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The rise of ID/face scanning to access bars & clubs
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this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2026
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The worst part is all our data is stored on American servers run by megacorpos. ID information scanned by venue terminals is one, but even private health records and sensitive government documents are being chucked into Amazon S3, Azure/OneDrive and Dropbox.
The government should be prioritising secure, independent digital infrastructure but they're too busy giving our tax dollars to foreign consulting firms so they can build bad websites.
Far from being a passive participant in our information being disseminated everywhere, they are actively undermining our privacy everywhere. They want our information, all of it, so they've made sure they can get it without warrants or judges or oversight, but so too can everyone else.
They've had their priorities all screwed up. That's what was so frustrating about the president railing against the "deep state," the bureaucracies are a problem and do need to be reigned in, he tapped into the anger on that, and trade, and will make those things worse not better. Only able to because the opposition party sold out to the rich and powerful.