So yesterday we went to the nurse practitioner so that my spouse can get more refills on drugs he's been on basically for about the past 20 years, and as we checked in, when asked to confirm our information in, we asked that they delete the phone number. The clerk said it wouldn't be a problem.

Then during the visit, where everything the nurse practitioner said I needed to repeat, because his hearing problems made him unable to understand her words (and she didn't face him much when she spoke, making lip-reading not an option) , she repeatedly said we can & should "just call"for a pickup of an at home collected lab sample, which had us repeatedly that we can easily drive to the postal facility, but can't call anyone.

(Before yesterday was over we got an email from the pharmacy confirming they'd sent the refill orders.)

As we left, we told them & they agreed it would be fine for us to come back on Monday afternoon to get the results of the lab work that was drawn at the end of the visit.

Today he got at least 3 phone calls from them& an email asking he call them back.

Monday as scheduled we'll go & get those results and to ask they delete his phone number from their records or at least to firmly remove it from his "contact information"!

#DisabilityInaccessibility

@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