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I don't mind giving my date of birth to all the services I already pay for with credit card but face scanning? That's just creepy. Fuck off.
Date of birth (with some other details) is kind of a sensitive information in the right hands
given that governments are now starting to make certain protests illegal, definitely not as bad as having your face in a database.
Eh, I don't like it, but its kinda the norm if you wanna ever leave your country. My dad who's a PRC Citizen doesn't even have to go to the embassy/consulate anymore for passport renewal, its now done via an app, which of course they'd have to scan your face. I expect other countries to also adopt the same practice, just as they did with mass surveillance. And then it will eventually move from the government services to the private sector.
I mean, I hate to think about it, but we might have mandatory brain chips in the future... ๐