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I don’t disagree with you, but it’s irrelevant to the topic of electronic passport credentials. Flock doesn’t need ID, and the pervasive surveillance is being

I don’t disagree with you, but it’s irrelevant to the topic of electronic passport credentials. Flock doesn’t need ID, and the pervasive surveillance is being done at the backend. The federal regime is linking everything together with Palantir to build the “Total Information Awareness” capability that the Bush administration wanted 20 years ago. You now need to validate your identity via mobile or present a RealID to forward mail. By linking these high trust events to your metadata, all sorts of nasty stuff will emerge.

throwaway290 1y ago
> it’s irrelevant to the topic of electronic passport credentials Maybe for some people when they say passport they mean ID. > the pervasive surveillance is being done at the backend You need to get data for it to work. Like with LLMs no data = it doesn't work. OCR on numberplate is getting data. If it was a human identifying these plates there would not be any controversy because it would not scale for total surveillance. But flock means it's done constantly and without most people even knowing and if they knew they would protest. Checking ID is also getting data. Ability to check ID quickly and automatically means checking ID can be done more and in ways people don't even notice.