As an Australian I have no interest in "defending" a country that's rampant with shit stain politcans, their oligarchs, along with their supporters and retinue.
Well, not really they have face recognition on the entrance to see if you match one of the scum bags beating their staff or stealibg shit and it's deleted, there's no tracking. If you do match there security staff are alerted.
Taking them at their word, your image is deleted after 0.2s and they have no idea who you are anyway. Your anonumous scan just doest match said scum bag.
I'm ok with it if what they say happens does happen, an audit by the privacy commissioner should conform that either way and then thy can clear them or expose them. Instead they just said don't do it.
It's nothing like biomteric scans at airports where who you are is matched to your facial scan.
It's indeed an odd name but holding it back from what ? Its not a popularoty contest . Why is "widespread adoption" seen as the metric for success? That onky needed for shitty commercial products, to me it's great right now..
As an Australian I wish we'd negotiate to join the EU. Philosophically we have more in common with the EU then America and together is better.
But we cant even join with New Zealand and od not ne suporsed if the EU didnt want us, I'd not want us, though we do all seem to mostly hate immigrants so we have that in common :(
Hers a list of Fedi based projects where parople have said the same thing
Mastodon
Lemmy
GotoSocial
Bookwyhrm
Then step outside that
Linux
GNU
Then stuff like
Meta
Twitter
Microsoft
Apple
Oracle
AI
Do anything and some people will dislike you. I save my loathing for the commercial projects and the inevitable enshitiftacion of the internet that they necessarily add to.
No, a teapot, and Bertrand Russell wants a word..