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UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs

posted by martyb on Wednesday September 11 2019, @10:47AM   
from the bands-watching-out-for-the-people-who-watch-the-people-who-watch-a-concert dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Former Rage Against the Machine member Tom Morello and band Speedy Ortiz have joined a campaign by digital rights group Fight for the Future.

[...] In a tweet, Tom Morello said: "I don't want Big Brother at my shows targeting fans for harassment, deportation or arrest."

Fight for the Future added: "Music fans should feel safe and respected at festivals and shows, not subjected to invasive biometric surveillance."

[...] Ticketmaster's parent company Live Nation announced in May 2018 that to stop fans having to use tickets, it was teaming up with Blink Identity, which uses technology to scan people's faces as they enter concert venues.

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• Re:Good for them, but .... Re:Good for them, but .... (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Wednesday September 11 2019, @02:00PM (4 children)

  by c0lo (156) on Wednesday September 11 2019, @02:00PM (#892672) Journal

  Waaayyy to go, Arik and Jan!

  Are you suggesting that music concerts are a place that the law and police have no jurisdiction or role to play?

  Do you really go to music concerts to see the law and police playing a role or the band playing? (grin)

  Seriously now, do you equate Ticketmaster with "law and police" and "face recognition used as a ticket" with an indictment?
  I'm asking 'cause TFA reads in the very first two lines:

  Former Rage Against the Machine member Tom Morello and band Speedy Ortiz have joined a campaign by digital rights group Fight for the Future.

  They want Ticketmaster to roll back its plans to use facial recognition as an alternative to tickets at events.

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• Re:Good for them, but .... Re:Good for them, but .... (Score: 4, Touché) by janrinok on Wednesday September 11 2019, @05:21PM (2 children)

  by janrinok (52) on Wednesday September 11 2019, @05:21PM (#892801) Journal

  The best that they can do is stop employing companies that want to replace tickets with biometric data because, without musicians paying them, such companies will soon disappear.

  Which is why I finished by saying the above. It has nothing at all to do with Arik's claim of presumed innocence, which is an complete red herring to the topic under discussion.

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  • Re:Good for them, but .... Re:Good for them, but .... (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday September 11 2019, @05:27PM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) on Wednesday September 11 2019, @05:27PM (#892807) Journal

    You should move to Germany, I hear they tend to place the verb at the end of the sentence.
    Have you heard about executive summary?

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    • Re:Good for them, but .... (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 11 2019, @09:27PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 11 2019, @09:27PM (#892908)

      Is that related to summary execution?

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• Innocent Until Proven Guilty (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday September 11 2019, @05:40PM

  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday September 11 2019, @05:40PM (#892818) Journal

  I'm innocent! Innocent I say!!

  That was just someone who looks like me at that Nickelback concert, I SWEAR!!!

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