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New conspiracy theory: Do all authentication through a private, 3rd party company that isn't beholden to the same restrictions of a government agency. Things
by thrwawy283 5y ago
New conspiracy theory: Do all authentication through a private, 3rd party company that isn't beholden to the same restrictions of a government agency. Things like creating a video for facial recognition. Create databases that shouldn't exist for government entity, that the government can then freely tap into with things like the Patriot Act. There would be less restrictions and oversight on who this company can share data with, compared to an agency.
- woodruffw 5y agoThis conspiracy theory doesn't have great explanatory power: the USG has ample legitimate sources of photographs for individual citizens, via licenses, passports, and records collected in the courts. There are no meaningful restrictions on what the USG can do with those photos, because they're not private information. The USG has also openly applied facial recognition already, for things like border control. They're not really hurting for data sources.
- thrwawy283 5y agoNavigate to id.me's homepage, scroll all the way down, click on: "Do Not Sell My Personal Information (CA Residents Only)" Here's the link target: https://account.id.me/ccpa https://account.id.me/ccpa ID.me doesn't even have to be loyal to our government. There's no requirement for that.
- woodruffw 5y agoI don't live in CA, so this doesn't apply to me. I'm also not defending the government's decision to use ID.me; I'm not happy about it. But I think the reason behind it isn't some shadowy data harvesting plan by the USG; it's probably something between "we didn't want to do the paperwork to authorize, fund, and build this internally" and "someone's nephew works at ID.me."
- landemva 5y agoI can see Palantir buying id.me for the giant confirmed datastore.
- hansvm 5y agoInteresting that link exists since their privacy policy says they don't sell information.