As a cybersecurity engineer holy lmao bad idea.
You think identity theft is bad with socials?
You think fraud is bad with credit cards?
Jesus fuck, y’all.
DEF CON 37 - “Eye-Spy: Building Convincing Synthetic Iris Data for Fun and Profit”
I had a student visa to study in the UK like 6 ish years ago. They scanned my face. (A literal box I had to put my face in.) My fingers. My palms. Both hands. My iris too I believe with the face scanner. I can’t recall if they took a blood sample but I don’t think so. Surprisingly.
That was required. And I recall having to go to st. Louis to get it done (nearest big city at the time).
Then once I arrived in Britain. I was told I had like 10 days or something to check in at the school and get scanned again to verify my identity.
I felt it was rather invasive.
But it was either agree or not get my school visa. So.
A few years later the state of Illinois started making it mandatory to get your driver’s license photo without glasses. To scan your face.
They have been collecting this data for a while now.
They absolutely are using it for imperfect, highly inaccurate, facial recognition software. To pin crimes on innocent people.
Uncle Sam? Nah, republicans.
It’s Uncle Sam until he sheds those ticks
Uncle Samael as an army buddy would say.
NO.
