I always have trouble with the Privacy advocates when they start trying to protect something that is public. More so than fingerprints, facial features are shown anytime we step outside the door. Apple captures them to open a door to their iPhones. How can it be that privacy applies to something that is part of our physical makeup?
You can, as the paparazzi do all the time, take pictures of the most intimate moments of a superstar's life because those images belong to the collector of them. If someone comes along while I stand outside of a political meeting of my friends takes a picture of us, that picture does not belong to me. It does make me uncomfortable, because it feels like I'm being spied upon. Those people can buy facial recognition software and do their own identification, just like the Chinese do almost everywhere you walk there, when you buy something expensive, or when you go a train to someplace you aren't supposed to go. It isn't facial recognition that is the problem with privacy, it is the use of that technology to do things other than identify a person.
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