EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in public spaces
I sincerely hope it happens. I'm tired of seeing privacy eroded in the name of safety and I hope nobody falls for the "we need to keep up with the US and China" argument that is inevitably going to be brought forward.<p>We don't need to compete with others on technologies whose primary purpose is diminishing the rights of our own citizens, that's not an arms race we need to be part of and it seems to be increasingly the rhetoric tech companies adopt as well.<p>One piece that I read recently that I found particularly disturbing talked about aerial surveillance of US cities.<p><a href="https://longreads.com/2019/06/21/nothing-kept-me-up-at-night-the-way-the-gorgon-stare-did/" rel="nofollow">https://longreads.com/2019/06/21/nothing-kept-me-up-at-night...</a>