thruway516

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by thruway516 5y ago
I think it's the idea of collecting them in the first place that most people are uncomfortable with. It's still a lot of trust to put in the hands of a private company. It reminds of the whole brouhaha with Apple and their CSAM pr
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by thruway516 5y ago
"What then? What bad stuff could happen?" I leave that to your imagination. It comes down to individual preference and where you draw the line at privacy. I personally wouldn't trust my biometric data to any FAANG let alone s
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by thruway516 5y ago
Zk proofs have nothing to do with Snowden’s criticism. They’re collecting and storing iris hashes regardless of whether they’re using Zk proofs downstream in their tech stack.
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by thruway516 5y ago
Yes. It’s very good for the project (and the NSA), not so great for users. I’m responding to the comment that prefers to give biometric data to some random private company
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by thruway516 5y ago
Well a passport can always be faked. If the world became a totalitarian dystopia and you were a freedom fighter that had to elude detection, you can always use a fake passport. Faking biometrics is much harder if they already have your data
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by thruway516 5y ago
Huh? They’re collecting and saving them, at least up to the point of confirming all new user accounts which happens sometime after they scan irises. I might have missed it but I don’t see anywhere in their docs where it says they discard th
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by thruway516 5y ago
A billion users IS a goldmine. Ask Google, facebook, twitter, reddit. None of these companies had any significant revenue for the first couple years.
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by thruway516 5y ago
Maybe we won't even have languages at all. We'll just communicate through gifs. My point is who knows. *Wow Someone really took offense at Mandarin
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by thruway516 5y ago
An alien civilization of giant lizard men that once roamed the earth whose dietary habits were superior and everyone should emulate (by buying and reading my book - "The Paleo-Plastic Diet for modern man").
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by thruway516 5y ago
Assuming anyone is still speaking English, and not say Mandarin or even some obscure African language no one has even heard about yet.