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Why are they so insistant of iris scans? What are they getting out of it?
Data to sell
make the AIs better by scanning thousands of human eyes lol
Because it's "futuristic" and fascists are obsessed with that image
No, it is because it is a unique identifier for them to collect and sell.
You know it's most likely not an either/or thing. It's most likely both.
Fascists are very obsessed with image. It's a big chunk of why the Nazis hired Hugo Voss to design the SS uniforms
Fair enough.
Could be unique like a fingerprint. Might be able to crosscheck this with other biometric data, like when a picture is taken at airports or border crossings.
Those fast track lines at the airport I recently read somewhere is supplied by a private entity, which means all those face scans are just added into a database for future surveillance.
You can say no to the face scan at those. The TSA agents don't get paid enough to try to convince you otherwise and just say "okay." The amount of people just willingly scanning their faces for whatever nefarious bullshit they want to scan faces for does not surprise me, but does cause me dismay
To keep people without eyes off their platform.