THE ‘NO CONSENT’ COLLECTION

Meta is trying to bring their Wayfair styled Computing glasses to closed-circuit court appearances and any retailer near you to complete a biometric read on anyone in it’s range of speculative uses. The judge almost cited Zuckerberg this week for contempt in court. Meta’s legal and PR team advised to wait until the public was ‘distracted’ to launch biometric use features. They know involuntary capture is against the law in many cases, if not unpopular with the public.

In July 2019, Facebook settled a Federal Trade Commission investigation for $5 billion. The allegations included that the company’s face recognition settings were confusing and deceptive, and the settlement required the company to obtain consent before running face recognition on users going forward.

Less than two years later, Meta agreed to pay $650 million to settle a class action brought by Illinois residents under that state’s biometric privacy law. Then, in July 2024, it settled with Texas for $1.4 billion over the same defunct system. Nearly $7 billion across three settlements, all tied to face recognition practices the company ultimately abandoned.

- ReclaimTheNet.com

“Amazon’s Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash”

It just doesn’t sit well. The Public have watched tech companies for over 15 years. They know governments are the first biometrics and surveillance customer and publican privacy rights are an afterthought.

White House wants a reprieve in spy-powers fight that is splitting the GOP

- Politico.com

What eyeballs the gander also surveys the goose. The DOJ & FBI have been caught using mass surveillance and targeted surveillance, not for crime, but political profiling.

Here is a sample of what governments otherwise have planned for identity in the near and now, when they’re not violating each other for political reasons, up top.

* Iran marries surveillance infrastructure, national ID to control population: report

* Arizona Bill Would Require ID Checks to Use a Weather App

* Senators Talk Digital Freedom for Iran While Expanding Surveillance at Home

AND SO IT GOES…

Theft and ill-conceived consent to license other people’s stuff seems the way of Big Tech world. There is a lot of behavioral shielding to hidden crypto finance features and carefully embedded AI to filch communications and industry secrets; which are not only a target of foreign governments. Competitors now need to guard their dragon horde more now than ever.

THE TARGETS ARE…

The sick.

The children. The children. & The children.

Systems captive identity to merge as Government Systems Captive Identity.

Land

Water

and Tribute

And here is the meditation of corporate legal advisors often pushed to shed privacy protections, anyway.

When a consumer is not logged into an account, the company needs to honor an opt-out request in connection with the browser, application or device the consumer is using, and also provide notice to the consumer that they may need to log into an account or take other steps to fully effectuate an opt-out.

-Thought for the week: Lessons learned from $2.75M CCPA settlement

»>Here is the working map to the laws of the land on AI regulation.

Please continue to support yourself and your fellow man by placing limits on government collection of your personal data, by proxy or by any other involuntary means.

Say ‘No’ to an Identity Mandate while you can.

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