Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users
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Facial recognition in smartphones is a very different thing from basically every point of view. Are you sure you don't know a single person using an iPhone? Chances are they'll be using FaceID to unlock their phone.
I don't think I know a single person NOT using biometrics to unlock their smartphone.
Edit: I'm sure there at least 3 people on Lemmy that don't use biometrics but that doesn't change anything I'm pretty sure
Edit edit: another one! Maybe there are at least 4 people now.
schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 14:26 zuletzt editiert vonnice to meet you. i don't.
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This post did not contain any content.schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 14:31 zuletzt editiert von
You'd have to get me high on PCP + cocaine + some sort of crazy shit like krokodil to just implant the idea that I need to verify my very existence to a private company to post comments online or to enjoy a website.
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This will do it. It will finally kill reddit.
schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 15:35 zuletzt editiert vonSicko.yes.gif
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This post did not contain any content.schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 15:46 zuletzt editiert von
Thanks Reddit for giving me yet another reason not to go back
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Facial recognition in smartphones is a very different thing from basically every point of view. Are you sure you don't know a single person using an iPhone? Chances are they'll be using FaceID to unlock their phone.
I don't think I know a single person NOT using biometrics to unlock their smartphone.
Edit: I'm sure there at least 3 people on Lemmy that don't use biometrics but that doesn't change anything I'm pretty sure
Edit edit: another one! Maybe there are at least 4 people now.
schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 15:52 zuletzt editiert von 0ndead@infosec.pubNow you know two of us
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A lot less than 20% when it comes to specific subjects. The great thing about reddit was finding communities around just about every topic or hobby. If 100 people had a passion for something they could meet on Reddit and still have a comfy, somewhat active sub reddit.
On Lemmy you've got generic technology, generic news, generic videogames, generic pics, and almost everything else doesn't get enough traction to keep living. It's a basic population problem, the fraction of people knowing about Lemmy is just not enough to gather around shared stuff. Even those that do use Lemmy are probably not aware of every community attempt that could interest them.
I still see more communities being abandoned than new ones appearing.
schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 16:05 zuletzt editiert vonThere are like 60 highly-specific cat subreddits but only 2 general ones on Lemmy.
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Isn't he an accelerationist? To them the more fuck ups we have the more solutions we make, which is pretty stupid of an argument in my opinion.
schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 16:16 zuletzt editiert vonI agree. We obviously need to make huge changes to how we live asap, but it seems so profoundly stupid to let a few unelected people break things without a collectively agreed upon plan in place.
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I will happily forego any/all social media (and never look back) rather than submit to such an idiotic, intrusive, perverse, and disgusting system.
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I am floop!
schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 16:58 zuletzt editiert vonI'm on to you Spartacus!
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Your bank doesn't even need to know who you are.
On a related note, Bank of America, if you're reading this, my name is
floop @lemmy.dbzer0.com, and I would like to withdraw all the money from my account. Nonsequential bills please!schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 17:13 zuletzt editiert vonThe banks are legally required to know who you are. It’s part of AML and anti-terrorist financing laws
It’s called KYC or “know your customer”.
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Drink verification can to continue.
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schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 17:43 zuletzt editiert von
2013, Quasimodo predicted this
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Facial recognition in smartphones is a very different thing from basically every point of view. Are you sure you don't know a single person using an iPhone? Chances are they'll be using FaceID to unlock their phone.
I don't think I know a single person NOT using biometrics to unlock their smartphone.
Edit: I'm sure there at least 3 people on Lemmy that don't use biometrics but that doesn't change anything I'm pretty sure
Edit edit: another one! Maybe there are at least 4 people now.
schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 18:14 zuletzt editiert vonI don't use biometrics for anything.
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I am floop!
schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 18:32 zuletzt editiert vonWe are floop!
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Identity does not need to be verified by a private company's scan of someone's eyeballs.
schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 20:04 zuletzt editiert vonExactly!
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The banks are legally required to know who you are. It’s part of AML and anti-terrorist financing laws
It’s called KYC or “know your customer”.
schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 22:31 zuletzt editiert vonKYC? Isn't that a sex lube?
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This will do it. It will finally kill reddit.
schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 22:49 zuletzt editiert vonBeen trying to get people on Reddit to cross over to the light over here but damn it’s hard
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This post did not contain any content.schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 22:50 zuletzt editiert von
...this isn't satire?
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Biounique id is an advertiser's wet dream and I don't think it's theoretically possible to prevent it from being exploited for profiling by Google. If the hashed encrypted token retains the uniqueness then it points to you as an individual across time, devices and location changes. There is no escaping this ID. You can't change it, you can't get a new one.
Google and other multinational corporations WILL know where you live and can figure out all your personal characteristics with a little time. Your anonymity is gone forever.
Sam Altman saw the film Minority Report in which iris scanners on holographic billboards trigger the advertisements to address you by name, hampering the escape of the central character who was being set up, and thought "Cool, let's make this. I'm going to be rich! The other dystopian aspects of the film are fiction, but this one I can make real."
schrieb am 21. Juni 2025, 23:15 zuletzt editiert vonAlso look at how FB et al can't even keep themselves from tracking you all over the internet using all kinds of clever engineering engineering beyond plain cookies.
If it actually becomes ubiquitous, the ability to tie all the anonymous impressions to one person is too tempting for surveillance ghouls.
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If World ID becomes one of Reddit’s third-party providers, it would be good news for Tools for Humanity, which was founded six years ago with the lofty goal of providing a universal basic income to the world by offering them cryptocurrency called Worldcoin in exchange for scanning their eyeballs with an Orb.
What the actual fuck.
Seriously how on Earth is that supposed to work?
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 02:28 zuletzt editiert vonSelling data on people is a lucrative business. Although it is a business and not UBI.
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