On: A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system

[Grollicus]

> Any time you've been in a public place for the past few years, you've likely been watched, analysed and optimised for

I don't believe this. This kind of advertisement in public would be illegal in germany as it is mass surveillance.

[fixermark → Grollicus]

Germany is an outlier; their history with the Nazis makes the country unusually conservative about anything that could be abused for mass-surveillance purposes.

Not that this is a bad thing---being able to think differently like this is one of the positives of having countries!---but relative to the rest of the world, what Germany considers "surveillance" is unusual and sometimes surprising.

[kobeya → fixermark]

I think East Germany is probably the anti-surveillance sentiment more than 70 year old history.