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by blato 6y 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 tot
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by blato 6y ago
The pictures are not what matter, what matters is the "face features <-> data" association. The harm ? With that data, any camera in the world pointed at you can find what you did in that store.
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by blato 6y ago
"Merchants should be able to hire humans that sit around looking at camera screens all day trying to find shopping patterns, shoplifters, etc." There is no identification part in what you describe. Generic stats (how many person i
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by blato 6y ago
This "_you should not have any expectations of privacy in public_" argument dates back when there was no facial recognition. The idea was people can see you in the street, maybe exceptionally a wierdo would take a photo of you but
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by blato 6y ago
Why you think people who want Epic to win are actually Epic fanboys ? This is not about Epic, this is about Apple. I couldn't care less about Epic. Apple is abusing its position, Epic wants to allow alternative stores and more competit
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by blato 6y ago
They signed but not willingly. This notion of "you signed = you consent" is ridiculous when you are in practice forced to sign. When there is a mono/duopoly there is no choice if you want to live or do business. You are force
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by blato 6y ago
I agree Mozilla screwed up. Especially in comparison to others such as Blender which managed to build something better than the proprietary alternatives by gathering fund through sponsors & donations without ever sacrificing their value
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by blato 6y ago
If some ex-Mozilla devs would set up a Patreon (or other platform) to work exclusively on Firefox I would donate. Basically do the same as Godot, Blender, etc. small team but focused on the project
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by blato 6y ago
> Going by “national security” reasons most countries should ban Facebook and google, not to mention amazon, Microsoft, oracle, Cisco etc. since the us government has already shown willingness and ability to spy on anything they can get