Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel
— by @openrightsgroup
#peterthiel #roblox #reddit #discord #spyware #privacy #biometrics #uk #ukpol #BiometricID #childs #kids #users #palantir
@indyradio The further this goes, the more I wonder if it's not a special ability set instead of a #disability set that I physically can't use #smartphones most of any & every given year & that the 2 main forms of #BiometricID don't work for me either.
Don't get me wrong, the smartphone thing does affect other abilities too, but not much.. (I just can't use the very lightweight eating utensils, nor water glasses that are popular, but I've many other options.)
Expect Lines from HELL as European EES Border System Comes into Effect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZYhetzKSaE #Travel #BiometricID #Surveillance
"Worldcoin's proposition: Your iris for crypto."
#Worldcoin #BiometricID #CryptoDiscussion #TheInternetIsCrack #TechDebate
"Real ID" which is a combination of biometric ID & either a physical card with a microchip that to my understanding has tracking capacity, or a set of files in a smartphone app (which includes #BiometricID & standard card elements with the #tracking capacity done by the phone) is a creeping mess.
To be very clear - I've no problems being asked for my regular card of a driver's license when I'm buying alcohol at an automated checkout stand, to prove my age & similar situations but biometric ID is very different, as is the tracking element.
One of the 2 basic problems I have on this is biometric ID, as with my hEDS - fingerprint scans aren't reliable, as was shown when I had my household's SNAP application delayed for over a month, because the first time it didn't match and because of my hands free ear moving/wiggling ability - the measurement sets that are most standard in the facial recognition form of biometric ID also won't work.
The other basic problem I have is tracking, beyond my being a prison abolitionist overall, the only 2 setups where tracking people on a continual basis holds any real sense is 1. Convicted violent criminals- in a prison/jail & if they're prone to repetition once released
2. Mentally incapacitated people
But these IDs
@paulknightly The general "choice" is to either cede to facial recognition attempts or other biometric ID, like fingerprints, or to get a far more thorough bag check & full body "pat down", with even the later "option" getting all the ID points taken anyways. This includes TSA, large concert security most commonly but also the department of social services & a growing # of medical clinic offices, among other entities.
My ears moving in response to my mood making facial recognition fail, because that movement changes a key measurement set it takes & uses. My extra elastic skin, from ehlers danlos syndrome hypermobility type, making finger prints/scanning fail & also making "pat downs" a painful ordeal, even when it's done gently.
Likely my being autistic, has me getting either harshly questioned whenever I question biometric ID in it working to people using scanners & their bosses, or any & all of my objections completely ignored - to the point where whenever I see a place has it that I'm considering going, I include with a plan to attend, a plan to leave before full entry, if my refusal attempts are ignored.
More than anything else though & as an overarching philosophical principle set of why I object to this set of technologies is my belief that for a new technology set to be worth adoption & expansion beyond small experiments, it must be to solve an existing problem for the majority of people using it, it must indeed solve said problem & that fix can't produce more &/or worse problems than the original problem.
AI& biometrics don't really solve any sizable problem for the masses, but they definitely cause more problems & thusly shouldn't be used on that basis alone.
#Ableism #DisabilityInaccessibility #AI #BiometricID
Nueva tecnología de verificación de identidad llega a Costa Rica
San José, 30 may (elmundo.cr) – El Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones (TSE), junto con RACSA, inauguran una era de innovación tecnológica en Costa Rica con la puesta en marcha del sistema de Verificación de Identidad (VID). Esta herramienta no solo optimizará el servicio existente sino que t [...]
#BIOmetricID #CienciaYTecnología #CostaRica #RACSA #TSE #TecnologíaBiométricaContactless #VerificaciónDeIdentidad
https://elmundo.cr/costa-rica/nueva-tecnologia-de-verificacion-de-identidad-llega-a-costa-rica/
@aral I just hate all of it, the entire radioactive manure pile that biometric identity forms are, as it's already been proven that none of them are even truly reliable & all forms hurt at least one subset of disabled people.
One of the absolutely wonderous things about computers & higher tech things overall is their capacity to make this world more accessible for disabled people & thusly to reduce that element of structural societal inequality, but biometric ID does the exact opposite, as it, especially with the mandates it often comes with, adds an accessibility barrier set.
#DisabilityAccessibility
#BigTech #BigGovernment #BiometricID
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