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by jazzyjackson 6 days ago
It’s not inevitable if people choose to make it illegal. Illinois for one has strict laws around collecting bioinformatics.
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Maybe I'm cynical, but it's already here.

Is this the Illinois law? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_Information_Privacy_... Because the second sentence in that article is "Notably, the Act does not apply to government entities."

My whole point is that the tech is already on top of us, the only question that's still up in the air is who gets access to it.