First, they'll ask for your official IDs to confirm your age and identity.

This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.

Then, they'll claim your official ID is
unreliable, because it was stolen so many times, and demand you share your biometric data.

They will collect your face scan,
your palm scan, and even your iris scan (no exaggeration, these are all already being collected by some companies for identification). They will claim it's super safe.

This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive biometric data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.

Then what? Rinse and escalate.

You will have lost control of not just your corporate social media accounts by participating to this, but to any data capable of validating your identity, to your privacy rights, to the protections you could use online to stay safe.

We don't have to wait that it escalates.

We can, and must, push back and say No now. Start to say No now.

#Privacy #Biometrics #DataMinimization #AgeVerification

@Em0nM4stodon they were collecting iris scans at a walk-in off the street in SF when we visited the other week.
@abetterjulie Indeed. And that is horrifying. And I wrote about it here: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/114484154495209772
Em :official_verified: (@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange)

Attached: 1 image New Privacy Guides article 👁️⛔️ by me: Last week, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman announced his ambitious plan for the World project, formerly known as Worldcoin. The company opened 6 stores where people can go to get their biometric data collected from a creepy iris scanner called The Orb. But this isn't just a cryptocurrency grift anymore, this is much more dystopian. In this article, I describe the risk of using such service, the unethical practices the World project has been employing to gather numbers, and how this is a slippery slope towards the normalization of mass surveillance we should all worry about. Say NO to the Orb! Don't scan your eyeballs! 👁️🙅‍♀️ https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/10/sam-altman-wants-your-eyeball/ #PrivacyGuides #Privacy #NoAI #AI #Worldcoin #BiometricData #GDPR

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@abetterjulie @Em0nM4stodon fascist invites you to give up yourself for his enrichment

@abetterjulie @Em0nM4stodon they will bifurcate the internet and require this level of verification to participate in the next one..

It’s no coincidence the generative AI purveyors are allowing the abject destruction of the current web, they want it to be wrecked to force us all into the next one where real identity is required to participate.

We have to refuse, now, strongly and in great numbers. It goes beyond politics in one country and will impact the entire world from banking to health

@dotsie @abetterjulie @Em0nM4stodon there is no "current web" and "the next one", there is only " the internet" and services running on it.

If new services become malicious, just boycott them.

Oh wait, it has already happened. I no longer use the malicious services 99 % of the internet uses because I refuse to be data cattle.

I guess you're late?

@dormouse759 I used the term web for a reason, the viability of it is being diminished every day with media becoming increasingly unreliable due to GenAI, and it will drive people away.

They will offer an alternative, and society will sleepwalk into something that goes far beyond the simple surveillance capitalism you’re referring to.

I’m not talking about transport layers, I’m talking about a seismic shift in how we use all services, both in the real world and online. What’s coming is dark.

@dotsie and I responded exactly to your point as meant.

This wall of text proved ineffective, human.