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by nusq
1677 days ago
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You make it sound like the National Data Protection Commission warnings of it being unconstitutional a minor thing.... If you read the commission comments on the law you will see several examples of how the video surveillance systems in Portugal are miss managed and abused. This law opens the door to the use of AI in these systems and with all it's ethical issues. After all, Portugal is not an unsafe country and local politicians are abusing the false sense of security that the video surveillance systems bring to win a few more votes, disregarding all the medium and long term consequences. |
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To clarify, the law WAS awful, but when this was posted here on HN it was already announced that the only thing that PSD (opposing political party) was willing to approve was the use body-cams and wildfires surveillance, and that the CNPD had already deem it unconstitutional.
As it stands now (and it might change, obviously) it seems like none of the "backdoors" will make it to the final law.
So my argument is that this is a non-issue at the moment, but again, it might change because #politics.
And I can't find a source for this, but from what I remember this law was put forward after we had some security issues in the bar areas of Porto and Lisbon, and the police requested more video surveillance to fix it. I believe the Data Protection Commission didn't approved it, so now here we are.