• UniversalApproximation@lemmy.world
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    43 minutes ago

    Meanwhile their CEO loves republicans and supports fascist influencers through money and by meeting up with them for videos.

    Fuck Proton.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    I had to scan my face a hundred times already for a hundred different places…

    Hell, I live in a closed colony and the only way in is with a face scan. My biometric data is surely for sale in a hundred different places by now, so I guess I don’t really care anymore

    Its not like I have an option if I still want to get home

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    3 hours ago

    I had to scan my face to access the $20k of I-bonds I already had with the Treasury.

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    4 hours ago

    lol one of my gmail accts tried to get me to face scan yesterday. some crazy shit man, email does not need my face.

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    7 hours ago

    Deleted Reddit after I got asked to do this to Confirm my age.

    I didn’t need ro access any 18+ content on that platform but for me this was the alarm bell that made me actually delete my account.

  • manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    My face gets scanned by city run cameras everytime i go to the super market, and then the supermarket scans my face as well, not to mention smart passports with face scanning or whatever were introduced pre 2010. It’s too late

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      47 minutes ago

      Does that make the other face scanning more acceptable somehow?

      Plus, you can at least wear any kind of face and/or head covering in those situations.

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      47 minutes ago

      You’re helping the city cameras recognise your face by providing regular close-ups of how you look each day via your phone

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    6 hours ago

    Sadly if you want to travel these days face scans are unavoidable. I still avoid them for commercial services, but yeah. Fly to europe or any major US city and you are going to be made to submit to a face scan to get through security.

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      5 hours ago

      Yes, but at the very LEAST, it’s being done by a government controlled entity that’s subject to data security auditing and some sort of regulated process for handling that data.

      These social media services are going to hold on to those scans, sell them for advertising data, and store them on dubiously secured servers.

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        4 hours ago

        I would posit that the government is even worse for handling this data. See recent FBI hack and not as recent OPM hack.

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          3 hours ago

          For all its problems, a democratically elected government will always be better than some rich guy who wants to rip you off and make as much money as possible.

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        5 hours ago

        Oh for sure I just wouldn’t want anyone having my face scan personally. I’d love to have a law passed that designated biometric data as personal property requiring a warrant or explicit consent to collect.