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Amazon's Palm Print Recognition System Raises Concern Among US Senators

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Re: Amazon's Palm Print Recognition System Raises Concern Among US Senators

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A bold position to take for representatives of a government that maintains multiple databases of fingerprint scans for foreign nationals and their own citizens…

It would be better if neither collected the data, but second best is that Facebook doesn't.

Re: Amazon's Palm Print Recognition System Raises Concern Among US Senators

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Yes, definitely. The government can put you in jail or shoot you, while Facebook can sell your data to advertisers.

Facebook has a lot more power than that, and you have no authority over them.

What power does Facebook have?

Re: Amazon's Palm Print Recognition System Raises Concern Among US Senators

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A big difference between a representative democratic government and a private company, I'd say.

Yes, definitely. The government can put you in jail or shoot you, while Facebook can sell your data to advertisers.

I don’t get to vote for who runs Amazon.

Re: Amazon's Palm Print Recognition System Raises Concern Among US Senators

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A big difference between a representative democratic government and a private company, I'd say.

Yes, definitely. The government can put you in jail or shoot you, while Facebook can sell your data to advertisers.

Yeah, not much more power than gov'ts have. Controlling the flow of information is pretty banal.

https://time.com/6075539/facebook-myanmar-military/

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/09/how-facebooks-free-i...

Re: Amazon's Palm Print Recognition System Raises Concern Among US Senators

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A bold position to take for representatives of a government that maintains multiple databases of fingerprint scans for foreign nationals and their own citizens…

A big difference between a representative democratic government and a private company, I'd say.

Government is just the biggest “private” company, whose business is violence[0] - both the use and mitigation of it. Every citizen is a stakeholder. Foreigners are not invested, they are competition, both friendly and not. We vote at shareholder meetings called elections.

From this simplistic framework I wouldn’t say there is a big difference. About the only thing I can think of is scale, and optimization for human wellbeing instead of profit, but that hardly feels true in the modern world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence

Re: Amazon's Palm Print Recognition System Raises Concern Among US Senators

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Facebook has a lot more power than that, and you have no authority over them.

What power does Facebook have?

Are you saying you don't think they have any power?

Re: Amazon's Palm Print Recognition System Raises Concern Among US Senators

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A bold position to take for representatives of a government that maintains multiple databases of fingerprint scans for foreign nationals and their own citizens…

It would be better if neither collected the data, but second best is that Facebook doesn't.

Facebook already doesn’t.

The article is about AMZN collecting palm prints of people that opt in to a specific program that has alternatives.

The US gov doesn’t have alternatives. When they ask for your biometric data you give it, or else they deny your clearance/ background check/entry to the country.

Re: Amazon's Palm Print Recognition System Raises Concern Among US Senators

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A bold position to take for representatives of a government that maintains multiple databases of fingerprint scans for foreign nationals and their own citizens…

A big difference between a representative democratic government and a private company, I'd say.

Yeah, very big difference indeed. I'd take the private company over government any day. Remember, companies have to ask you to buy their wares, govt just sends armed fighters to your home.

Re: Amazon's Palm Print Recognition System Raises Concern Among US Senators

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Are you saying you don't think they have any power?

Over my life? I don't know what sort of power they have over my life no.

If you are a Facebook user, there's a good chance you are manipulated by what you see there. Everyone denies it affects them (as I might, if I used Facebook), but it works. I trust the people who say they are vulnerable to manipulation - at least they give themselves a chance.

Facebook manipulates people you know (unless none of them use Facebook). Social media has dramatically changed some people I know well.

Facebook has enormous influence in the society you live in (perhaps depending on where you live), which affects you. Facebook has great power over the news people read, and Facebook is where many conspiracy theories spread, as examples.

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