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by ChuckMcM 4660 days ago
Can we just not go there? There is a qualitative difference between "being in public" and "being recorded while in public" and "being recorded in public over an extended period of time."

You take a picture on the beach and catch me in the frame, I'm totally fine with that, you take pictures of that beach every day for a year and then put IDs on every 'face' so that you've got a history of everyone who has been to the beach, I'm much less comfortable with that, you create an API so that someone can send you a picture of a face and you will give them the history of that face at the beach for the last 12 months, I've got a huge problem with that.
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Retric 4660 days ago
FYI: You where just trolled. Sure, it feels go to respond, but it's also a waste of everyone's time to read a troll and the responses. It also promotes them making more comments like that.

Aka: Don't feed the trolls.

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diminoten 4660 days ago
I'm not a troll, I just know there is no legal precedent for this public privacy idea, and that there is no moral grounds for it as a human right.

Someone who's been around here as long as you have should know better than to cry troll so quickly.

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