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Retailers want to be able to scan your face without your permission
After more than a year of discussions, all nine privacy advocates have stormed out of a government-organized “multi-stakeholder process” to sort out details around the best practices for facial recognition technology. The sticking point was that corporations apparently refused to concede that there was any scenario during which a person’s consent to scan their face was needed.
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There's not much of a difference between scanning someone's face and taking their picture. Facial recognition just means that you're taking that picture and looking at it using automation to quantify the attributes of that picture. I mean if you say people can't use facial recognition on their pictures and videos you're saying that they are unable to look at their pictures and identify people in those pictures; which is nonsense. The primary reason why they're recording these things is to identify people.
Don't want your face scanned? Don't shop at companies who scan your face.
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/19/1071337156806.html
Gilette was taking pictures of customers who grabbed their products from the shelf.