[digiKam-users] either face recognition screen is buggy or I still don't understand it - at least I can say that more convenient bulk change of face tags (no auto refresh / set faces via context menu) is neccessary #V5.9.0 Windows Feb 27 2018

[J Albrecht]

So said the guy upon taking a break from his task of designing a “New and Improved” whale harpoon.

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.


> On 2 Feb 2019, at 11:48, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Le sam. 2 févr. 2019 à 15:52, J Albrecht <heviiguy at gmail.com <mailto:heviiguy at gmail.com>> a écrit :
> Have you no shame?
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> 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.
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> You talking to me ???
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> 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.
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> Gilles Caulier
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