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by lm28469 2213 days ago
Let's be real for 2 seconds here, this is pure nonsense. No court of law would do anything about "hey we arrested that guy because he has 2 eyes, a mouth and the same tshirt as that other guy who was protesting yesterday", if it comes to this you wouldn't even need a picture of blurred faces, just arrest whoever you want and provide forged evidences (or none) because that's exactly the same thing

And even then law enforcement are already filming them (cctv + from the air) and tracking their phones, the last thing you have to worry about is a 100% blurred face that no amount of technical power would be able to process or match back to you.

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picture A of an individual, unblurred, protesting peacefully.

picture B of a blurred individual from later on in the same protest, wearing the exact same clothes, commiting questionable acts, is circumstantially incriminating.

bikeshedding? on hacker news? no way