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Taylor Swift And The PRC: Unregulated Facial Recognition Is Some Scary $H!T

U
Undisclosed #1
Dec 15, 2018

Taylor Swift's security team uses FR to identify stalkers in concert venues and be able to intercede before trouble occurs.

The PRC uses FR to oppress minorities.

Some kind of regulation is needed... but what can realistically be done?

thoughts?

UM
Undisclosed Manufacturer #2
Dec 15, 2018

My solution is simple...  Don't go to Taylor Swift concerts.  

To me, complaining about stuff like this is like complaining about how much data Amazon or Facebook collect about you as you willingly sign on to be a consumer of their brand.  People who shell out money online to go to her concert give up far more data than their face identity at the moment of transaction than they did at the moment a surveillance camera recorded them and referenced them against a known stalker list.

Any additional demographic marketing data they collected about you was entirely legitimate as detailed in the comprehensive Terms and Conditions you agreed to when you bought the ticket as well as clearly spelled out in legible micro print at the bottom of, and on the back of, the ticket you printed and used for entry to the concert.  :)

Our government needs to be regulated from using tech like this for the "Scary $H!T" that the Chinese government uses it for.  Not for harvesting demographic marketing data from eager and willing consumers who gladly share their life with a celebrity who provides them sparkly, flashy, pseudo-entertainment.

You shouldn't conflate the two things.

U
Undisclosed #1
Dec 16, 2018

"Our government needs to be regulated from using tech like this for the "Scary $H!T" that the Chinese government uses it for. Not for harvesting demographic marketing data from eager and willing consumers who gladly share their life with a celebrity who provides them sparkly, flashy, pseudo-entertainment."

i'm not sure how to reply to that jumble of apparent points. I am not arguing everything that you are (I don't think).

My simple point is that FR is an emerging and unregulated technology - and that it can be used for both good and bad as the users of the technology see fit.

hence my urging for at least some kind of regulation in the use of this technology.

the demographic marketing data issue you raise, while valid, is not germane to my OP.

 

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