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UK’s GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition

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Re: UK’s GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The UK isn't even scrapping the "bendy banana" law https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bendy-bananas-brexit-uk-e...

The EU never banned bananas based on shape. It’s a myth

** lie

Re: UK’s GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition

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post #6

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> blue passports Which are made in Poland. What a magnificent Brexit win!

And they’re hardly blue. Closer to black.

And very tacky.

Literally. Tacky. Like 20 year old rubberised plastic going rotten.

I felt compelled to buy a passport cover so I wasn't grossed out by the cover.

Re: UK’s GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition

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Writing a law that says it is illegal to do facial recognition with a computer, but okay do use humans to recognise other humans is stupid.

The end result is you'll just have sweatshops of people watching CCTV streams clicking matching face images because it's illegal to get a computer to do it automatically.

Re: UK’s GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition

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This kind of thing was always my biggest worry going into Brexit. The country has to reimplement a ton of regulation and you know the government and its various hangers on won’t be able to resist “tweaking” every law and regulation to better favour them.

Workers rights, human rights… it’s all up for negotiation now. By people who aren’t listening to you.

Re: UK’s GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition

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This kind of thing was always my biggest worry going into Brexit. The country has to reimplement a ton of regulation and you know the government and its various hangers on won’t be able to resist “tweaking” every law and regulation to better favour them. Workers rights, human rights… it’s all up for negotiation now. By people who aren’t listening to you.

When the UK was in the EU, I was protected from some of the worst excesses of the UK government. The UK didn't leave the EU to make those protections stronger...
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