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Tennessee grandmother spent six months in jail after AI facial recognition error

In July, US marshals arrested Angela Lipps at her Tennessee home while she was babysitting four children. Solely based on the AI "evidence" she was taken away at gunpoint and booked into a county jail as a fugitive from justice from North Dakota. She's never even been there.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud

#AI #dystopia #technology #IDVerification #AgeVerification #US

Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud

Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after AI software linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case

The Guardian

Exit Code 1 1d ago

RE: https://mamot.fr/@benzogaga33/116188997509491160

This made me chuckle, and is well worth a read. TL;DR: The Californian age verification law is so poorly drafted that a bash script can be your OS. And unless you're a child, you cannot be a "user" of an OS in the legal sense.

I'm not suggesting anyone breaking the law. I'm sharing this because it's a hilarious takedown of a badly written law.

#ageverification #california #idverification #privacy

Exit Code 1 4d ago

I'm so grateful and proud that the EU MEPs voted yes to amendment 5 and thereby narrowed the #chatcontrol extension down to something surprisingly reasonable.
Now, we just need to ensure that the scope for the permanent law is similar, and doesn't include #privacy invasive #ageverification or #idverification mandates.

Jon Snow 4d ago

MPs give ministers powers to restrict entire Internet

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/mps-give-ministers-powers-to-restrict-entire-internet/

#AgeVerification #IDVerification #privacy #surveillance #dystopia #technology #censorship #UK

MPs give ministers powers to restrict entire Internet

MPs have rejected a Lords amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would allow a social media ban for under 16s.

Open Rights Group

ジェネソルチ 5d ago

https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

- Phone (House switchboard): 202-225-3121
- Phone (Senate switchboard): 202-224-3121
- https://www.badinternetbills.com/
- https://5calls.org/
- https://faxzero.com/

Tell your reps/senators to vote against all online “safety” bills.
#Section230 #IDVerification #KOSA #ScreenAct #EarnItAct #CooperDavisAct #StopCSAMAct

Find Your Members in the U.S. Congress

Find your members of Congress by typing in your address on Congress.gov.

Eve Ventually 5d ago

This morning, I received a response to a post I made about Discord’s ID verification process. The post blamed governments for Discord’s actions. This is a pattern I see often. I replied to the reply. With #Flatpak and #XDG ‘s recent actions, I feel it’s worthwhile to post this separately and modified slightly.

I advocate fighting our governments but that’s not what’s happening here. So far, there is no national law with a requirement that this type of invasive user IDing be done. Even if there were, Discord could sue the government. That’s one of the main ways these things get overturned since the very legislatures that implement these laws are unlikely to overturn them in a timely fashion without mass, nation disrupting action.

So far, these actions have happened at the state level. Bluesky’s reaction to Mississippi’s law was to block visitors from the state of Mississippi. That was the right call. Discord should have done the same and sued the states implementing these laws.

The fact that Discord chose to go out of their way to do something so bespoke, custom, and egregious hints that they were already working on it for other reasons entirely. Their whole modus operandi seems to be to gather as much user data as possible including for the purposes of develop AI models. I think it’s likely they built the systems they have specifically so they can market their solutions for identifying “underage” users. They want to be the ones selling this invasive tech to other companies. That’s way worse than merely proactively complying when they had so many other options to fight.

We have to stop making excuses for the companies that are not merely complying in advance but positioning themselves to profit from future tyranny.

In the case of Flatpak and XDG, they may not be preparing to profit from these laws but they certainly have more options than compliance with them.

#Discord #IDVerification