Re:Court Filings: ICE App Identifies Protesters; Global Entr...
by lazide on Friday January 30, 2026 @10:56PM
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I don’t disagree. What will (and is) actually happening is every government everywhere is rushing to get these systems setup ASAP.
Re:Court Filings: ICE App Identifies Protesters; Global Entr...
by NotSammyHagar on Saturday January 31, 2026 @03:20AM
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But it's still awful. It doesn't matter at this moment that other governments may be doing this. We don't want that for us (and I don't want it for others either).
This is one of _many_ reasons why biometrics need to be a personal civil liberty. The individual must have the right to say "no" to _any_ "requirement" for giving up biometric data, unless they are convicted as a criminal (IMO). Because once you deliver that information, you _cannot_ trust any other party _to actually do what they say will do and destroy said data_, and that's not even considering just poor storage of said data.
Once your biometrics are in a database, you're fucked *for life* because it's completely unrealistic to have it destroyed with absolute certainty. This needs to be a *global human right*, as hard as those are to come by still.