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The US government will let you use facial recognition to access services online - but don't worry, your data is safe (news.retiolus.net)

submitted 1 year ago by retiolus@lemmy.cat to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I make no comment on surveillance or this type of “advancement” but just came here to say that history has proven time and time and time and time again, and again, that statements made about how your data is protected by the utmost cutting edge security system have been bald faced lies. T-Mobile hacked almost 5x in the past 4 years. They also offer business network security solutions to companies. They all claim the same. Yet… hacked 5x in 4 years. They are just one of many.

My last employ wasn’t any different. Promised enterprise class security and yeah, we did not have that. Not even close, my home network was more secure lol.