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The US government will let you use facial recognition to access services online - but don't worry, your data is safe (news.retiolus.net)

submitted 1 year ago by retiolus@lemmy.cat to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They already have most of it. You can never protect yourself against the government you reside under in this way.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Regardless of what they already have, I still plan to avoid providing anything further that I can control. More images improve facial recognition accuracy, and they may only have old pictures of me from my driver's license. Providing a "video selfie" is like the AIDS penis anal rape level of privacy invasion and I won't do it.