Apple Responds to Senator's Request for Info on Face ID Privacy and Security

[skywalkerr69]

You know, you have a point here: why didn't Franken criticize Equifax?

Oh. He did!

He informed consumers

He introduced a bill for consumer protection

He led a complaint about Equifax's forced arbitration clause

He participated in a hearing with Equifax's outgoing CEO

But yeah, man, he's just trying to keep himself in the news!

I found all that with five minutes of googling.

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Yes, actually.

That example took me, like, two seconds of googling, so what on earth are you talking about?



Um, part of the point of such inquiries is to find out if existing laws are being upheld and/or new laws are required. Duh?

Um, Congress creates laws and the courts interpret them. The “inquiries” are useless and companies can simply ignore them. Again, waste of resources.

Let me introduce you to who owns Al Franken, head over to opensecrets.org and do some research. I mean you’re good at googling! I’m good at researching.
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This was easily one of the most technical and hardest hitting questioning during Gorsuch’s confirmation. Every hearing I watch (and I watch at least a dozen a month) that Franken is in he consistently proves to be one of the best educated (on the given topic of the hearing) and deepest studied of any of the lot.

If you think this man isn’t deeply involved in learning the nuances of the topics before his committee you simply aren’t paying attention to any of the actual things our legislators are doing in their governance role (meaning, not in front of cameras). There are hordes of disinterested members stating, verbatim, the talking points from the industry PR firms a given hearing might impact.

It seems to me like you have a superficial TV news perception of how our government, and its members, operate in their official roles day to day. Franken has shown himself to be far more than an entertainer who parlayed his social capital into government (there are dozens of examples through history, two of whom currently serve in the White House), the man actually does his homework.

Again, waste of resources. Gorsuch was a lock, in fact one of the easiest confirmations and in terms of law he was impeccable. Al loves to make a big show he loves to waste time just like his “letters.” He’s just as partisan as all the others. I wonder how hard he would have questioned if it was one of Hillary’s nominations.

And he’s I watch them when I have time. I like to know what they’re doing. Also, the cameras are always on. How do you think you get to see all that? It’s not hidden.

 

[NT1440]

Again, waste of resources. Gorsuch was a lock, in fact one of the easiest confirmations and in terms of law he was impeccable. Al loves to make a big show he loves to waste time just like his “letters.” He’s just as partisan as all the others. I wonder how hard he would have questioned if it was one of Hillary’s nominations.

And he’s I watch them when I have time. I like to know what they’re doing. Also, the cameras are always on. How do you think you get to see all that? It’s not hidden.

...I gave you ONE example OF HIS ABILITY TO DEEP DIVE INTO THE ISSUES, a notion you decried. That was the point. Now upon seeing that you’ve tried to move the argument it being a waste of time. That was not the point.

EVERY hearing he is in he portrays the exact same approach in being well researched and asking,in specific detail, the nuances of the issue at hand.

That was the point we were going back on forth on, it’s far to late to move the goalposts.

 

[countryside]

Have read that the x-phone has a feature to quickly disable the facial recognition system to prevent forced entry, not sure how it would work in practice though (how do you know you're about to be mugged...)

It would be interesting if you could make it so you have to do a specific facial expression or set of expressions to get unlocked. May make it harder to force enter in...

 

[Tech198]

It would be interesting if you could make it so you have to do a specific facial expression or set of expressions to get unlocked. May make it harder to force enter in...

otherwise,,,your friends would be cracking up when you do.