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AI + Government + ID / BIOMETRICS = The road to Totalitarianism (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by madeindex@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48515135

What could go wrong with forcing a data hungry AI company like Anthropic to force it's users to do ID verification?

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/anthropic-says-claude-may-want-to-see-your-id

Meanwhile asylum-seekers are a great source for biometric data for the UK government: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/the-uk-will-scan-asylum-seekers-faces-for-age-checks-despite-knowing-the-tech-is-flawed

As the West is trying to imitate totalitarian states as of late, they might be better advised to imitate their exports instead.

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[–] bpalmerau@aussie.zone 8 points 2 months ago

Yup. Guess who's doing the ID work - Persona. Yes the Persona that has the code to route every face scan via US checks. 'Governance' via coercion and control. 'The beatings will continue until social cohesion improves.' They're all jealous of China. And we have no sovereignty. We're full of US software and doing whatever 'Five Eyes' wants.

They know how dangerous AI is for cybersecurity and they're just pushing it through anyway and expecting engineers to deal with it. https://www.itnews.com.au/news/must-act-now-to-counter-ai-borne-cyber-attacks-five-eyes-says-626815

Andy Burnham is in favour of the social media ban in the UK, and we continue to roll forward: 10 Dec 2025 No accounts for under-16s; 'reasonable steps' to detect and remove underage accounts 9 Mar 2026 'Age assurance', i.e. ID check for adult sites 27 Jun 2026 'Age assurance', i.e. ID check, for all search engines Dec 2026 Private companies can be accredited as part of the Digital ID system. Oh we're so ready. Nothing bad will happen.