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What's your policy for complying with the patchwork of national biometrics laws?


Ignore them? Operate outside of US reach. The tubes are global.

EDIT: Legally, you have no right to privacy in public, if your photo is captured in public (US centric), broadly speaking. You have the right to record law enforcement officers exercising their official duties in public.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/yes-you-have-right-fil...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/federal-judge-upholds-...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/fourth-circuit-individ...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/victory-another-court-...


Taking someone's photo is different than storing their biometrics. The latter would violate laws such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_Information_Privacy_...


So avoid being subject to the US jurisdiction, if applicable. Do not store data or operate the system from within the US, or any country within US reach.

https://owasp.org/www-community/Threat_Modeling_Process


No biometrics collected. It's only scanning bodys, clothes and details on gear.


Crypto apps running in eg smart contracts will be able to interact directly with it and trust it, rather than needing to trust a third party oracle that retrieves the data externally.


They asked how it would be an improvement. You've described how it would be different...


It improves one flow without affecting another. You might not like what it improves but it does improve something.


You haven't articulated how. You've explained that it is different but not what end goal that enables that actually improves anything.

Like, I can store this data on a server in a yaml file and that would be different. But it wouldn't improve anything. Taking an action and using a technology are not improvements in and of themselves.


Actually that does sound like an improvement, I hadn't considered the need for trusted publishers interacting directly with the blockchain making smart contracts more meaningful.


All third-party oracles are simply contracts on other blockchains. The new blockchain is yet another third-party oracle for the contract to interact with.


Ok, and PFOS and PFOA?


Only $50?


tldr: please believe us, she had it coming


He seems to be wrecking his body in creative and previously unseen ways:

- resting body temperature of 94.9 F

- inability to naturally produce tears


So a spike protein slightly different than what was intended could have been produced?


Don't waste your time?


Technology putting people out of work is a story as old as time.


Let's hope it doesn't put everyone out at the same time.


Theodosian Walls.


Why not $100 per hour?


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