Mastodawn

My camera shoots fascists Apr 28, 2023

You're on a very promising first date and find out that your chosen restaurant only provides menus, ordering, and payment via scanning a QR code with your phone. No cash accepted.

Your date politely says this is a discriminatory practice and a bad #privacy and #DataSecurity situation. You:

(Hey, not to grovel for boosts, but I'd love it if this got wide exposure.)

Wholeheartedly agree because fuck surveillance

68.9%

Didn't know it was a problem, but open to learn.

21.2%

Grudgingly go along, but no second date, dweeb.

Think your date is a weirdo and leave.

2.8%

Poll ended at Apr 30, 2023 at 2:23am.

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My camera shoots fascists Apr 28, 2023

This has actually happened twice now. Both times my dates were polite about it, but I think there was a pretty hard silent eye roll and a sense that "this isn't going to work."

The Bay Area is really bad for this. A number of my favorite places are now closed off to me because I won't scan their fucking QR code.

If you're unsure why requiring a smart phone linked to a credit card is discriminatory and bad privacy practice, just do a little Internet searching.

Also, next time you're asked, tell them you only have cash and walk out.

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My camera shoots fascists Apr 28, 2023

I'm glad the last two options are getting a little bit of response, or I wouldn't really believe the results. I also know that on mastodon the first and second options are going to go pretty hard. Which is also why I like it here 😆

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My camera shoots fascists Apr 28, 2023

Let's take this scenario one wee step further:

You go into the restaurant, scan the QR code (which sucks up a bunch of data about you right then), scan the menu (more data "sluuurrrrp"), order (ditto) and pay (sluurrrrp).

If you're cool with all that, then maybe your are also cool with the security cameras connecting your QR code (with your name and a ton of other data about you) with your face, your gait, your behavior and your date's facial scan and their behavior during the date and sending all of this to some anonymous data broker(s) to do with as they please?

Or would that be going too far? How do you know they're not doing this already? (I mean, they probably aren't...yet...in most places...yet.)

So, how far is too far for you? Maybe we should just stop this shit in its tracks and roll it the fuck back? Or nah?

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Tom Ritchford

@Mikal Dating tip: things will go badly if your "Them" and their "Them" don't overlap almost completely. (Your Them in this case includes "the predatory surveillance state", which the date trusts...)

Sadly, we all have a Them these days. Objectively, some of these Thems should be on everyone's Them list, because They are destroying everyone's future for everyone, but objectivity does not rule in a post-truth world.