Yeah I had to go through the same thing for child support. The whole process felt so dystopian. Very uncomfortable feeling for sure

Congratulations you just registered yourself to the international ai recognition database. Now you & your family will be identifiable anywhere around the globe through any camera connected to the internet. Your permanent record has been recorded & sealed with regulartory backups. Your life is now searchable by all with the highest clearance avaliable to the ai recognition system.

I will blame it on my parents-in-law for not wanting to have the kids at their place that afternoon.

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It's not a joke,.if you see how quick naI Germany found all the Jews in Holocaust. Us researchera said it would take a team of researchers 2 to 3 years to find all the Jews manually. Germany was so quick because a few years or decades before there was a census made with the help of IBM machines, and all information was automatically processes to get Jewish addresses very quickly. So a naive census done some years before, where everyone would have said "what's the matter" was then used to exterminate 6 million people. Having your life constantly nowadays is all strategic info the next genocidal dictators in your country needs. #privacy #bigdata

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IBM and the Holocaust

Twenty years ago this week, my book, IBM and the Holocaust, exposed—backed up by a tower of documentation— that IBM knowingly organized all six...

I read the article and rembered these simple data processing machines from the books I read as a kid. IBM actually enabled that every person gets unique "QR" code in the format of the punch cards.