cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48515135
What could go wrong with forcing a data hungry AI company like Anthropic to force it’s users to do ID verification?
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/anthropic-says-claude-may-want-to-see-your-id
Meanwhile asylum-seekers are a great source for biometric data for the UK government: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/the-uk-will-scan-asylum-seekers-faces-for-age-checks-despite-knowing-the-tech-is-flawed
As the West is trying to imitate totalitarian states as of late, they might be better advised to imitate their exports instead.
As the West is trying to imitate totalitarian states
lmao
Yup. Guess who’s doing the ID work - Persona. Yes the Persona that has the code to route every face scan via US checks. ‘Governance’ via coercion and control. ‘The beatings will continue until social cohesion improves.’ They’re all jealous of China. And we have no sovereignty. We’re full of US software and doing whatever ‘Five Eyes’ wants.
They know how dangerous AI is for cybersecurity and they’re just pushing it through anyway and expecting engineers to deal with it. https://www.itnews.com.au/news/must-act-now-to-counter-ai-borne-cyber-attacks-five-eyes-says-626815
Andy Burnham is in favour of the social media ban in the UK, and we continue to roll forward: 10 Dec 2025 No accounts for under-16s; ‘reasonable steps’ to detect and remove underage accounts 9 Mar 2026 ‘Age assurance’, i.e. ID check for adult sites 27 Jun 2026 ‘Age assurance’, i.e. ID check, for all search engines Dec 2026 Private companies can be accredited as part of the Digital ID system. Oh we’re so ready. Nothing bad will happen.
A side note-The flashing blue light mobile surveillance security units weird me out. The ones like when you pull up in a parking lot and see that blinking light, it scared the shit out of me at first. It kind of looked like a flashing cop car.
It seems the UK really needs the EU oversight. Ever since they left the country has gone to shit. And I was there after 2020 in London and despite what my parents told me, the city was shit (literally any mainland European city is better), it took a day to get out of the city by car and when got out, there was uncollected rubbish on the side of the motorway. Also there were so many CCTVs, many of which lacked the accompanying privacy notice (yes, they have GDPR, but they’ve gutted it).
