Are you allowed to do this in places like airports?

Who's "they?"

If we're going to have self-censorship due to everything we say online tied to our real identity can we at least get some shiny buildings and high speed trains out of the deal too? I've been online since early 2000s internet and for all the soapboxing about freedom of speech over the years it seems a foregone conclusion that we'll get the same surveillance state as those other "less free" countries else without anything to show for it.

Can we start a trend of wearing ski masks and other face coverings in public?

Is there even an option at the airport to refuse face scanning? I assume that signs you up for a one way trip to a cavity search.

TSA does it, Customs does it when entering the USA after a trip too.

it may benefit: children, social media, marketing, police state, ai, data brokers, and many others

does it benefit you?

I verified my age with Apple by clicking one button and Apple said it assumed I was 18 based on the age of my Apple account (2011).

I guess I’m lucky to be in the cohort that avoids the face scans, and I feel a bit dirty about enabling this, but so far — even living in the UK — the privacy concerns have not manifested for me as I thought they might.

To me, the most disingenuous framing of the “protect the children” narrative is not “children can’t access the stuff,” but “adults can access the stuff, once they provide their biometrics.” The default is to deny access.

Yea u, me and few others, when they say it is must everyone will follow and give them even kids faces. cos majority of ppl are sheeps that are waiting for orders same as they did with covid vaccines. During covid at some point i had feeling that my cousins will tied me up and drag to hospital to get vaccine if authorities said yes, go, hunt unvaccinated

sry but at first, I thought it was about Anthropic's authentication.

Why would you cite a Bloomberg reference in the article? Are you completely tone deaf on open source software and private ownership and use of 3d printers? FFS don’t direct traffic towards an opponent of free software.