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Suppose you’re fed up with being video surveilled in public and you object to your neighbor placing your home under 24/7 video surveillance which is fed to a surveillance advertiser (#Amazon). Or you want to kill the video surveillance in vending machines....
Language is important. The corporate propagandists are winning the language branding battle. In fact there is no battle because the pushover public just accepts their terms. We need to organize and define their garbage with our terms. E.g....
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11992277...
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/8481789...
Hi all, a shy try to awake this community again :)...
Not sure if this is the right community to post this in, as we don’t have any !main or similar community, but it seemed the most relevant. Sorry if it doesn’t belong....
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/5888507...
In future, it will be easier to trace anonymous bomb threat calls in Switzerland and locate people at risk more quickly during emergency searches....
Dozens of cross-party MPs and peers have joined a campaign for an “immediate stop” to the use of live facial recognition surveillance by police and private companies....
Today, the Colorado Supreme Court became the first state supreme court in the country to address the constitutionality of a keyword warrant—a digital dragnet tool that allows law enforcement to identify everyone who searched the internet for a specific term or phrase. In a weak and ultimately confusing opinion, the court...
How sensitive is a DL number? DL numbers are typically an encoding of full name, DoB, and gender. So IIUC, it’s as sensitive as that info, which as far as I can tell is not overly hard to get legitimately. A criminal with that info can derive your DL# anyway. Yet apparently DL numbers are used to identify you when opening...
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/6251633...
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The collection of DNA and other biometric idendity data can lead to a scary reach of surveillance....
Hi all...
I went to a cafe in Amsterdam which turned out to not only be cashless, but their payment processor was “Zettle”. Zettle is owned by #PayPal (who shares customer data with over 600 corporations)....
cross-posted from: fedia.io/m/privacy/t/312963...
The U.K. Parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill (OSB), which says it will make the U.K. “the safest place” in the world to be online. In reality, the OSB will lead to a much more censored, locked-down internet for British users. The bill could empower the government to undermine not just the privacy and security of...
