Persona’s exposed code compares your selfie to watchlist photos using facial recognition, screens you against 14 categories of adverse media from mentions of terrorism to espionage, and tags reports with codenames from active intelligence programs consisting of public-private partnerships to combat online child exploitative material, cannabis trafficking, fentanyl trafficking, romance fraud, money laundering, and illegal wildlife trade
In the 1930’s, IBM subsidiary companies were responsible for the census data and concentration camp cataloguing systems in Nazi Germany (and it’s invaded territories). The numbers tattooed on prisoners were five-digit IBM Hollerith numbers, corresponding to their dedicated punch card. With an estimated 40k+ camps of different types, the machine leases would have been very lucrative for IBM. They won’t say how lucrative, and they made sure they had complex financial setups through “neutral” countries.
IBM systems also underpinned the
concentration“internment” camps in the US holding people of Japanese background. But of course, they’re much louder about their 1930’s history in winning the US Social Security contract - older SSNs were also Hollerith numbers.It would be amusing that punch cards were a more secure system if history didn’t look like it was rapidly repeating.
TIL, thank you.
It was even worse than this. IBM also helped figure out how many Jews needed to be hauled away in trains. They used their computing power to determine how many Jews needed to be killed to clear out the ghettos based on population and ability to kill them. They helped plan the logistics for the Holocaust.
“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they’ve learned to work together.” -> mostly we just call the unification of Capitalists scum and state for “Fascism”… Congratulations to Merica and its vassal states for reaching the end-state of Capitalism. You made it - faster than any other nation in history…
They are becoming one, united against us.
No way. Who could have seen that coming?
The solution, boycott
How can I boycott something I don’t participate in more?
Fuck these ages verification checks, for now, embrace the VPN life
Yeeeeaaaaahhhhhh…not doing that, because duh.
I could not be less surprised.
Let’s be real, we all knew this was coming. I’m not even surprised.
I’m literally just in the comment section now to post a gif saying something along those lines but you beat me to the comment so I’m just gonna post a gif here
