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Price discrimination? Denying credit? Sure, but there are far worse things to worry about. How many people have escaped genocides with fake passports, or fake
by murbard2 11y ago
Price discrimination? Denying credit? Sure, but there are far worse things to worry about.
How many people have escaped genocides with fake passports, or fake laissez-passer?
Worry that biometric will make it harder to escape being sent to the gulag, not that Walmart will deny you store credit.
- JasonFruit 11y agoYou can, of course, worry about both.
- pjc50 11y agoWell, I was trying to give plausible first-world examples of the top of the slippery slope, because people might readily dismiss arguments about genocide as hyperbole. I'm reminded of https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/IBM.html https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/IBM.h... In some ways we have the reverse situation prevailing; people are successfully escaping the genocidal collapse of the middle east into Europe, but are under threat of deportation by increasingly determined immigration enforcement.
- JadeNB 11y ago> Price discrimination? Denying credit? Sure, but there are far worse things to worry about. pjc50 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9705558 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9705558) says exactly that: > This may just be price discrimination, which is what people are concerned about in the retail context. Or it may be more extreme. You could use it to deny job applications or credit to anyone who'd been at a political demonstration filmed by police, for example.