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by umvi 2455 days ago
My point is that there is absolutely no difference between:

- cameras that observe your every move and sell off facial recognition and other data to third parties

- brain indexing/dumping tech that turns people into living cameras that are capable of doing the above.

Thus, if we decide that it is illegal to automatically collect information on people using computers, it shouldn't matter if the computer is electronic or biological in nature, it's a violation of the law either way. If companies aren't allowed to store PII about people without their consent, neither should indexable brains be able to store PII about people without their consent. It's quite simple.