European Union Calls for Five Year Strict Ban on Facial Recognition Technology
I don't understand how you can ban a machine from doing something that a human can do.<p>Consider the following scenarios:<p>- I can pay for a person to watch archival video and take notes on paper as to who comes in and out of frame.<p>- I can have software that helps a person crop faces of people coming in and the person can tag and catalog the people coming in and out of frame.<p>- I can have software that identifies human looking things and things that look like faces and a person can tag those<p>- I can have software that identifies human looking things and things and recommends a similar face. A human confirms.<p>- I can have software do everything.<p>At which point does it become facial recognition? The end results are the same regardless of which step you ban. So is any ban just meant to make the cost artificially high? I think you could outsource it anyway via Mechanical Turk or something similar if there is a real value to facial recognition.<p>I don't think banning technology is the answer.