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Friend sent me this from NY Long Island paper:

While NYS DMV says the Mobile IDs are safe, some critics argue the digital driver's license poses personal privacy and security concerns.

Digital IDs are not yet widely accepted as proof of identity. More than 25 states have adopted or are moving toward adopting the virtual IDs.

The digital IDs can be accessed by cellphones to quickly identify the holder while traveling, at bars, stores that sell liquor and tobacco products, doctor's offices & more - as long as the business decides to accept them. More than 20 airports accept the ID including NYs Kennedy & LaGuardia.

Since then, social media has lit up with concerns that the virtual IDs will serve an authoritarian government at the cost of personal privacy, including calling digital IDs "deep state psyops."

The conservative Rebel News website is pushing a petition claiming digital IDs "call for invasive collection of biometric markers, location data, banking information and vaccination records... digitization will surely have dire consequences for our lives as governments assert more power over us."

But the concern is broader. The NY Civil Liberties Union alerted the DMV about "urgent concerns" five months before the state announced the program. The group called for investigation, public debate and a full balancing of benefits and costs of the program before it was made public. "Without public debate or discernible legal and technical.

The company contracted to provide Mobile ID is Idemia Identity and Security USA, part of a French-based global company. Idemia has several contracts with the state for facial recognition, fingerprinting and other security programs.

The NYCLU's concern isn't just what Mobile ID can do now, but what in can do in the near future, said Daniel Schwarz, senior privacy and technology strategist. "The technology needs to be open sourced, revealing its full capabilities, and that state legislation is needed to provide safeguards."

WHY DOES MAGA HATE REGULATION, EXPERTISE & CONSUMER PROTECTION?

A federal appeals court struck down the FCC’s established, landmark net neutrality rules ending a nearly two-decade effort to regulate broadband internet providers like utilities.

The US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit said that the F. C. C. lacked the authority to reinstate rules that prevented broadband providers from slowing or blocking access to internet content. The decision put an end to the Biden administration’s hallmark tech policy, which had drawn impassioned support from consumer groups and tech giants like Google and fierce protests by telecommunications giants like Comcast and AT&T.

“Consumers across the country have told us again and again that they want an internet that is fast, open, and fair,” Jessica Rosenworcel, chairwoman of the F. C. C., said in a statement about the ruling. “With this decision, it is clear that Congress now needs to heed their call, take up the charge for net neutrality and put open internet principles in federal law.”

In its opinion, it pointed to the "Loper Bright" case that overturned a 1984 legal precedent that gave deference to government agencies on regulations.

The FCC had voted in April to RESTORE the net neutrality regulations Trump ended which EXPAND government oversight of broadband providers and aim to protect consumer access to the internet.

The regulations were 1st put in place under the Obama administration and are aimed at preventing internet service providers like Verizon or Comcast from throttling, blocking or degrading the delivery of services from competitors like Netflix and YouTube. The rules were repealed under President Trump, and they have proved to be a contentious partisan issue over the years while pitting tech giants against broadband providers.

A fair, transparent, neutral internet is optional, right? They'll have your best interests in mind, right? I'll never forgive the lot of you!