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r/Technology has a filter that auto-deletes posts mentioning Elon Musk.
— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) October 28, 2022
Every few minutes someone tries to post a link to the news and it's getting deleted. pic.twitter.com/IgEpoLUmtH
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Elon Musk hs asked engineers from Tesl, $TSLA, to meet with product leaders at Twitter, $TWTR, to review code.
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Elon Musk texts Parag Agrawal
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Orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33359240
Recently, as I was about to go through airport security, a saleswoman intercepted me asking if I wished to skip the security line. Intrigued, I invited her to tell me more. She shuttled me over to the CLEAR electronic kiosk and explained how the product worked. For only $180 a year, I could skip long lines at airports, sporting events, and other large gatherings. The company's Web site explains: "Instead of using traditional ID documents, CLEAR uses your eyes and face to confirm it's really you." The CLEAR system uses not just an iris scan and facial recognition, but other biometrics like fingerprints, tied to demographic data you voluntarily hand over, and a link to your credit score (read the fine print on the consent checkbox). CLEAR also has a Health Pass that stores proof of vaccination, negative Covid tests, and health surveys.
CLEAR isn't the only enterprise working at the intersection of biometric and digital authentication. Plans for digital IDs have been in the works for several years, but they gained traction during the pandemic. ID2020 is a nonprofit alliance founded in 2016 with seed money from Microsoft, Accenture, PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Rockefeller Foundation, Cisco, and Gavi (a vaccine alliance founded by the Gates Foundation). The stated mission of ID2020 is to provide digital identities for all people worldwide by 2030. Digital IDs will be tied to fingerprints and other biometric data like iris scans, demographic information, medical records, data on education, travel, financial transactions, and bank accounts.
Almost two years before Covid, ID2020 published an article titled "Immunization: An Entry Point of Digital Identity." It argued that "immunization poses a huge opportunity to scale digital identity." The article noted cumbersome inefficiencies with paper immunization records and delineated how health challenges in developing nations could be leveraged as the pretext for implementing digital IDs. The year before, Seth Berkeley, CEO of Gavi, published a piece in Nature making the same argument: To achieve 100 percent vaccination rates in underdeveloped nations, we need digital IDs. Gavi has promoted the same message at gatherings of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The ID2020 article attempted to frame the benefits of this system as follows: "Because immunization is conducted in infancy, providing children with a digital child health card would give them a unique, portable digital identity early in life." It goes on to explain that "as children grow, their digital child health card can be used to access secondary services, such as primary school, or ease the process of obtaining alternative credentials. Effectively, the child health card becomes the first step in establishing a legal, broadly recognized identity."
This may at first glance sound sensible. But consider: If an impoverished family doesn't accept the health NGO's preferred interventions for its children, these children may not be provided any other opportunity to establish a "legal, broadly recognized identity" necessary to access things like primary school. In other words, you are literally nobody until you are vaccinated.
Just before the pandemic broke, in September 2019, ID2020 partnered with Gavi and began putting this plan into action. Using vaccines as leverage, it launched a biometrics-based digital-identity program for newborn infants in Bangladesh. The country's government embraced the initiative. When the pandemic began, ID2020 pivoted immediately to fold digital identification into Covid testing and other pandemic measures.
India's biometric ID system, Aadhaar, is the largest on the planet, with 1.3 billion digital IDs issued, covering 92 percent of the population. It requires Indian citizens to submit their photograph, iris scan, and fingerprints to qualify for social services, benefits, compensation, scholarships, legal entitlements, and nutrition programs. According to an article in the Financial Times, "Indian media has reported several cases of cardless individuals starving to death because they could not access benefits to which they were entitled." As the author notes, some critics argue the Indian Aadhaar system "has largely failed to fulfill its original promise of improving welfare and now acts as a tool for social exclusion and corporate influence."
"We are conditioning children to accept biometric verification."
Using biometrics for everyday transactions routinizes these technologies. We are conditioning children to accept biometric verification as a matter of course. Face IDs are now used in multiple school districts to expedite the movement of students through school lunch lines. Until recently, biometrics such as fingerprints were used only for high-security purposes---when charging someone with a crime, for example, or when notarizing an important document. Today, routine biometric verification for repetitive activities from mobile phones to lunch lines gets young people used to the idea that their bodies are tools used in transactions. We are instrumentalizing the body in subtle but powerful ways.
Those with economic interests in creating markets for their products---whether vaccines, digital surveillance products, or harvested data---will continue to deploy the carrots and sticks of access to medical care and other services to promote digital IDs in underdeveloped nations. In developed nations, they will initially use a velvet glove approach of nudges, selling digital IDs as convenience and time-saving measures that will be hard for many to turn down, like skipping long Transportation Security Administration security lines at airports. The privacy risks, including the possibility for constant surveillance and data harvesting, will fade into the background when you are about to miss your flight if you can't skip to the front of the line.
But as Nick Corbishley, author of a recent book on digital IDs, points out, decisions made in the moment may carry long-term negative consequences: "If biometric data is hacked, there is no way of undoing the damage. You cannot change or cancel your iris, fingerprint, or DNA like you can change a password or cancel your credit card." Unless we collectively decline to participate in this new social experiment, digital IDs---tied to private demographic, financial, location, movement, and biometric data---will become mechanisms for bulk data harvesting and tracking of populations around the globe. Welcome to the new abnormal.
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Investors wiped more than $65 billion from Meta’s market capitalization on Wednesday after the Facebook owner reported another quarter of declining revenues and failed to convince investors that big bets on the metaverse and artificial intelligence were paying off.
Shares in Meta dropped 19 percent in after-hours trading as the world’s largest social media platform joined other Big Tech groups in warning that an economic slowdown was hammering its advertising businesses as brands spend less on marketing.
On top of the wider macroeconomic woes, Meta faces a confluence of challenges, including rising competition for its Instagram platform from rivals such as short-form video app TikTok and difficulties in targeting and measuring advertising because of Apple’s privacy policy changes.
The company said it expected revenue in the current quarter to be in the range of $30 billion to $32.5 billion, compared with analysts’ expectations of $32.2 billion.
Net income in the third quarter fell 52 percent to $4.4 billion, below consensus estimates for $5 billion, according to S&P Capital IQ. Meanwhile, revenues fell 4 percent to $27.71 billion, the slowest pace of growth since going public in 2012, after a 1 percent decline last quarter. That was slightly better than analysts’ estimates for a 5 percent drop.
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and chief executive, warned the company faced “near-term challenges on revenue” but said “the fundamentals are there for a return to stronger revenue growth.”
On a call with analysts, he doubled down on his biggest bets including developing a short-form video format to rival TikTok, business messaging, and the metaverse. He tried to reassure investors that investments in these areas would pay off in the long term.
“I appreciate the patience and I think that those who are patient and invest with us will end up being rewarded,” he said, arguing that the company was doing “leading work” on the metaverse that would be “of historical importance.”
Meta’s disappointing earnings came amid a broader sell-off of Big Tech stocks. Shares of Google parent Alphabet fell more than 9 percent on Wednesday after it reported an unexpectedly severe slowdown in its core search ads business, while Snap’s stock plunged last week after it posted its slowest pace of growth since going public in 2017.
Meta, which expanded headcount rapidly during the pandemic, has faced investor scrutiny for spending heavily on Zuckerberg’s vision of building a digital avatar-filled world known as the metaverse. Like other virtual and augmented reality projects Meta is working on, this is not expected to generate returns for many years.
Revenues from Reality Labs, its metaverse unit, nearly halved in the third quarter to $285 million, while losses were $3.7 billion compared with $2.6 billion a year ago. The company said it expected operating losses in the unit to “grow significantly year-over-year” in 2023.
“Meta is on shaky legs when it comes to the current state of its business,” said Debra Aho Williamson, an analyst at Insider Intelligence. “Zuckerberg’s decision to focus his company on the future promise of the metaverse took his attention away from the unfortunate realities of today.”
The company estimated 2022 total expenses would be in the range of $85 billion to $87 billion, narrowing from its prior outlook of $85 billion to $88 billion. However, it anticipated 2023 expenses in the range of $96 billion to $101 billion despite recently seeking to cut costs and freeze most hiring.
The company said it was “making significant changes across the board to operate more efficiently” and had “increased scrutiny on all areas of operating expenses.”
But it warned “these moves… will take time to play out” and that some attempts to find savings, like shrinking its office space as more employees work from home, would result in “incremental costs in the near term.”
Zuckerberg told analysts that investment in its artificial intelligence capabilities contributed to a surge in capital expenditure but that the technology would help boost views of its short-form video format.
Analysts also raised concerns about mounting expenses. “Summing up how investors are feeling right now is that there are just too many experimental bets versus proven bets on the core,” said Brent Thill, an analyst at Jefferies.
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