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[Ian Livingston]

Yeah, that story is creepy at every level. I remember scoffing at the
notion of a 'cashless' society and I'm still creeped out using a debit
card, wish I'd never consented to acquiring credit. It may be paranoia, may
not, but why does anyone need to know about me? about any of us lesser
pawns?


On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Naomi Wolf ponders the new "totalitarianism of surveillance": A software
> engineer in my Facebook community wrote recently about his outrage that
> when he visited Disneyland, and went on a ride, the theme park offered him
> the photo of himself and his girlfriend to buy – with his credit card
> information already linked to it. He noted that he had never entered his
> name or information into anything at the theme park, or indicated that he
> wanted a photo, or alerted the humans at the ride to who he and his
> girlfriend were – so, he said, based on his professional experience, the
> system had to be using facial recognition technology. He had never signed
> an agreement allowing them to do so, and he declared that this use was
> illegal. He also claimed that Disney had recently shared data from
> facial-recognition technology with the United States military.Yes, I know:
> it sounds like a paranoid rant.
>



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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