Oh. my. god.

Madison Square Garden used facial recognition to identify and stop a mom from attending a Christmas show with her kid because she's an attorney at a firm who is engaged in litigation with them.

This is why it's not enough to just ban government and law enforcement use of #facialrecognition. There are so many ways private companies and even individuals can abuse #biometric #surveillance tech.

#BanFacialRecognition entirely. Yesterday.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/msgs-facial-recognition-stops-mom-from-attending-christmas-show-with-child/4004471/

Musk now claiming his OWN POLL, run on a platform that HE OWNS, was rigged against him.

Beyond parody.

I went into the wilderness in search of #johnmastodon

The jackrabbits said he’d moved on. “Look in the cities and the places where the many-colored-wingless have begun to gather, where they grow tusks and grow strong, tooting one to the next the word: ‘justice.’”

“Although the Committee’s hearings were viewed live by tens of millions of Americans and widely publicized in nearly every major news source,22 the Committee also recognizes that other news outlets and commentators have actively discouraged viewers from watching, and that millions of other Americans have not yet seen the actual evidence addressed by this Report.”

#january6threport #Jan6Report #jan6 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/19/us/politics/jan-6-committee-report-executive-summary.html?smid=url-share

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