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I was not familiar with those, perhaps they will. Very fascinated reading about them now. I guess I don't follow the specifics, ... to give an example of my confusion, a journalist can't livestream a protest without blurring out the faces of the protestors?


That's fine, because simply a face is not at the moment considered to be personal data and there's a general exemption for news reporting and livestreaming is not 'data retention' (and I think not 'data processing' either, for the purposes of the directive.

Maintaining a facial recognition database however is definitely not allowed without appropriate consent: http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/7/3964550/facebook-deletes-eu...




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