Questions

This is when the scanner scans your face, like in a police station if you're charged or even cautioned with a crime. Apple started asking recently for your biometric face scan for their facial recognition database - and fingerprint records as well - , claiming it is just to unlock your phone, payments, and Animojis. Intelligence agencies, the military and police forces have no doubt been watching closely. In all likelihood your face scan and fingerprint goes straight on their database, whereas before, you would have to be in police custody before they had any legal right to force you to surrender this private and very personal data.

It is a fascinating phenomenon that, much like electing despots into power, 'drinking the kool aid', signing up to LifeLog (Facebook), or accepting fascism and war because of propaganda, people just go along with the most outrageous requests for absolutely no good reason. Im interested to see what the ratio - of users of these technologies - is.

This is when the scanner takes your fingerprints, like in a police station if you're charged or even cautioned with a crime. Apple has been asking for a couple years now for your fingerprint records, claiming it is just to unlock your phone. Intelligence agencies, the military and police forces have no doubt been watching closely. In all likelihood your fingerprint goes straight on their database, whereas before, you would have to be in police custody before they had any legal right to force you to surrender this private and very personal data.

It is a fascinating phenomenon that, much like electing despots into power, 'drinking the kool aid', signing up to LifeLog (Facebook), or accepting fascism and war because of propaganda, people just go along with the most outrageous requests for absolutely no good reason. Im interested to see what the ratio - of users of these technologies - is.