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dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I know for a fact

Do you remember why you “know” this? Just curious.

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.

Surely you have noticed that there is a lot of criticism of the GDPR and EU tech regulation.

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- OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Commercial versions of these systems exist in the UK.
  
  theguardian.com/…/shopper-facewatch-watchlist-39p…
  
  The Gdpr and AI act make these things harder to do, but not automatically illegal.
  
  Surely you have noticed that there is a lot of criticism of the GDPR and EU tech regulation.
  
  Yeah, and some of it is even true.
  
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  - General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    As I wrote, the UK does not have the AI Act. This is also a case where EU GDPR and UK GDPR diverge.
    
    Finally, I never claimed it’s automatically illegal.
    
    Yeah, and some of it is even true.
    
    Most of it, in my experience. I do not know why this community is so committed to disinformation.
    
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- dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I know that because I do a lot of street photography and there is no law in the UK forbidding photography of people in public spaces.
  
  Again show me in GDPR where it expressly forbids marching a face to a public dataset.
  
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  - General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    I know that because I do a lot of street photography and there is no law in the UK forbidding photography of people in public spaces,
    
    I didn’t write there was one. It sounds like you “know” that photography is “protected” because you need that to be true.
    
    it’s quite easy for you to Google this
    
    Indeed. For anyone who’s not good at googling things, I recommend the UK ICO.
    
    but I can’t provide you with a law condoning it as that’s not how it works.
    
    That’s true. You can’t because you are wrong. You should know that your take on the GDPR is nonsense. It sounds like you violate it on a habitual basis.
    
    Again show me in GDPR where it expressly forbids marching a face to a public dataset.
    
    What do you mean “again”?
    
    The GDPR forbids this in, of course, Article 6 and, more particularly, Article 9, but also gives exceptions.
    
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    dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You seem to want to me prove that a law doesn’t exist where it’s much easier for you to show me a law doesn’t exist.
    
    You can read this House of Commons debate on the topic Here
    
    Police officers have the discretion to ask people not to take photographs for public safety or security reasons, but the taking of photographs in a public place is not subject to any rule or statute. There are no legal restrictions on photography in a public place, and there is no presumption of privacy for individuals in a public place
    
    Or you can read This debate from the House of Lords.
    
    The taking of photographs in a public place is not subject to any rules or statute. There are no legal restrictions on photography in a public place … and the Home Secretary … expressed our desire to ensure that people are free and able to take photographs in public places
    
    Seems pretty simple really and based on your lack of understanding of this then i have to assume you don’t understand the other topics you mention and therefore without you providing evidence I’ll go about my day.
    
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