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From my understanding, don't many places like big retail stores or malls already use facial recognition with their security systems? Whether it be to deal with flagging banned individuals who come on premises, or for things like tracking where people go in a mall. These kinds of things privately I think are already used a lot.

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There's a difference between recording everyone entering your space, and recording everyone in a public space.

There's probably a legal distinction, but personally I really don't want, say, my grocery store tracking how long I spent in which aisles to add to my advertising profile.

(Yes, I use rewards cards, but I have the option to not enter my phone number and pay cash if I want to exclude a particular purchase from that dataset.)

FYI with a lot of rewards cards you can just get the card and then do nothing but just use the card. Don't install an app and don't add a phone number. I've also been successful using fake phone numbers, even 555 ones.

Not really, it's antisocial behavior either way. This is just splitting hairs anywhere but a courtroom.

Anyway, a mall is a public space in the context of recording without consent. You have no reasonable expectation of privacy. The law needs to be updated to reflect the vastly more invasive technology we have now compared to when these statutes were written to reflect actual social mores.

> This is just splitting hairs anywhere but a courtroom

we were talking about the law, as I recall.

> Anyway, a mall is a public space

malls have been held to be public spaces, but not the insides of the stores.

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