Ban Facial Recognition at Festivals
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Ban Facial Recognition at Festivals
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Re: Ban Facial Recognition at Festivals
#2Ironic how they want your name and address and phone number for a petition to protect your privacy.
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#3Burning Man wants to use facial recognition? Uh... guess it's time we all got gas masks.
Re: Ban Facial Recognition at Festivals
#4Why are most of the tweets mentioning deportation? Surveillance aside, since when has it been a human right to attend a festival in a country you are not allowed to reside in?
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#5What is the original intent of the use of facial recognition at festivals?
Is it drug trafficking tracking? Terrorism tracking?
Satisfaction tracking?
Re: Ban Facial Recognition at Festivals
#6Ironic how they want your name and address and phone number for a petition to protect your privacy.
No need for snark, those are completely different situations.
Re: Ban Facial Recognition at Festivals
#7Why are most of the tweets mentioning deportation? Surveillance aside, since when has it been a human right to attend a festival in a country you are not allowed to reside in?
Someone always makes this comment every time illegal immigration is mentioned as if the law is the final word on what is just. And then they’ll complain about someone going to prison for being a whistleblower or pirating movies or cheer on the protestors in Hong Kong.
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#8The ban is not going to happen. It's an issue of public safety and venue liability. FR use at video game conferences is a must, because every one has a series of morons threatening the venue, the conference, and the host. It is very difficult today to host any type of public event without multiple individuals taking their displeasure to extreme levels and making threats they might carry out. For such reasons, FR is booming.
Re: Ban Facial Recognition at Festivals
#9Why are most of the tweets mentioning deportation? Surveillance aside, since when has it been a human right to attend a festival in a country you are not allowed to reside in?
It should be a human right to exist at a public place/event anywhere on Earth, regardless of which country you were born in.
Re: Ban Facial Recognition at Festivals
#10What is the original intent of the use of facial recognition at festivals? Is it drug trafficking tracking? Terrorism tracking? Satisfaction tracking?
People make threats against the hosts, the venue, the fans, the choice of location... you name it. Any simple displeasure gets elevated today with irrational anger and threats of violence. When one's festival receives threats of violence, and you know who made them, FR is a natural...