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The rise of ID/face scanning to access bars & clubs
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I don’t drink and go to bars. Sure I could show that’s a silly reason for a denial. Live music doesn’t require alcohol.
Hearing aids? Denied.
Yeah but it’s going to be more insidious than that. A few points in a vector somewhere in a large model used to personalise a quote. You typically never know what they fuck you about. Even here in Europe the right of access provided by gdpr might not reveal that bullshit: once the model has been training the atomic data is eventually purged…