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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/13875589

Ruling: Thumbprint scan is like a "blood draw or fingerprint taken at booking."

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[–] Anticorp 10 points 7 months ago

They know this. They don't care. They decided to treat digital life as its own separate thing 20 years ago, a thing that they can violate all laws on, despite clear analogous real life equivalents from which to form precedent.