Sounds like fascism to me.
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General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Highly illegal in Europe, obvs. Looking forward to finding out how this will go in the US.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
What’s highly illegal in Europe? Taking a photo or using publicly available images to match that photo to?
As far as I know those things are not illegal, although as a Brit I wouldn’t be surprised if they label this terrorism lol
General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Taking a photo for that purpose is likely out.
Matching it to any publically available images is definitely out.
Creating a database of face images for searching: Nope.
Using this system is very problematic.
Some of this is because of the GDPR. So it’s likely to be illegal in the UK, as well. And some is because of the AI Act (in particular 4. but also 3. to some degree). That’s not something that needs to concern Brits.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I’d have to research 4, but I know for a fact taking a photo of someone in public is protected as you have no right to privacy in public, it’s also not the subjects business what I intend to do with it, so things like posting online might be subject to GDPR but if i wanted to build an app like the one in this post then I would do what they did and have it all on device so it technically isn’t uploaded anywhere.
I would need a law showing that matching a face against publicly available datasets of faces is illegal as that seems insane and difficult to police.
Yes, 3 I agree with as it would fall under GDPR as identifiable information.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Do you remember why you “know” this? Just curious.
Surely you have noticed that there is a lot of criticism of the GDPR and EU tech regulation.