Government-sponsored facial recognition aside, I was gonna celebrate this as a rare event of a government doing something right, but then
The measures don’t apply to researchers or to what machine translation of the rules describes as “algorithm training activities” – suggesting images of citizens’ faces are fair game when used to train AI models.
and I feel like that undermines the entire idea, since you can easily hide behind that excuse and not give a shit. And given previous circumstances, I feel like a lot of companies are gonna get away with it.
That’s a fantastic move but it also goes under “worst guy you know makes a great point”.
And that guy is likely lying about it too.
They didn’t include government surveillance in that. I don’t doubt for a second the Chinese government’s willingness to regulate hotel door locks and whatnot. Better question is how much resources go into enforcement (zero isn’t a terrible bet) and how quickly businesses respond to the new regulations (I honestly don’t know China in that respect but I could see an American hotel in the same situation waiting until somebody proverbially twisted their arm on the issue).
I’m sure that ban doesn’t apply to government operated facial recognition cameras though.
I think it’d be naive to assume your own government isn’t doing the same thing
The thumbnail art is cool af
Facial recognition is dystopian, sure. But its also a security risk against foreign adversaries. No, sir, it is not `on brand´ for China.