During the past few years I was avoiding the increasing number of products or services that required biometric verification, specially face recognition (FR). But the things are getting harder are harder in my country:
- The largest e-commerce platform in latin america and the most used in my country requires FR to use it. It was possible to use cash if you buy from its website but since a couple of weeks it’s requesting me to identify using it’s app.
- The telecoms demands FR from now on if you want a new SIM card in case you lost your phone or it’s been stolen.
- The bank is now pressing me to use their app with FR as a 2fa when using homebanking from its website, something that wasn’t necessary up to some weeks ago.
- The government is in the same direction as it’s moving to digitalizing many burocratic procedures and also requires FR.
and the list is increasing quickly.
I’ve never used any private social networks and I’ve degoogled many years ago, the only non free software that I use is Whatsapp because in some countries in latin america is almost imposible not to use it, you need it even to call to the car towing service.
Anybody that is well informed knows the dangers of allowing such an amount of private information now tied to our face be available for hackers now equiped with AI, but frankly it seems a lost cause to fight against something that 99.9% of people dont worry about and give consent to do so to corporations (that sell all your data to whoever wants it) and governments (who use it as a tool of control).
I don’t know, may be I’m also worring to much and it’s not that serious, after all if tens of millions of people do the same the chances of being targeted by hackers is not different of being robbed in the street (at least in latin america) and with the obiquitous surveillance cameras plus the almost unavoidable need of a phone, the government probably know exactly where you are and how you look, so the information may be already available. Perhaps it’s time to give up and adapt to the world we now live in.
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I minimize my use of the largest eCommerce platform in my country. It’s a pain, but it can be done, and I feel good about my money going to organizations that better match my values.
Sounds like a great opportunity to check into joining a credit union. All banks are predatory. There’s lots of other great reasons to minimize your exposure to banks.
I imagine you may be stuck with these. Sometimes we can’t win them all.
I wouldn’t take that as a reason to give up. Having your face on file in fewer places is very lively to save you future headaches.
Ideally this will be less of a concern in the future, when the vast majority of organizations no longer have utter shit for Cybersecurity.
But that day is not today.
Oh you optimistic madlad, never change.
Lol. Thank you. Sometimes when rational thought and optimism are at ods, I choose optimism.
Once upon a time, there was a pipe dream that rolling out encryption to everything would fix the security of the internet.
…Come to think of it, I suppose there was once a dream that putting walls around every city and village would solve banditry, and maybe war.