[npip99]

As much as this technology is powerful, you can't make it "illegal" to take photos of a public park, and then bring them home and do whatever you want with them at home. That would just be absurd. Banning the software online only isn't really an option, because the knowledge on how the software works is already public. Anyone could rewrite the code on their own (Esp because 300 line neural nets, no libraries used, are still pretty dam good at facial recognition). The real privacy should absolutely be on the data side. There should not be public databases of profiles. If you have a big insta profile or you are a big youtuber, then yeah, you'll be public even through you're not a celebrity. That was choice. Random people should be private. No mugshots should be freely available, and photos of social media profiles should be obscured by default. Or, alternatively, we accept that this is the way things are.

[jermaustin1]

Policing the data should be the way forward. Just like I cannot take your PII and publish it without your consent, it should go also with your dataset of faces. The only trouble I see is what constitutes a face for facial recognition vs a face that is in the background of my Instagram photo?

Take this photo I took of the Manhattan Bridge in Dumbo [1], there are a few faces in that photograph that are quiet prominent. I'm protected in the US because it is in a public place, but in the future would I need to manually blur out the faces of those who do not sign a model release?

1: https://megapickles.photo/2018/06/03/dumbo-washington-street...

[OkGoDoIt]

Can you really not take PII and publish it without consent? Let’s say you found it somewhere publicly or in some other fashion where a user has not agreed to a privacy policy. I’m not saying you should do that or that it’s morally right, but are there actually legal protections against that outside of Europe?

[jjeaff]

Not that I know of. As long as what you publish isn't defamatory, there is no law against publishing pii.