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‘Scan your face’ laws for the web are having unexpected consequences
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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almost as if scan your face laws only exist to obtain massive amounts of recognition data for the surveillance state.
The goal seems to be to control the internet like they've been controlling television and news.
We need to start following politicians with cameras, parabolic microphones, and what-not like gargoyles in Snow Crash. Stream video while out in public, posts of their locations when their not.
Remember when someone posted Musk's (public) flight data? When Musk said anything could be public?
And then Musk removed the flight data.
Rules for thee but not for me. They're bloody hypocrites.
He threatened to sue that guy.
Here's one of the Elon jet trackers on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ElonJetTracker/
Except they're only cataloguing dumbasses