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[-] scarilog@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah this article is hot garbage. What "biometric data" are they talking about??? Just images of people's faces? My understanding is that it's super commonplace in public locations, are people really that surprised?

[-] janonymous@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

That is technically biometric data

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Technically it's not until it's quantified and hashed, it's just an image. Until measured, it's not metrics.

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

An image is a quantization of reality. An image alone is biometric data if it's a picture of a face, fingerprint, or any other identifiable feature of a person.

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