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Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams
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Re: Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams
#72This is beyond silly. You could be using your phone to factcheck something that relates to the ongoing discussion. Or having a side-chat with another member, privately expressing/requesting an opinion to provide context. Or to take quick notes. Or, nowadays, you might even be using an AI to keep a running summary of what the speaker has been rambling about in the last 50 minutes, translated from 'buzzspeak' to 'human…
I agree with you, but this doesn't mean this data is useless.
You could could count how many people are using their phones by speaker.
"When Alice speaks 18% of the members use their phones for more than 15 minutes, but when Bob speaks the rate is 27%." could be a proxy to understand how important the parliament thinks the subject/speaker is.
Re: Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams
#73Fun fact: this is quite likely illegal to do in the EU. If it should or should not be legal is a different question, but my understanding of present day law makes this not permissible.
Which law makes this illegal? Presumably the live stream is setup by the flemish government themselves, and they're all public figures acting in a public capacity. Maybe there is something else here, or some detail of Belgian law, but from the outside it doesn't seem there is much of a privacy argument.
There's a brand new AI law too. You'd likely need explicit consent of these people to have their personal data (face) processed by AI.
Re: Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams
#74Fun fact: this is quite likely illegal to do in the EU. If it should or should not be legal is a different question, but my understanding of present day law makes this not permissible.
It's not illegal, but unlawful for data controllers to process such personal data without free permission. But in this case there's likely an exception in GDPR article 85, for "For processing carried out for journalistic purposes or the purpose of academic artistic or literary expression" [1]. [1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj/eng#art_85
Oh I can use your personal private data for artistic expression?!?
Doubtful.
Re: Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams
#75this kind of surveillance is childish and a bit creepy too
These people are elected and paid more than enough to pay attention. If they can’t be bothered doing their job, we’ll elect someone else who can.
You don't know if they're doing their job from a photo. Perhaps they're replying to constituents, reading the details of the law they are being asked to vote on, checking with colleagues on the status of votes, etc. You don't know. It's just harassment without facts.
Re: Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams
#76Re: Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Sure, but I am tired of there being two set of rules for those with power and those without it. Can you elaborate on how this project is going to impact that? What change do you expect will come about from it?
Can you elaborate on how this is not obvious to you? Sorry but this feels borderline concern-trollish.
It was an honest question, and no, your implication is not obvious to me. Let's assume best intent instead of defaulting to "no, you."
Re: Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams
#78This is beyond silly. You could be using your phone to factcheck something that relates to the ongoing discussion. Or having a side-chat with another member, privately expressing/requesting an opinion to provide context. Or to take quick notes. Or, nowadays, you might even be using an AI to keep a running summary of what the speaker has been rambling about in the last 50 minutes, translated from 'buzzspeak' to 'human…
I agree with you, but this doesn't mean this data is useless. You could could count how many people are using their phones by speaker. "When Alice speaks 18% of the members use their phones for more than 15 minutes, but when Bob speaks the rate is 27%." could be a proxy to understand how important the parliament thinks the subject/speaker is.
This project doesn't seem to collect data, it posts the photo from the stream to social media and tags the politician. You might be able to derive the data you're talking about from the social media posts and timestamps, but that is obviously not the primary purpose.
Re: Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
If they're not committed and listening they should quit immediately. Their work has an extremely outsized impact on their country. If they can't do their job they should leave and let someone else who can fill that role.
Do you ever “take a quick break” at work?
I never use my phone during a meeting
Re: Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams
#80This is beyond silly. You could be using your phone to factcheck something that relates to the ongoing discussion. Or having a side-chat with another member, privately expressing/requesting an opinion to provide context. Or to take quick notes. Or, nowadays, you might even be using an AI to keep a running summary of what the speaker has been rambling about in the last 50 minutes, translated from 'buzzspeak' to 'human…
> This is beyond silly. You could be using your phone to [...]
I think you think the benefit of such a tool would be to shame politicians for something specific, whereas the real benefit of such a tool would be to make decision-makers aware that unchecked AI video scoring and facial recognition has implications far beyond the obviously controllable.
A nose picking score would be just as useful. But it would be more vulgar.