This is half a decade old news, but I only found this out myself after it accidentally came up in conversation at the DMV. The worker would not have informed me if it hadn’t come into conversation. Every DMV photo in the United States is being used for AI facial recognition, and nobody has talked about it for years. This is especially concerning given that citizens are recently being required to update their ID to a “Real ID,” which means more people than ever before are giving away the rights to their own face.

The biggest problem with privacy issues is that people talk about it for a while, but more often than not nothing ever happens to fix the problem, it simply gets forgotten. For example, in the next few years Copilot will simply become a part of people’s lives, and people will slowly stop talking about the privacy implications. What can we even do to fight the privacy practices of giants?

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    This attitude is what lets the government and big tech get away with so much bullshit.

    “Well it’s happening already so crying about it isn’t going to change anything because you know that protest has never ever been effective even once ever and I kinda like the taste of boot anyways so what’s the big deal?

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      Yes, blame me for the sorry state of the world. It’s all my fault and the fault of people like me.

      I wish.

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        I’m not blaming you for the state of the world, I’m blaming you for taking your fatalist nonsense and using it to try to bring down others with you.

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          I’m not trying to bring anyone down I’m just trying to show them their efforts will most likely be futile in the end

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            “I’m not trying to bring anyone down, I’m just trying to bring them down”

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              If the truth brings you down, thats on you.