Banning facial recognition is missing the point
While he is right I think Bruce is also missing the point here himself:  he states that this law is the wrong way to fight surveillance – but that is not the stated goal of the law.<p>The goal of the law is to prevent the development of a technical reality in Europe, to which a Jurisdiction can only passively react. The technical space moves so fast at times, that reality has been made before the law can even start to think about what is okay and what isn&#x27;t.<p>This time they wanted to say: &quot;Yeah it is a shiny new thing, that would definitly come if the law stayed as it was, but it is such a hairy ball of mud that we ban it till we figured out what is allowed.&quot; Or phrased differently: it is so obvious for them that this is prone to abuse, they ban it first and then figure out how to deal with it in an adequate fashion.<p>So Bruce&#x27; idea that the goal was to fight surveillance is a tad bit to optimistic in my eyes..