Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/04/23/japanese-taxicab-uses-face-rec.html
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Welcome to the A.I. terf-pocalypse.
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I know this seems invasive to people, but how else will they know whether to run ads for body butter or ads for chainsaws? /s (I’m so sad every time I use that tag that the sarcasm is not self-evident)
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And if a couple passengers start making out, it plays a soothing medley of porn.
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As always the Hitchhiker’s Guide put it best:
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Welcome to cyberpunk. Your rights must fit into the overhead carrion.
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Please, please don’t let that be a typo. The image of rights being dead and vultures circling is just too perfect.
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( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
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Did you choose the Rising Sun flag on purpose up there?
- Duct tape. Never leave home without it.
- So Google has “privacy engineers”. What exactly is their job, finding new and
excitingprofitable ways to invade/circumvent it?
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Looks like a great place to drape a jacket. Shame if something overheated.
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That would be to comply with the Japanese Personal Information Processing Act which is a saner version of GDPR.
On the plus side, it probably doesn’t work on gaijin faces.
“Hmm, this looks like the kind of person that would like streaming BoingBoing comments for their trip to the airport. They have just that kind of face.”
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.”
We have found 5 shoe stores in your area…
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Let me answer in jest: I am considering dressing as a woman in my next trip to Japan to see the advertising for body butter. Scantily clad body butter models seem to be more “interesting” than chainsaws. 
A device that uses gender stereotypes to perpetuate gender stereotypes in hopes of selling people things they probably don’t need. Wonderful.
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That sounds like a description of our entire culture!
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