Yeah, I'm not doing that. Go fuck yourselves.
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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.
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??
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
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.
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.
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.
From the country so adament against a nationwide ID, this is rich
Fuck all the way off with that shit
I'm surprised he didn't name it Mark of the Beast instead, while claiming the pope is the real antichrist.
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
US: Are we the bad guys?
Morgan Freeman: It was at that moment that the people realized they were.
No, they didn't answer the question; they only asked it. Gotta see the follow-through. This makes me think of the Palantir articles about how in reality their employees have been annoyed about being painted as bad guys, instead of genuinely questioning themselves.
Hold up? I'm going to need to verify to use zoom, now? Wtf for?
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,.
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.
Again, we don’t have to use any of this. There are alternatives to all of those products.
Wake up and smell the dystopia. It's cooking, and if you don't like how it smells, just wait until you have to eat it.
this is fitting

remember all the times I said "AI is fascism"?
is it getting clearer now?
Holy shit, I was recently in Porto Portugal and saw a plain storefront with these balls with a glowing reticle up on pedestals. It was these! I passed by the place a bunch of times, no signage and just a guy standing in there playing on his phone. There was never anyone else in there and I could not tell what they wanted. I cannot imagine this going over well in Europe.
They can fuck off right off. Slavers with a different mask using different means for the same results, Auld John Brown taught damned well what to do with the slavers of his time. Damned be civility blessed be savagery if this be the fruits of civilization.
World
Why do people name companies like this? Yet another stupid name that is going to make internet searches and conversations more frustrating.
You know the guy who's favorite movie is Starship Troopers but isn't able to grasp anything beyond a surface level and so they see the troopers as "cool" and just like it as an action movie.
Well, that guy is every tech CEO we have today. Feels like they are trying to just create all of the aspects of their fantasy of a tech dystopian future.
Why does the article read like the plot from Minority Report? And Sam Altman, Peter Thiel and all those assholes supporting a technological dystopia need to fuck off already, mass surveillance in the name of safety is a good idea, mass surveillance in the name of the rich to be able to stomp out any unrest and dissatisfaction with their rule and grip on our lives isn't something i would ever support.
mass surveillance in the name of safety is a good idea,
The fuck it is. That's always the excuse, and it never fixes shit
Orion explains what they're splattering garbage. So that your development avoids what Ben Bova spells out to proper cognitive reorientation. Even past the Riddickulous Devine binary vomit.
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