AI firms propose ‘personhood credentials’ to combat online deception, offering a cryptographically authenticated way to verify real people without sacrificing privacy—though critics warn it may empower governments to control who speaks online.

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    2 months ago

    If the alternative is corporations violating privacy even more? Absolutely.

    The absolute maximum information it’s legal for corporations should be a dozen orders of magnitude less than they do right now, and asking a single user for an ID without a clear, bulletproof cause should be an instant corporate death penalty with every bit of data they’ve ever collected erased.

    Privacy is a fundamental right and you shouldn’t be allowed to operate anywhere if you don’t respect it absolutely.