Em May 25

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

Show threadJulieRMay 25
@Em0nM4stodon they were collecting iris scans at a walk-in off the street in SF when we visited the other week.
Show threaddotsie

@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

May 25 at 5:18amWeb
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Show threadDormouseMay 25

@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?

Show threaddotsieMay 25

@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.

Show threadDormouseMay 25

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

This wall of text proved ineffective, human.