The problem is not with the facial recognition itself, but the data that is stored in the background to allow the system to recognise a face… Facebook needs to design a new kind of system to get consent from people before their data is stored.
Johannes Caspar, the head of Hamburg’s data protection authority in an interview with the FT about why the city state is taking Facebook to task for its most recent privacy landgrab: facial recognition as a default privacy invasion.
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