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What would such a ban look like? A private company can surely link its own cameras and data to create a private use database of undesirables. I’m certain that
by koolba 8mo ago
What would such a ban look like?
A private company can surely link its own cameras and data to create a private use database of undesirables. I’m certain that Walmart and friends do exactly this already. It’s the large scale version of the Polaroids behind the counter.
- bad_haircut72 8mo agowouldnt "Any person found to have implemented a system which violates the rights of people in xyz way will be punished with imrisonment" work ?
- koolba 8mo agoIn what way? A business can refuse to service any individual as long as it’s not a direct violation of things like civil rights laws.
- digiown 8mo agoThe whole point of a regulation is to ban something they are currently allowed to do. There was a time before the civil rights laws where you can discriminate by race, you know.
- scarecrowbob 8mo agoIt's possible to understand these things as "civil rights", unless you have a very narrow and likely pejorative understanding of the term.
- koolba 8mo agoRights don’t entirely disappear because a group of individuals decides to form a collective entity. That’s the heart of the Citizen’s United decision. If an individual can aggregate data about his customers and make a decision to not serve a known offender, then surely a group of individuals can do the same. That’s their right. Again, this is not discrimination if it’s done for specific individuals, even if it’s done using data collected in aggregate. Banning a protected group wouldn’t be illegal. But banning a specific person would not. Whether it’s legal to sell that same data as a list of undesirables is the open untested question.
- digiown 8mo agoIt can be banned explicitly as a regulation on surveillance cameras. Like: - The footage must be secured / only stored locally, and can only be used in legal proceedings or liability, and can be stored for maximum 1 (or a different number) year - It cannot be sold or used to train AI or processed for marketing or other purposes without consent of all involved (in practice impossible). - And no people cannot "agree" to things by just entering the premises or view - It is illegal to make decisions based on illegally obtained (as per above) analytics, like refusing entry/membership/service, with a private right of action