>>How does a private company get access to facial recognition data?
Not that hard - most lawyer’s websites have pictures of their attorneys right on the website.
...and MSG previously warned the legal firm - in writing - that non of their lawyers were allowed in the building at least until the legal action they were taking against them were resolved. I don’t have a problem with that; why would you want to have people that are currently suing you come into your business?
I work with a lot of doctors, many refuse to see lawyers as patients - I also don’t have a problem with that.
“websites have pictures”
I don’t think that’s good enough for facial rec. I thought facial recognition data uses the “dead on” image, like you’d get in a passport photo.
I’m thinking that the government gave this company the data from it’s driver’s license photos.
In addition, the ability to exclude litigants would be a “plus”. The primary use of the system is security against known threats.
So unless the company is running around collecting images from terrorist websites, they are getting it from the government.
In this case, it’s just bad PR. It wasn’t like that lawyer was going to gain a tactical advantage in the case by taking her daughter to a Christmas show.
Very smart policy, prevents future problems. They should add Health Insurance executives......