The biometric ID project has been halted and investigated in multiple countries, but it recently partnered with Tinder, Zoom, and Docusign to verify users.
Yeah, I’m not doing that. Go fuck yourselves.
The problem is companies like docusign you might not have a choice not to use it, for a job for instance. This is pernicious, and will force us to hand over even more of our information, accepting a thousand page terms of service to do necessary tasks, with no government protection (none enforced even when there,) to any significant degree.
An MIT Technology Review investigation reveals World’s unethical practices when onboarding test users across Africa and Asia, including deceptive marketing practices. The investigation also says that World was gathering personal data beyond iris scans, including heartbeat, breathing, and other vital signs, and doing so without obtaining meaningful informed consent.
Insane. When businesses are building massive systems to identify and track the citizenry, the government should step in and stomp it out. Instead, the government is mandating that it proceeds.
The system is functioning as expected. The system must be destroyed.
That’s the neat part when you blur the lines between the government and the private sector. So-called leaders who are interested in power, control, and “winning” more than upholding their oaths of office can just use the private sector to do the things the government is restricted from doing. Then when their businesses can’t compete on their own, they can lean on the legal + force options the government has.
I’m starting to think this habit we have of electing selfish sociopathic bad-faith actors to powerful positions of service is less than optimal.
Someday soon, and it isn’t as far off as some people think: the government will know who we are.
We can use their weapons against them by using leaked biometric data to destroy the lives of politicians.
What are they gonna do, change their face??
Fuck all the way off with that shit
I could not have said it better 👏💯
Fuck off, Sam
So a Sam Altman company is coming to solve the problem of too much unidentifiable AI slop on the internet. A problem that has in no small part, been created by OpenAI, another Sam Altman company.
Hard pass.
The US can do whatever they want in their country but leave the rest of us alone. We’re actually doing much better without you. It would be even better if you stopped interfering ie start an illegal war, in the name of Israel. Than we can all move on without the US.
Canada and Mexico should combine forces and take over the US.
Give Hawaii back to the native Hawaiians.
Canada takes Alaska.
Mexico takes Texas and New Mexico and detain all the pro ICE fascists.
Canada and Mexico should combine forces and take over the US.
Why the fuck would we do that. We have enough dumb fat violent racists.
Canada world police > United States world police
No no no that’s not how it works
UN world police based on a wide mandate. Yes not as effective but the only way to real peace.
Looks at what happened in Somalia
The Canadians may actually be worse than the US for that.
I would be so happy to be living in a part of Canada.
You’re officially invited.
And let Cuba be a normal state again that can trade freely with the world.
the problem is, a lot of shitty laws are passing in europe (looking at you france) but havent made it through our system yet. time will tell.
That’s true, the fuckery is strong here too and it requires a lot of pressure to hold it back.
Oh god… They really want to track every humans on this planet. And we all know for what purposes
They already do. They just want to make it easier
And also have the ability to turn off people’s legal existence when they get up to too much anti-corporate shenanigans.
“Unperson”
Anti-citizen one, you are accused of multiple anti-civil violations. Wait for civil protection teams in the submission position.
As someone in a sanctioned country, I actually approve of yet another “official” identifier since it will be used by someone making me less dependent upon my local ID, and since technically everyone not in an Indian or sub-Saharan African village is already being tracked. There too probably.
I can avoid pretty much any tech company by simply not using the product. Docusign, however, is fucking everwhere in modern US life. I’ve had local government agencies advertise a certain wait period etc. which is dependent on using Docusign on their website, otherwise there is a weeks (or months) long delay on them mailing things you have to sign because why would they ever print them in the office? Based on the nature of the company, I am not surprised, but them being onboard will make bureaucracy that everyone has to deal with immensely more annoying if you opt out of using their products.
FWIW I had to use an equivalent which didn’t work on my setup. I emailed the company, they said try this, try that, which I did, still no dice. They emailed me a form to print, sign, take a photo of, and email them back. I did and the 3rd party that relied on their service was notified.
So… it’s OK to be “annoying” with this kind of services if it doesn’t work respective of your setup itself respective of your concerns.
I’m not saying it will also work, or that it’s efficient, just that it’s a possibility.
Yeah, that’s true. It does however even pop up in doctors offices, or anything legally binding. Things where the your appointment will be ruined if you don’t sign digitally.
To be honest I don’t know what the solution is. What I’m convinced of though is that if we don’t push back, at the very least signify that it is actually a problem, then it silently becomes the new norm.
Edit : related in school context https://lemmy.ml/post/46392253/25351905
My employer uses them too for certain documents, and I gotta say, I’m not a fan of their tech side either. The contact I’m working with is a dear, always on top of getting my questions to the relevant engineers and getting a timely response back, but he can’t make gold from straw either.
I’m surprised he didn’t name it Mark of the Beast instead, while claiming the pope is the real antichrist.
Peter thiel marks the puppets he controls: Altman, Jd vance, Karp.
LOL. nope.
From the country so adament against a nationwide ID, this is rich
Oh you misunderstood, nationwide IDs are the mark of the beast.
Being forced to give your biometric data to a company trying to create artificial consciousness? That’s just capitalism baby.
All these AI companies are into deep and they cant get out of thier AI debt hole which will soon come down. Cant afford all those AI DATACENTERS nor they can generate any profit from it, what better way to convince many counties in the west to adopt AI verfication, so they can get a revenue stream from the governments.
reddit also uses OPEN AI in one form or another, they likely will be the most compliant to require it,.
Sam Altman can go fuck himself
Hold up? I’m going to need to verify to use zoom, now? Wtf for?
So they can have more valuable , more personal data.
Oligarch control and profiteering. Tax the billionaires out of existence.
Again, we don’t have to use any of this. There are alternatives to all of those products.
