<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ixtli</author><text>By many metrics the UK is and has been the most surveilled country in the world for decades.</text><parent_chain><item><author>no1youknowz</author><text>Here is what&amp;#x27;s happening in the UK.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=0oJqJkfTdAg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=0oJqJkfTdAg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;All I can hope for, is that some activist group takes the police to court and the legislative branch reacts to then impose rules for spying on its citizens.&lt;p&gt;Some of the things I can think off the top of my head:&lt;p&gt;1) Citizens can legally opt out by putting on face masks.  Especially when it&amp;#x27;s cold.&lt;p&gt;2) Video &amp;#x2F; Images are stored outside of government bodies and akin to a black box.  Must require warrants to review footage.&lt;p&gt;3) Video &amp;#x2F; Images &amp;#x2F; Data are deleted after 1 year.&lt;p&gt;4) No data of citizens facial features, body structure, gate are transferred into a national database.&lt;p&gt;Honestly though, where the UK is going.  I firmly believe in 20 years all citizens physical meta-data will be tracked and stored in a black box somewhere and then later leaked on-line.&lt;p&gt;1984 isn&amp;#x27;t just a book.  It&amp;#x27;s a handbook by all accounts.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>European Union Calls for Five Year Strict Ban on Facial Recognition Technology</title><url>https://techgrabyte.com/european-union-five-year-ban-facial-recognition/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wott</author><text>&amp;gt; 1) Citizens can legally opt out by putting on face masks.&lt;p&gt;You don&amp;#x27;t have (yet) some beautiful law like we have in France?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;beta.legifrance.gouv.fr&amp;#x2F;loda&amp;#x2F;texte_lc&amp;#x2F;JORFTEXT000022911670&amp;#x2F;2011-04-11&amp;#x2F;#LEGIARTI000022912213&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;beta.legifrance.gouv.fr&amp;#x2F;loda&amp;#x2F;texte_lc&amp;#x2F;JORFTEXT000022...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Nul ne peut, dans l&amp;#x27;espace public, porter une tenue destinée à dissimuler son visage.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Noboby may, in public space, wear an outfit intended to hide his face.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clear and simple, I guess. That was directed towards radical Muslims but the definition encompasses everyone. And last year we got this extra one:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.legifrance.gouv.fr&amp;#x2F;affichCodeArticle.do?idArticle=LEGIARTI000038382669&amp;amp;cidTexte=LEGITEXT000006070719&amp;amp;dateTexte=20190412&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.legifrance.gouv.fr&amp;#x2F;affichCodeArticle.do?idArticl...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is about hiding all (or part) of your face, within (or near...) a demonstration, in which troubles arose (or might have arisen...). The first law was an infraction, this one is a misdemeanour with much harder sentence.</text><parent_chain><item><author>no1youknowz</author><text>Here is what&amp;#x27;s happening in the UK.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=0oJqJkfTdAg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=0oJqJkfTdAg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;All I can hope for, is that some activist group takes the police to court and the legislative branch reacts to then impose rules for spying on its citizens.&lt;p&gt;Some of the things I can think off the top of my head:&lt;p&gt;1) Citizens can legally opt out by putting on face masks.  Especially when it&amp;#x27;s cold.&lt;p&gt;2) Video &amp;#x2F; Images are stored outside of government bodies and akin to a black box.  Must require warrants to review footage.&lt;p&gt;3) Video &amp;#x2F; Images &amp;#x2F; Data are deleted after 1 year.&lt;p&gt;4) No data of citizens facial features, body structure, gate are transferred into a national database.&lt;p&gt;Honestly though, where the UK is going.  I firmly believe in 20 years all citizens physical meta-data will be tracked and stored in a black box somewhere and then later leaked on-line.&lt;p&gt;1984 isn&amp;#x27;t just a book.  It&amp;#x27;s a handbook by all accounts.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>European Union Calls for Five Year Strict Ban on Facial Recognition Technology</title><url>https://techgrabyte.com/european-union-five-year-ban-facial-recognition/</url></story>