The biometric ID project has been halted and investigated in multiple countries, but it recently partnered with Tinder, Zoom, and Docusign to verify users.

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      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.

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    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.

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    Oh god… They really want to track every humans on this planet. And we all know for what purposes

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      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.

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    US: Are we the bad guys?

    Morgan Freeman: It was at that moment that the people realized they were.

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    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.

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      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.

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        That’s true, the fuckery is strong here too and it requires a lot of pressure to hold it back.

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    From the country so adament against a nationwide ID, this is rich

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      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.

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    Uhm, no.

    This is one of those technologies that CEOs hear about and think would be great for their business. But, they don’t consider that nobody wants to fucking do this.

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    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.