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I'd argue not, since a single photography contains much, much less information than a full DNA fingerprint.


Not for identifying or incriminating you it doesn't given the practical risk of how the information can be used.


That's a fair point. However, I'm not entirely sure I buy the premise. With the advent of deepfakes and internet scraping facial recognition, I think a public photo collection of your entire likeness could be considered least somewhat at risk for abuse, when compared to the risk that a confidential fingerprint with ~25% of your genes is leaked and then used against you.




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