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Ironic how they want your name and address and phone number for a petition to protect your privacy.
by duckqlz 7y ago
Ironic how they want your name and address and phone number for a petition to protect your privacy.
- himlion 7y agoNo need for snark, those are completely different situations.
- Nextgrid 7y agoOr not, considering you’d still be permanently recorded in their marketing/spam database, equivalent to the “matching faces to ticket purchase details” they mention on their own website. In fact, my biggest worry about facial recognition is not even government abuse but the marketing, ads & stalking industry which is way more efficient at stalking people than any government will ever be (see Facebook for an example).
- Hnrobert42 7y agoIt is to prevent claims that the petition count is fraudulent. Voluntarily providing your identity is different having it involuntarily collected.
- derangedHorse 7y agoTo be fair, going to a music festival where you know you have to give camera consent is also voluntarily. Doesn't mean you can't complain about it.
- Hnrobert42 7y agoIn a strictly legal sense, you may be right, but in a practical sense, I disagree. A form which asks you to actively supply information is different from overlooking a short passage in a very long, intentionally complicated ToS weeks before walking into a venue. Further, collecting contact info aligns with the data subject’s goal, i.e. an impactful petition. With FR used for security, the goals are also aligned, i.e. a fun event. But for immigration control or marketing, the data subject does not benefit and may even be harmed by the data collection.
- neiman 7y agoIn theory you can use cryptography to give a signature confirming you belong to a group, without saying who you are in the group (ring signature, or more specifically for our case, traceable ring signature or linkable ring signatures). But we don't have the infrastructure to do such things atm, so which other option do you have to prove the validity of a petition?