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Putting “DON’T scan your face for X.” at the very end would be even stronger.
My face gets scanned by city run cameras everytime i go to the super market, and then the supermarket scans my face as well, not to mention smart passports with face scanning or whatever were introduced pre 2010. It’s too late
Then every separate service you give your face to is a separate service your city or national government can easily link to your physical movement, and that your supermarket (and anyone who buys data from the supermarket) can link to your purchases? Your situation seems like a great example of why not to give your face out even more places…?
This is a sunk cost fallacy, it’s not too late
I mean…they already have thousands of images and video on us. Not saying we should give it to them willingly but yeah we have already been cooked. If they wanted to generate a video of you doing illegal things they could and youd be jailed in an instant.
Thats why on the surface its good to pretend to support the maga regime so youre not on their radar. Then dismantle it from underneath. Thats how I look at it.
You’re helping the city cameras recognise your face by providing regular close-ups of how you look each day via your phone
Does that make the other face scanning more acceptable somehow?
Plus, you can at least wear any kind of face and/or head covering in those situations.
Do You Guys Not Have Phones?
Looks like Diablo guy was a prophet
Meanwhile their CEO loves republicans and supports fascist influencers through money and by meeting up with them for videos.
Fuck Proton.
so is menero if anyone is thinking of switching (their host country’s equivalent)
I had to scan my face a hundred times already for a hundred different places…
Hell, I live in a closed colony and the only way in is with a face scan. My biometric data is surely for sale in a hundred different places by now, so I guess I don’t really care anymore
Its not like I have an option if I still want to get home
Yeah same here. I mean you’re getting scanned everywhere now, like the grocery store, but I’m not linking my computer to my face. I will say going through the airport in Japan is a breeze compared to the shit show in US airports.
I get off the plane, get in line to check in and get my sticker, set up luggage delivery, and walk out.
thank god we can still scan our face for lemmy
Here I am: :-D
hey it’s big dan halfbyte
The only pic anyone gets of me is my dick pic.
Uh. I had a very lovely chat with someone, then I looked at their profile and saw many different angles of their dick. I was hoping to discover new subs and I discovered their dick instead. I’m not checking out your profile.
I was hoping to discover new subs
I mean, all the dick pic.s don’t necessarily mean they’re a dom.
Lmao
yeah doesnt everybody have to send the mods one every few weeks??
That’s how you keep your account still active.
If an app/website requires a face scan I won’t use it
I had to scan my face to access the $20k of I-bonds I already had with the Treasury.
WTF
https://help.id.me/hc/en-us/articles/4416509221271-Log-in-to-U-S-Treasury-using-ID-me
Policy goes into effect end of the month.
Why did all the American companies suddenly start asking for my ID?
Because we have reached some sort of critical mass of ad blocking and anonymization online, enough that it’s starting to hurt the bottom line, so they need a solid way to track people for that shit.
Also, the US is currently being run by a rabid pack of puritan Christo fascists, ie Project 2025. Right now it’s “protect the children”, but ultimately the idea is to track and sensor and “reeducate” people.
“Oh, you search for ‘signs I am gay’? Better report to God Camp.”
Don’t even think about trying to be anything that does not fit in the box.
To protect the children
To fight terrorists
Yes! To stop the terrorist children!
But the president is a pedofile protector, it doesn’t make any sense!
The president protects pedophiles because he is a pedophile himself
Exactly. He doesn’t actually care about protecting pedos. He just cares about protecting himself.
In case you didn’t get it. The “protect the children” comment was likely meant to be facetious. That’s the excuse usually used to increase authoritarian surveillance.
Lol yes, just wanted to bring the same energy from that Simpsons lady.
I usually like to verify since without a sarcasm mark and with all the different people in different cultures and language barriers, sometimes it those things tend to get lost. 🙂
for democracy burgers and missiles
I hate to say this but I am an Instagram user. They asked me to scan my face to “check if I’m a bot”, and they banned me even after I scanned my face. And no, I didn’t post my dick to a reel. This is bullshit.
Why would you be so stupid to scan your face?
I am locked out of the interface otherwise. I know it’s a stupid thing to use Instagram in the first place
Would you rob a bank too, if they asked you to? Because that’s what you’ll have done if your biometrical data gets sold into the wrong hands.
Instagram banned me when i started using a VPN and i never looked back, delete your account
However: none of my friends contact me now that i dont use META
Yeah, it’s hard to find a friend irl who happen to use pixelfed instead of Instagram
I get all of them except Roblox? Isn’t that a place for kids?
roblox enforces age verification and separates users into age groups. yet, moderation is in shambles (did i mention ai-assisted?) and separating the kids in one bunch and the teenagers in another basically is just a feast for pedos and groomers
Don’t use an ai company and expect privacy
Hard to call it an ai company when it doesn’t make ai models, proton is no more an ai company then the many companies adding ai to their website as an assistant
Proton are an ai company because they have their own ai, they also have the most ridiculous brand fans.
They don’t have their own ai, they have an ai frontend which runs preexisting open weight ai models.
Proton does have a lot of fans probably because they are the most well known ‘privacy’ company and a lot of people set and forget without reading into them.
they have their own ai
They don’t make it:
https://proton.me/blog/lumo-ai
Lumo is based upon open-source language models and operates from Proton’s European datacenters. This gives you much greater transparency into the way Lumo works than any other major AI assistant. Unlike Apple Intelligence and others, Lumo is not a partnership with OpenAI or other American or Chinese AI companies, and your queries are never sent to any third parties. Our research and development will remain focused on open models, which we will continuously improve and augment.
Per discussions online, it seems to be a mix of small Mistral and Olmo models, and GLM for the max tier.
This’d be like arguing a company hosting database software to serve a product is a “database software company.” They are a hosting some tool made by someone else, with a sticker.
they also have the most ridiculous brand fans.
Perhaps. I’m a bit scared of how much critical mass they have, TBH. But this does not make them an AI company.
“Meet Lumo, the zero-access encrypted AI assistant by Proton”
I had a 2 year subscription with proton, I walked away from it with more than a year remaining. The ai and the right wing thing is just the tip of the iceberg, but I don’t live to supply links and proof to proton fanboys (which is how this always goes), so all I suggest is that people pay attention to protons social media (reddit in particular) for a while before giving them your money and trusting them with your details, emails etc. If people cannot be bothered putting some effort into their choices, so be it, not my problem.
You are not wrong to be suspicious. I am suspicious of them TBH, we will see how they go.
But to be a bit more specific, I’m just saying that if one labels every company that provides a branded chatbot UI (or similar) as an “AI company,” that is an awfully big bucket. It’s basically any company that buys LLM usage for any user facing kind of purpose, and that is going to include a lot of otherwise great companies/projects that are not really “AI companies.”
or anything, else for that matter
too late I signed up for Revolut.
whatever you’re thinking - JUST DONT!
