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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • Lol so you did no research. Do I need to spoon feed you everything? Read the law, you need to understand the difference between recording and owning the rights to something or using it in certain ways. You seem stuck on “STORES HAVE CAMERAS!!1” Ya, I know. Maybe take the time and read the laws instead of just ranting about what you think is legal. Weird that those laws I mentioned even exist of it’s not illegal. Weird that even more laws exist about it. Almost like it’s more complicated than security cameras = everyone owns your image.





  • Your face is not public data, you are just wrong. Stop.

    Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)

    Citation: 740 ILCS 14

    Key Points:

    Prohibits private entities from collecting, storing, or using biometric identifiers (including face scans) without informed written consent.

    Includes the right to sue for violations (statutory damages of $1,000–$5,000 per incident).

    Relevant Cases:

    Facebook settled a $650 million class-action lawsuit in 2020 for violating BIPA via its facial recognition feature.

    Your face is not public data, there are literal court cases showing this. A simple Google search would show you this. Sit down and stop spreading misinformation.
















  • IP only protects those who have the means to defend their IP in court, which is rich people and companies.

    False. This shows a lack of knowledge around the topic. Off the top of my head I know a specific case where a small grocery store defended it’s IP from Apple. In your world that wouldn’t work. I mean how did JK Rowling go from a poor person with a story to a rich author. She had no money to defend her IP.

    This take is just wrong. Factually.

    As a consumer, you can download the book, listen to a free audiobook, or print it yourself if you want to. The company only gets money if they somehow make better physical version than what others have access to. To me this is not at all akin to ownership or theft.

    So if you create a book or song or art piece, you shouldn’t be entitled to the money that those make? They should just all be free? I mean sure, but then people will stop doing it, because of it doesn’t make money people need to work to pay bills, they can’t create.