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raframtoday at 4:17 PM3 repliesview on HN

Pretty sure that does not cover a face database indexing your own photos/videos, running locally on your own computer. If it did, that would be extremely silly.


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anon7000today at 4:26 PM

Yeah, that’s been a thing in photo software for at least like 20 years. I remember using it as a teenager for my parents

throwaway240403today at 4:27 PM

I think you're right in this case, but Illinois lawmakers are generally extremely silly, so I wouldn't put it past them.

rightbytetoday at 4:42 PM

Why would the law make exemptions for running the search on on a computer that has the database.

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