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		sp332 on Sept 28, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Carnegie Mellon face recognition study has unsettl... I don't think it well be that bad, eventually. It's already creepy to walk into someone else's home uninvited, or enter a public bathroom marked for a different gender, or even just stare at someone for a while. None of these social norms are based on limitations of technology.

philwelch on Sept 28, 2011 [–]

Which means those norms are not necessarily unsustainable according to my statement.

sp332 on Sept 28, 2011 | [–]

Right, I mean that we'll come up with new social norms to avoid these newly-possible creepy behaviors.

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