I am setting up this blog to address a number of technical and legal issues that, over the long run, can affect the freedom of media newbies like me to speak freely on the Internet and other low-cost media that have developed in the past ten years.
Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!
Regulation of facial regulation software: would this stop with governments?; Twitter tells a startup not to harvest images
The media has been warning the public about the dangers of
new AI and facial recognition software and its use in public places.
Buzzfeed saysit should be banned.The Washington Post points out that false
positives are a real risk especially for African Americans.This could even happen at airports even for
people carrying lawful passports, the Post warns. The New York Times wants to allow very
limited use by law enforcement.
Other observers suggest that their should be maximum retention
periods.
Many observers rightfully worry that western governments
could become as invasive in public places as China and use the data in calculating
social credit scores on persons that go beyond due process.
That might be a
particular risk for access to air travel.
It would seem logical to ask what happens if individual private
interests get ahold of the software.
For example, I have a library over maybe 20,000 personal
photos.Many of them are outdoors with
no identifiable people, but some do have people, like in discos.People have generally become more sensitive
about being photographed by people they don’t know (as in discos) than they
used to be, since about 2010.But
relatively few bars have no photography policies.I’ve discussed the issue (with a couple of
incidents) on my GLBT blog in the past.
Update: Jan. 23
The New York Times reports, in a Business sections story by Kashmir Hill, that Twitter has sent a cease-and-desist to a company called Clearview not to scrape images from Twitter for a facial recognition database. That is obviously because the company wants to deploy the images commercially for security customers. But theoretically that could mean that a social media company or newspaper would object to people keeping images on their hard-drives even for private use (never published online). It still might be picked up in the Cloud if someone developed the tools to do this to go after individual users. You could imagine combining this idea with the Case Act (not yet passed) and the Copyright Office, if you wanted to.
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