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by imgabe 2066 days ago
> Today, taking the picture of someone = taking biometric data like fingerprint or DNA. This allows you to have a total control over that person.

How does a picture grant total control? Let's say I have a picture of you right now. How do I use that picture to either force you to do something against your will, or prevent you from doing something?
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blato 2066 days ago
People are being detained & tortured because they've been recognised on footage of public demonstrations.

Looking at China it's pretty clear how having a model of peoples face with facial recognition has been key for their total control of the population

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imgabe 2066 days ago
This is a government problem, not a privacy problem. If your government is intent on detaining and torturing dissidents, then privacy laws aren't going to stop them. Who do you think makes and enforces the law? The solution to that is to change your government.
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b112 2066 days ago
The US is one of the most democratic nations on Earth.

The NSA spies on its own citizens, and won't even tell congress how.

https://ca.reuters.com/article/ctech-us-usa-security-congres...

The CBP is buying location data on US citizens, tracking them without a warrant, country wide (not just at borders), and won't say why/how:

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/dems-call-for-cbp-location-data-in...

Police, the FBI, and more use stingrays without warrants. The NSA works extensively to destroy encryption, and even have back doors into products for full, unlimited, real-time breaking of encryption.

I could post endless stories about this. Different US agencies, different data, different purposes for that data.

Put them all together.

Now consider that some of these agencies are "fighting" with democratically elected officials. Refusing to comply with democratically elected senators, congressmen, officials. State officials have even less sway.

This data is quite simply too powerful to be in anyone's hands. Literally, too powerful.

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imgabe 2066 days ago
So if we make it illegal for the mall to have security cameras then the NSA will stop spying on people?
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0xCMP 2066 days ago
No, you make the data collection illegal and with liability like it appears Canada already did hence why this company is in trouble with regulators.

Data should be legally made in to toxic waste we all know it should be treated as.

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imgabe 2065 days ago
Again, if the worry is about a corrupt and hostile government, I fail to see what making it illegal accomplishes. Who do you think the regulators are?

Yes, regulation is great with a just and fair government. If the government can't be trusted, then neither can the regulations. If we can't trust the government, then we need to replace it with one we can trust.

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kapuasuite 2065 days ago
> Data should be legally made in to toxic waste we all know it should be treated as.

The vast majority of people do not care about privacy though, at least not to the extent that “tech” people seem to.

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