collection, retention, and sale, transfer, or other trafficking in information derived from large scale face recognition, then the availability of the information will decrease radically. People deploy or obtain access to large scale privacy-invading data sets because they can legally monetize it. If it becomes illegal to collect the data and illegal to be on either side of a transaction, then the information becomes a liability instead of an asset. And outlaws don’t have enormous fleets of cameras.
- giantg2 4y agoExcept you don't have access to the datases of identities as an individual (without paying a lot). That's the value. Who cares if someone runs facial recognition if they don't have a database to tie it to your PII. It's also a big difference based on what powers the user legally has (police vs individual).