Not just Facebook using, illegally, facial recognition but, US too, by the gov and on test on a Brooklyn street.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49291661?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cpzqm38de79t/personal-data&link_location=live-reporting-story
…investigating on this to be published later, 311 did not answered a called send to them to corroborate who placed a facial recognition cam on a street polluted by Asians, mainly Chinese people.
…wait for the address and pic of the camera to be publish here after 311 is called again to see why the city of New York has not responded to the call made via 311, its public information tel. line.
...wait and see.
Facebook faces legal fight over facial recognition
Reuters
A US court has thrown out an attempt by Facebook to stop legal action over the way it collected images of people's faces.
The case centres around images people uploaded to Facebook that were later used to help identify them in other pictures.
This led Facebook users in Illinois to allege that the service had not got permission to use images in this way.
The decision means their class action lawsuit can now go ahead.
Unique harm
The social network had sought to defuse the legal claims by trying to convince the court that each user's claim was unique and required its own lawsuit.
The San Francisco court unanimously rejected this and said those suing Facebook had suffered "sufficient privacy injuries" to allow them to sue as a group.
The lawsuit alleges that Facebook did not do enough to warn people it would be collecting detailed images of their faces and that it did not get their explicit consent to do so.
"This biometric data is so sensitive that if it is compromised, there is simply no recourse," said lawyer Shawn Williams who is acting for the group. "It's not like a Social Security card or credit card number where you can change the number. You can't change your face."
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The class action has also won support from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) which has taken a strong stance against the growing use of facial recognition data.
The ACLU said such recognition systems had the potential to do "unique privacy harms".
"This decision is a strong recognition of the dangers of unfettered use of face surveillance technology," ACLU staff attorney Nathan Wessler said in a statement.
The legal action began in 2015 with a claim Facebook had broken Illinois laws limiting the collection of biometric data.
If the class action court case succeeds, Facebook could end up paying substantial damages. The Illinois law levies fees of $1,000 (£826) for each "negligent violation" of its biometrics laws and $5,000 for each "reckless" violation.
Millions of users could be included in the class action, said Reuters, potentially leading to a massive payout.
Facebook said it planned to appeal against the decision.
It added: "We have always disclosed our use of face recognition technology and that people can turn it on or off at any time."
Facial recognition technology is coming under increasing scrutiny by regulators and governments. In the UK, MPs have said it should stop being used and the Information Commissioner said it raised "significant" privacy issues.
...well, Russia, China and dictators are happy, very happy with Facebook; with it, no need to spy on any nation and find their target to kill later.
Could England, Germany and USA use it to know the whereabout of their citizens in those countries? I wish to know where is someone by the name of snowning or something like that in Russia, former NSA member. To bring him back to US and apply justice to his acts. The problem is that Russia would send their spies to kill their refugee politicians in US, China would do that too. Or secuester them back into their countries. Our defense system is going to have a burden to protect freedom on this land. Tech outspace any defense department of USA. Think that by the meanwhile, FACE RECOGNITION SHOULD BE OUTLAW, PENDING REVISING THAT THING.
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