Leif-Nissen Lundbæk
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Leif-Nissen Lundbæk is the co-founder and CEO of Xayn. He specializes in privacy-preserving AI.
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Kill the standard privacy notice
There has been a rather fervent acceleration in planned biometric data collection in recent months. If you’re not worried about it, you should be.
In fact, silly as it sounds, try being more worried about it than seems normal. After all, for-profit biometric data collection has undergone an astounding degree of normalization in the last decade. The idea of Apple scanning your fingerprint on a daily basis once sounded startling. Now it’s how we unlock our banking app and our laptop — unless, of course, we do it with our face. It’s gone mainstream.
We embraced FaceID, thumbprint scanning and similar functions specifically because they are convenient. No passcode, no problem.
Corporations and businesses saw this, and now convenience is among the two biggest reasons typically given for the adoption of biometric data collection – the other is public safety, which we’ll get to later. Quick biometric scans, we’re told, make things faster and easier.
In a bid to save time, a number of primary schools throughout the U.K. recently implemented facial scanning for lun …
