Public interest technologist and digital rights activist, with a focus on privacy rights, privacy laws, and privacy technologies.
I'm a consultant, writer, researcher, advocate, programmer, and designer (from a previous career).
Spending most days writing, reading, and talking about privacy.
Member of the @lockdownsystems collective 🐢
Previously 🔒
Journalist + Activism & Outreach Lead at @privacyguides
Currently 👇
Available for a new remote opportunity!
Located in Canada 🇨🇦
She/Her 🏳️🌈
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Replying to @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
@davidrevoy @gabrielesvelto As a fellow artist who stopped practicing professionally a few years before this AI shitstorm hit the field, I'm so sorry. This is horrifying.
Artists have always been incredibly undervalued by modern society, but this is a new low. I weep for all my artist friends, and for all the damage this exploitative technology is doing to our world.
First, they'll ask for your official IDs to confirm your age and identity.
This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.
Then, they'll claim your official ID is
unreliable, because it was stolen so many times, and demand you share your biometric data.
They will collect your face scan,
your palm scan, and even your iris scan (no exaggeration, these are all already being collected by some companies for identification). They will claim it's super safe.
This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive biometric data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.
Then what? Rinse and escalate.
You will have lost control of not just your corporate social media accounts by participating to this, but to any data capable of validating your identity, to your privacy rights, to the protections you could use online to stay safe.
We don't have to wait that it escalates.
We can, and must, push back and say No now. Start to say No now.