#December2017

Burger Chain in California teaming-up with surveillance company for face-scanning loyalty program. Dystopia Now, baby!

burger join surveillance giant points

A local California burger chain is banking on its customers wanting fucking loyalty points more than they don’t want want their faces fucking scanned and logged in some database somewhere. I, the ever present cynic, am guessing they’re probably right. Who needs to fight against Dystopian futures when you can get free french fries or some shit. Who needs privacy when there are hamburgers at stake, bro!

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GO FIGURE: UK agency spied on your dongs through webcam images; explored Kinect surveillance

Obey! Big Brother!

It turns out some British intelligence agency totally looked at webcam images from more than a million Yahoo user accounts. I’m shocked! Like way shocked. Double go figure: they were like “Hey we can probably look at everyone’s business through their Kinect, too.”

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