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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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[–] Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A side note-The flashing blue light mobile surveillance security units weird me out. The ones like when you pull up in a parking lot and see that blinking light, it scared the shit out of me at first. It kind of looked like a flashing cop car.