Private Snacking is Subversive

Do I 'butt heads' with technology much? Is a frogs a*s watertight?

LAST SUMMER on a mid summer's saturday night, (watching SNL , & for whatever reason) I found myself looking a the TEAM BLUE MSU information technology Dept. Facebook page, & Several posts had been hanging up there for a few weeks with no answers to their security questions, I offered up my opinion with the caution NOT to use face or fingerprints or eyes or ANY biometrics as passwords, since you cannot change those.,

( I even took the time to take a 'Chance' & ALTER the faceprint of the new IT guy's mug shot as a example. Sense we know the face recog software does not work like our consciousness recognizes people we know or are looking for )

Well from 1am early to when I checked again 1pm sunday afternoon on a weekend I got the boot : BLOCKED from the page. ON A SUNDAY? Then within a few weeks BOOM the campus webpage and email system gets hacked, they could still get emails but could not go thru the webpage to log in? The saying by fall was "The hackers are living in the basement" & as luck would have it: I have a alibi and witness LOL, wern't me. HEY Life lesson everyone on dealing with such? NOW in light or in line with my warning , some university campus vending machines get EXPOSED by a software glitch screen dump/ hang up letting the cat out of the bag, yep, face recognition in VENDING MACHINES!!! Geeze to what ? Track what snacks you are indulging in to see if it affects your test scores or is linked to the approved dealer's pot sales ? ...

...Enforce calorie and fat gram police policy? Make sure nurry Yheue are eating pork rinds, or which Catholics are keeping lent ? Only Ramadan approved selections for you Ahmed. > > > https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/vending-machine-error-reveals-secret-face-image-database-of-college-students/ ...

Canada-based University of Waterloo is racing to remove M&M-branded smart vending machines from campus after outraged students discovered the machines were covertly collecting facial-recognition data without their consent.

The scandal started when a student using the alias SquidKid47 posted an image on Reddit showing a campus vending machine error message, "Invenda.Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe," displayed after the machine failed to launch a facial recognition application that nobody expected to be part of the process of using a vending machine.

It sure seems , given that privacy issues WERE for decades a key "Liberal Alarmist" issue from before the "Church Committee" hearings during the 70s Nixon's & Hoover's scandals a factor, so the issue seems to simply be MONEY for the campus folks getting kickbacks in the information age for the deployment of facial recognition on campus under the excuses of 'safety' or security but the back hauled marketing consumer profiling marketing data slurping rides along just fine on fear.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bb-your-face-for-sale-legally-gather-facial-data-without-explicit-consent/?utm_id=20240305

03/04/24

Big Tech

Your Face for Sale: Anyone Can Legally Gather and Market Your Facial Data Without Explicit Consent + More

The Defender’s Big Brother NewsWatch brings you the latest headlines related to governments’ abuse of power, including attacks on democracy, civil liberties and use of mass surveillance. The views expressed in the excerpts from other news sources do not necessarily reflect the views of The Defender.

The Conversation reported:

Your facial information is a unique form of personal sensitive information. It can identify you. Intense profiling and mass government surveillance receive much attention. But businesses and individuals are also using tools that collect, store and modify facial information, and we’re facing an unexpected wave of photos and videos generated with artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

The development of legal regulation for these uses is lagging. At what levels and in what ways should our facial information be protected?

Our facial information has become so valuable, data companies such as Clearview AI and PimEye are mercilessly hunting it down on the internet without our consent.

Even if you deleted all your facial data from the internet, you could easily be captured in public and appear in some database anyway. Being in someone’s TikTok video without your consent is a prime example — in Australia this is legal.

There are no specific discussions about a higher level of protection for our facial information in general. However, the government’s recent response to the Attorney-General’s Privacy Act review has some promising provisions.

The government has agreed further consideration should be given to enhanced risk assessment requirements in the context of facial recognition technology and other uses of biometric information. This work should be coordinated with the government’s ongoing work on Digital ID and the National Strategy for Identity Resilience.

As for consent, the government has agreed in principle that the definition of consent required for biometric information collection should be amended to specify it must be voluntary, informed, current, specific and unambiguous.

SO THEN , there's the trick for so much of 'the law' as applied to 'subject' res-ident human-resources: to legally lure you to volunteer and check a box to get a service and lie to say you are informed when the entire internet is built on a pile of 40feet long terms and conditions nearly no one reads estimated to take somewhere around 3 1/2 MONTHS each year. You do that RIGHT? Just to make sure there's not some sub-clause about handing over your precious eternal soul to the dark light of lucifer for your convenience & as a condition of receiving services, goood deal? Good Grief Charlie Brown how many times can Lucy pull the football before you can kick it?