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Does this pertain specifically to facial recognition or does this also include other biometric markers? If solely facial recognition, then this means jack shit, as people will be identified with other measurements.

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Indeed, Schneier covered this in this essay:

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2020/01/were_bannin...

How about just stop tracking people! We aren't prisoners don't treat us as such.

We need to start tracking government officials... then maybe things will change.

Indeed, since public officials are actually accountable for the things they do, not the other way around. I would be cautious though, because many people just wouldn't want to become public servants anymore.

If they don't want to be tracked performing their job responsibilities I think we don't want them as public servants so good. Power comes with responsibility is a good system.

You’re 100% correct banning facial recognition means jack shit. I guess it’s a start though.

Chinese ‘gait recognition’ tech IDs people by how they walk https://apnews.com/bf75dd1c26c947b7826d270a16e2658a

> Chinese ‘gait recognition’ tech IDs people by how they walk https://apnews.com/bf75dd1c26c947b7826d270a16e2658a

An ex-CIA disguise specialist said that you can change your gait by putting a pebble in your shoe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JASUsVY5YJ8

Her comments were targeting human recognition, and I speculate that one of the reasons she was allowed to share her disguise techniques is that maybe they're ineffective against automated facial recognition and therefore obsolete.

so, one has to be on a scooter and inside a half transparent balloon. Almost like haut-women of Cetaganda. Naturally it was allowed only for that higher caste.

Just wait for the scooter recognition technology...

And bad journalism gets repeated: 'gait recognition' is fraud now, it was something until proved to be unreliable and easily defeated several years ago. nobody peddling gait recognition is taken seriously - it is almost a line in the sand for technical idiots trying to cash in, not actual members of the security industry, just tech opportunists.

Easily defeated if you make the effort. Do you want a world where we have to consciously change our gait to "easily defeat" the recognition AI? If not, then it should be banned too.

All one needs is different pairs of shoes worn on different days.

It doesn't mean jack shit... it's a start that can be improved upon.

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