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Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment
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That is technically biometric data
Technically it's not until it's quantified and hashed, it's just an image. Until measured, it's not metrics.
An image is a quantization of reality. An image alone is biometric data if it's a picture of a face, fingerprint, or any other identifiable feature of a person.
It's very easy for even a private citizen to get a lot of information from someone just by using a picture of their face.