Spyke
Unpopular opinion : Privacy is dead anyway, let's focus on making identification more effortless and biometric

Unpopular opinion : Privacy is dead anyway, let's focus on making identification more effortless and biometric

I can't wait for biometric identification to become true everywhere and always – public transportation, air travel, banking, payments – I'm all in right away. Let's be honest, both governments and corporations already know everything about us, literally everything; they probably know more than we do about ourselves.

So, let them make our lives easier. Lets get all ticket booking, payments, registrations and verifications based on facial or hand scanning, because my privacy doesn't exist anyway. Let's let people buy from vending machines with just the scan of their face.

My image is recorded by every device at home, at the office – my TV probably records me, and there are dozens of microphones around me, they are already recording everything anyway.

So let's forget about privacy (which let me emphasize does not exist anymore anyway) and enjoy the conveniences.

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I have a simple counter-argument. What about the hackers/government officials who could use that same information against you?

Yes, surveillance is everywhere. Yes, surveillance makes identification and authentication a lot easier. But the same surveillance could easily be misused to kidnap or murder someone (and make it look like an accident).

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