Amazon defeated Rekognition shareholder revolt by a large margin
I’m not sure how I feel about facial recognition. On one hand, I think code is just information and no piece of information should be illegal to possess. I also think we need to protect our rights with math and code not laws.<p>But I’m not sure that would help against the very real and dystopian future that seems just around the corner. Facial recognition is probably the key cornerstone of said future and I’m not sure what we should do.<p>Banning facial recognition also feels wrong to me, and violates the aforementioned axiom about information.<p>Moreover, many cities are already blanketed in thousands of government cameras and facial recognition doesn’t seem like anymore an abridgement of our privacy than the cameras alone.<p>Maybe we should just ban police cameras on streets? But the ship has probably already sailed on that one.