David Honig wrote:
> >there's a difference between this and a database system. almost all laws
> >on privacy (where such exist) realize that.
>
> Really? What's to stop me from 'gargoyling' (to use a _snow crash_ term):
> running a few VCRs on my surroundings as I wander in public, later indexing
> the faces and conversations I picked up? And then offering a service in
> which you submit a face, I'll tell you where I've seen it.
said difference? namely the one between manual and automatic data
processing. that said, I think your example is a good one on the
borderline between personal data (which is protected, at least in the
civilized world) and unpersonal data (which is public domain). a face
alone is not, as I read the law, a piece of personal data.
