This is big: The IRS has notified my office it plans to transition away from using facial recognition verification, as I requested earlier today. While this transition may take time, the administration recognizes that privacy and security are not mutually exclusive. https://t.co/jw7OR7dNo0
— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) February 7, 2022
Fantastic
It all boils down to who Putin would rather do business with after 2024: Biden or Trump? The smart money is on Biden.
Russia is a middling country with far too many nukes.
Russia has a small economy and treasury which is raided regularly by the authoritarian Putin and his corrupt oligarch pals.
Both Russia and China are kleptocracies, but only China is a police state.
Neither of them is a political democracy and neither has a socialist or communist economy.
If you live in a kleptocratic police state, then you’re in a world of hurt and it might be time for you to make a few changes in your country.
A facial recognition system was the first thing that the Chinese police state got up and running.