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>It’s that if you’re allowed to have cameras everywhere, why would you limit useful processing of the data?

Because what matters is what the result of that processing is. This is not some abstract concept; what's actually being done with the data matters.

>How do you regulate it? If you can’t hire Amazon to do LPR or facial recognition, can you pay a guy to recognize people walking down the street and note their patterns?

That's a silly analogy and I think you know it. Again, this is not some academic debate. The difference between being able to process TB order data automatically and hiring a guy to watch a corner and take notes is the difference between the Hubble telescope and me in my backyard with a pair of binoculars.




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