<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">“But it makes our lives so much more convenient”. Yup. So does clear-cutting for cattle grazing so that we can eat more burgers. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">digiKam is a fantastic software package for which I am thankful and use extensively. I truly appreciate all of the hard work and dedication of Gilles and his team. Yet this “focus” on Facial Recognition is short-sighted and will undoubtably be proven in the future to have been misguided. The backlash to Facebook’s blatant attacks on personal privacy is a prime example of the public’s growing outrage as the incipient erosion to liberty continues to become more clear.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"Technology or the ability to do something isn't evil. Using that technology in a evil way is.” Sure, just like they always say in the mad US: “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people”…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A comment was made in reference to the OpenSource community. Perhaps this community should take a look at the commercial side and see how some of those members actually take a moral stand: <a href="https://hypebeast.com/2018/12/google-employees-protest-china-search-engine" class="">https://hypebeast.com/2018/12/google-employees-protest-china-search-engine</a> Or, is this silly because these people are merely “paranoid”?</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 2 Feb 2019, at 15:20, Rob Dueckman <<a href="mailto:duke@dukey.org" class="">duke@dukey.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div class="" style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#2e3436" link="#2a76c6" vlink="#2e3436"><div class="">J Albrecht:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I use Digikam for personal use. I have a bad memory so having facial recognition is an asset for me when I'm looking for that photo from years ago that contains my long lost Aunt Milly. If it weren't for face recognition, it would take many hours of searching, or would just give up.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Having said that, our own eyes use face recognition. Are you suggesting we gouge our eyes out so we can't do our own facial recognition? But wait. we might recognise what they sound like, so we might as well cut off our ears. But we also might know what they smell like, so maybe cut off our noses too. I understand that blind people can recognise a person by touch, so we should probably cut off their hands.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Technology or the ability to do something isn't evil. Using that technology in a evil way is.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please keep your paranoia out of this public forum. The developers work long and hard hours building something they love. If you can't be constructive, then please keep quiet.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On Sat, 2019-02-02 at 12:46 -0500, J Albrecht wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex" class="">So said the guy upon taking a break from his task of designing a “New and Improved” whale harpoon.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Gilles, it seems that your technical abilities and enthusiasm for a great software product (which I absolutely appreciate!) blind you to the perils of Facial Recognition. Surely you’re not okay with rampant and pervasive surveillance, are you? Obviously (or so I assume), digiKam isn’t being designed for this purpose. However, by continuing to develop and advocate Facial Recognition, you are contributing to the “normalisation” of something which only a few years ago was justifiably considered to be vile and evil.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex" class=""><div class="">On 2 Feb 2019, at 11:48, Gilles Caulier <<a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com" class="">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le sam. 2 févr. 2019 à 15:52, J Albrecht <<a href="mailto:heviiguy@gmail.com" class="">heviiguy@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex" class=""><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Have you no shame? <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I cringe every time that I read about Facial Recognition software. You developers are like a bunch of giddy Manhattan Project nerds, gleefully and obliviously participating in the acceleration of our collective doom. You people are contributing to the development of scary, scary stuff. You’re not alone; Consider yourself members of a club which includes Custer Bomb Designers and Genome Modifiers. Like you, they see absolutely nothing wrong with what they’re doing because after all, they’re only building and promoting innocuous technology which will benefit “us”. Yeah, right. Tell that to the Uyghers… …and to your children.</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You talking to me ???</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If yes, thanks for the noise and to help the project in a constructive way... It's always a pleasure to read this kind of words in an open source community.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Gilles Caulier</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> </div></div></div>
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