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Comment by jollyllama | Hacker News Reader

The facial recognition isn't on the drone, the cop just uploads the footage to a tagging service *trollface*

Illinois has very strong anti facial recognition / biometric law. Theres been a lot of class action lawsuits recently. I got like $300 from the facebook settlement alone.

So this loophole wouldn't work either fortunately

This is true, but that law (BIPA) applies to private entities. i.e., government orgs and contractors are exempt. Regardless, this new legislation is good. I would like to see the complete inclusion of government organizations into needing to acquire consent.

https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=3004&C...

The law covers both scenarios, as shown in the linked text:

> A law enforcement agency operating a drone under this Act is prohibited from using, during a flight, onboard facial recognition software that works in conjunction with the drone. A law enforcement agency operating a drone under this Act is prohibited from using any information gathered by a drone with any facial recognition software

That depends on the grouping of clauses.

Grouped as (prohibited from using any information gathered by a drone) (with any facial recognition software), you might be right.

Grouped as (prohibited from using any information gathered by a (drone with any facial recognition software)), I don't think you're right. Personally, I would naturally group the clauses in this way and conclude that off-drone facial recognition was not effectively barred by this statute but onboard facial recognition was.

I got a $400 settlement from Facebook when they did facial recognition in violation of a similar law. IANAL but if / when they try it I will probably get another settlement.

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