• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    9 days ago

    Eh, I don’t like it, but its kinda the norm if you wanna ever leave your country. My dad who’s a PRC Citizen doesn’t even have to go to the embassy/consulate anymore for passport renewal, its now done via an app, which of course they’d have to scan your face. I expect other countries to also adopt the same practice, just as they did with mass surveillance. And then it will eventually move from the government services to the private sector.

    I mean, I hate to think about it, but we might have mandatory brain chips in the future… 👀

    • Avicenna@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      9 days ago

      fair point but given the direction US and UK are headed, something legal you do online can be illegal in a couple years with a face attached to that activity. What you mention is also bad (your face being in a face recognition database) but not as bad as that being attached to tons of behavioural data collected about you.

    • bless@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      9 days ago

      There’s a wide gap between “travelling to another country” and “listening to music.”

      I’m not trying to go on holiday to Spotify