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FineCoatMummy

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  • Lemmy and VPN - no posting allowed

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  • I get why some have instances have the restriction though.

    I get it too.

    Which is why I so fucking hate ppl, companies, govs, w/e who abuse services. When it gets bad enough, it makes the service clamp down. And that means loss of privacy for everyone. Even the ppl not abusing it.

    TBF I don't know what will prevent the more open Lemmy instances from that fate. Today, Lemmy flies under the radar. Too small for anyone to notice or care. Too tiny to be target for mass disinfo campaigns. Or shitty influencers to infest and take it over. But if it gets big enuf... it'll have the same probs. There are probs that aren't do to the algorithms on reddit or w/e. Some come from sheer scale. Humans gotta ruin everything nice.

  • Even Google warns Canada bill c-22 creates surveillance backdoors

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  • A 1930s what now?

    These guys. You can't really call them the OG surveilence agency. That goes back 1000's of years. But the idea of the quote is this. If they saw the pure scale of modern surveilence... The enormity of it. Even they would say "nah come on be reasonable guys." Like Google here with C-22.

  • Even Google warns Canada bill c-22 creates surveillance backdoors

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  • Thanks! I have a notion that your political system is less crazy dysfunctional than ours. So... got my fingers crossed for a good outcome.

    I found this, with transcripts of the debate. https://openparliament.ca/bills/45-1/C-22/

  • Even Google warns Canada bill c-22 creates surveillance backdoors

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  • So hey Canadians... spare a thought for your clueless friends to the south! Is there a good chance C-22 fails to pass? What's the lowdown?

    I've read a couple stories about the bill. But they only talk about everybody who hates it. Signal, Apple, etc. I haven't seen any analysis of the political situation. Like, if there might be enough MPs aligned against it to torpedo it.

    Err... MPs vote on it, right? Sorry. Clueless yank.

    edit for typos

  • Even Google warns Canada bill c-22 creates surveillance backdoors

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  • Forgot where I heard it now. But somebody said if the literal ass 1930's Stasi saw modern surveilence, they would blush and tell us we're taking this a little too far.

  • How Google Tracks Everything You Do and How to Stop It

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  • Shoutout to yt-dlp.

  • What do you NOT do, that you would do without privacy violation? [discussion]

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  • Moving back to analog, wherever I can. Things like pen and paper, print instead of digital, and so on. And also to physical media I could fully own, instead of streamed ones I don’t own.

    Love this! That's my approach too.

    Paper books, not e-books. Oldschool non-connected mp3 player, not a phone app that sends my listening habits in real time to who TF knows where. Oldschool non-connected digital camera. Only has usb.

    I actively avoid any consumer tech that wants to phone home. Unplugging is good. Wrestles control back from BigTech. Puts it back in OUR hands.

    I believe one of the best things the privacy community can do, is help our friends and families unplug too!

  • What do you NOT do, that you would do without privacy violation? [discussion]

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  • I’d start a YouTube channel to document my travel life, but Google.

    I hear ya... So, what I've done about it is to self host videos & pics.

    Potato tier VPS is dirty cheap. I host my vids and some for friends and family. Random shit. Pet vids. Little vacation clips. Cool projects. W/e. What we want to share with each other but not with G. Raw dog custom HTML.

    You can gate it any old way. I use a simple IP gate. Friends can come in. BigTech stays out.

    You don't need much, when you're not hosting for the whole ass world.

  • What do you NOT do, that you would do without privacy violation? [discussion]

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  • I’ll probably get down voted into oblivion for saying that in this forum

    Not by me!

    Everyone has their own balance to find...

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    discussion

    What do you NOT do, that you would do without privacy violation?

  • Canada is about to end private digital conversation — Bill C-22

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  • I'm not super plugged into Canadian politics. But for our friends to the north, I really hope this won't pass. Wasn't a similar bill voted down in the EU recently? Chat Control? So maybe there is hope for Canada too?

    It seems like it's the same story everywhere.

    Some gov: "We shall require identity verification! We shall require encryption backdoors!"

    Randos: "Nah. We'll VPN around that shit."

    Gov: "Holy shit! Randos are VPNing! We must ban VPN!"

    Randos: "Holy shit! They're banning VPN! We better find ways to circumvent that!"

    Gov: "Holy shit! Randos are circumventing our VPN ban! We better improve our VPN detection and blocking!"

    Randos: "Holy shit! They're better at detecting VPN now... We better tunnel over HTTPS..."

    Round and round. Unfortunately, once the pain gets too high, it CAN be effective. Some countries went very far down this road already. It isn't like 100.0000% effective. But it doesn't have to be. Raise the tech bar enough. Make the legal risks too great. Eventually most ppl will give in. A handful will be super determined. But most won't.

  • Signal warns it would pull out of Canada if made to comply with lawful access bill

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  • That's always been a red line for me. If we lose that, we are at the mercy of the gizmos true owner. Maybe the true owner is benevolant. Or maybe they aren't. Either way! A golden cage is still a cage!

    My friends don't feel that way. TBH I only do b/c my pa is an old mainframe guy and after personal computing arose he had C64's and stuff. Those oldschool home computers answered to the human at the kb. I picked up his values. Digital gizmos should answer to me, not to BigTechCo. B/c BigTechCo can be pressured. It can change ownership and policies overnight. Then everyone loses their computing freedom at once.

  • Thoughts on privacy focused smart glasses?

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  • It is dystopian, for sure. That's why I don't want them to catch on. But I also can see valid uses in the spirit of what bright@piefed.social said.

    Think about ppl with face blindness. Or those who are getting older with senility, and need a reminder of t heir relationship to the person they are talking to. Or technicians to reference up schematics or w/e while having both hands free for work. Maybe even surgeons, to get superhuman / synthetic senses.

    Those feel like good uses. But... I can't imagine ANY way to have the good, without the much bigger privacy clusterfuck. So I don't want them to catch on as consumer devices. And I want social pressure against glassholes to continue. The good of the tech is real. But the dystopia will be too much, for too little gain.

  • Thoughts on privacy focused smart glasses?

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  • I'd say, b/c it's impossible to know that by looking at the glasses.

    You see a rando walking around with smart glasses. You can't tell at a glance what it can / cannot do. So you must assume the worst.

    I'm with Vegafjord oakframer. Normalization will be problematic. Maybe in a perfect world it coudl be OK. But in our world, abuse at scale is 100% inevitable. That's why I think social pressure against smart glasses is for the best.

  • A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide

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  • Agree with you about possible loopholes. My ideal would be to ammend the language of the bill to explicitly forbid USE of ALPR data. No matter even if the data came from a privately owned camera. In fact, we may be able to write to our reps to suggest that.

    But assuming we don't get that far in this particular bill, I still think it's better than not passing it at all. First, a lot of communities will resepct the spirit of it. I think mine would do that. We're already on the edge of banning them city wide. Lots of opposition to the cameras here in the electorate and we're pressuring the city gov. With a national bill like this, I don't believe my local gov would try to loophole it.

    Of course, some others would. There would prob be court cases over it, yada yada. But nationwide, I believe this bill would make a dent. Even in its flawed form. It would also raise awareness of Flocks with Joe Sixpack. Most ppl don't like the idea at all, once they learn of it. Just building momentum helps. Even if it's not the end of the journey.

  • Disney sued over facial recognition technology at California parks

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  • Funny that. I have actually changed my driving routes to avoid Flock.

    Adds some distance to bypass their shit. But fuck those guys.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    FineCoatMummy @sh.itjust.works

    Disney sued over facial recognition technology at California parks

    www.nbcnews.com /news/us-news/disney-sued-facial-recognition-technology-california-parks-rcna346062

  • Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools and should not be undermined  – Open Policy & Advocacy

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  • UK, meet Utah.

    Utah, meet the UK.

    When you're taking after such esteemed defenders of human rights as ...

    <checks notes>

    ... North Korea, Belarus, Oman, China, and Russia, you might want to have another think about this.

  • Just got this popup whilst trying to open a website using archive.is

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  • Reminds me of those privacy policies. "We don't sell your data!" in the big type. When you dig more into the fine print... they don't! But they do "share it within their partner family of companies". And then THOSE companies sell it. Or sometimes, sell inferences made from it, even if not sell the data.

  • Just got this popup whilst trying to open a website using archive.is

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  • Ugh, yeah. Cloudflare too. I hate it. It's like 2/3 of sites I try,

    Blah blah needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding.

    Then it goes to an enedless reload loop. Or gets stuck.

    I went to a site last week that belonged to a human rights organization. It's a ranking of countries by different aspects like economic freedom or w/e, and some articles about their methodolgy. Couldn't load it due to fucking Cloudflare. Cloudflare does not deem me worthy to read about human rights.

    Why? Because I try to protect my right to privacy. The irony.

  • How to prevent websites from tracking you (all browsers)

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  • Ayup. For those not in the know... it's a huge industry now, called Identity Resolution.

    They use every available signal. A million browser fingerprinting signals. Which are much worse if you run JS. But even TLS fingerprints. Timings. How long does it take for your browser to fetch resources from these 20 domains. Canvas readbacks. A million things.

    This was predicted when govs started to clamp down on cookies. Cookies were the easiest thing in the damn world to block or delete. After the ad and surveilence industry lost cookies for tracking they moved to less savory methods. Ones much much harder to block or deter. We didn't get rid of tracking with cookie-consent. Instead we made it unimaginably more powerful.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    FineCoatMummy @sh.itjust.works

    Lawsuit Alleges AI Platform Illegally Recorded Patient-Clinician Conversations

    www.hipaajournal.com /lawsuit-ai-platform-illegally-recorded-patient-clinician-conversations/
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Challenge over Met Police's use of live facial recognition lost

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cq59x4vv954o
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    FineCoatMummy @sh.itjust.works

    Online shopping, privacy and behavior prediction. A rant.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Closing the Data Broker Loophole

    www.pogo.org /fact-sheets/fact-sheet-closing-the-data-broker-loophole
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    FineCoatMummy @sh.itjust.works

    Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

    arxiv.org /abs/2602.16800
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    FineCoatMummy @sh.itjust.works

    Moving and keeping home addy private?

  • sh.itjust.works Main Community @sh.itjust.works
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    Is it possible to see only new post replies?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Car (lack of) privacy, and what to do about it. Let's talk about this?

    www.mozillafoundation.org /en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/
  • Books @lemmy.world
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    Lauren Haney, "Right Hand of Amon" etc? Good?

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lauren_Haney