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@ PierceTheBubble @lemmy.ml

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  • The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything

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  • The first would be considered incomplete, and lead most to ask: "U kunt ... wat?" ("You can do ... what?"). "U kunt het" as "You (formal) can do it" would sound like "You removed head" but with a thick Dutch accent haha

  • The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything

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  • The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything

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  • Ah okay, so you have some sort of online portal for you doctor's office; where you can either log in using your DigiD or a regular account? That would make sense for a digitally managed system.

  • The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything

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  • Scheduling a doctor's appointment and getting a prescription refilled? I've never used my DigiD for that, nor do I think it's even an option here; it's pretty much all telephone. And as for the source code, only part of the source code was published (as a result of 'Wet Open Overheid verzoek': a request for transparency); and I believe they're migrating from Github to code.overheid.nl.

  • More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, Background Checks, and Noise Complaints

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  • citing a warning given to parents that submitting a false statement of residency may be a felony.

    Couldn't you send a letter to the address with a verification mechanism, instead of defaulting to inquiring mass-surveillance databases? And why are school districts investigating potential felonies to begin with, shouldn't that be handled by law enforcement?

    This is the same as if I put a police officer on the side of the road with a pen and a notepad and he writes down every license plate number that drives by

    The concept of collecting personal data, for the slim chance of becoming relevant in the future, should not be acceptable to anyone. If license plates are not directly relevant to an investigation, the officer, camera, or whatever else, shouldn't be logging it.

  • Law Enforcement Is Mostly Symptomatic Treatment

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  • Yeah, but the point I'm trying to make, is that it doesn't defeat the underlying argument which fuels it. The people using the fallacy are under the false impression, it's necessary to ensure their safety. It's this fabricated sense of insecurity, primarily as a result of safeguarding a self-perpetuated aristocracy, which has manufactured their consent. If this would become evidently clear to people, they would no longer default to this fear-based rhetoric.

  • Law Enforcement Is Mostly Symptomatic Treatment

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  • That exact thought has been on my mind for quite some time. It's hilarious to me, we're actually led to believe massive data centers are being constructed, simply to generate silly cat images. It's as credible as the increased bandwidth provided by 5G or fiber optics, to facilitate the download of movies within seconds: rather than being in preparation of sensors mapping the physical world in real-time, for permanently mobile (vehicles, drones, robots, etc.) or stationary sensors, respectively.

    Governments around the world go to great lengths, to not have to directly consult citizens on issues. They rather put a system in place that monitors them in the background, presumably to be able to generate rapports: serving as pseudo-studies, gaslighting them into believing there's support for causes they might oppose; and/or to serve personalized propaganda. It's ultimately the reason for the "age" verification of the web: at the very least ensuring organic engagement, and at worst tying any online activity to individual persons.

    If we do not manage to stop the current trajectory, we might end up in a dystopia, where there's a God-like apparatus quite literally always observing us (which is what Peter Thiel might really refer to, when comparing efforts against it to the anti-Christ). Where we need to explain to our children the sky is looking back at them, and everyday objects hide sensors, tracking their every move and breath they take. And that despite you being their biological parent, any relevant decisions are actually being made by the machine.

    If that becomes reality, I seriously doubt I could live life knowing that. And will likely take my own life as a result of it, that is assuming it will allow me to haha... ;)

  • Law Enforcement Is Mostly Symptomatic Treatment

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  • I would agree, despite it shifting towards a more proactive approach: where action is based on behavioral analysis and risk-scoring. It most certainly allows for exploitation of their socio-economic status: conditioning them to settle for underpaid positions for example. Yes, as to control public perception, of a system which typically works against their best interest. Tin foil hats off to you ;)

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    Law Enforcement Is Mostly Symptomatic Treatment

  • Thoughts on privacy focused smart glasses?

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  • Truly "privacy-focused" smart glasses wouldn't have gesture- or voice controls: because it wouldn't come with cameras nor microphones. It wouldn't allow ambiguity surrounding the ability, for these devices to collect personal data without consent: "trust me bro" toggle switches (controlled by the wearer) don't provide reasonable reassurance, to those in the vicinity of such sensors. Which would pretty much leave a heads-up display, which isn't something for me: I like clear separations between the digital and physical world, and this seeks to further blur that line; together with the obvious surveillance implications of course...

  • Amazon, Facebook, ICE, and FBI have access to a private intelligence-sharing network

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  • “Benefiting private economic interests is absolutely one of the leading factors in creating these groups and organizations, and the public is all too happy to carry water for it,”

    This sums up any of these private-public partnerships... Asset protection against primarily petty crime (while "shielding" behind terrorism), and increased camera-coverage at no cost to the taxpayer (to more efficiently treat symptoms, instead of recognizing problem causes: as to maintain the dysfunctional system, which disproportionately benefits a few). Respect to Albury for having a functional moral compass.

  • Forget the AI job apocalypse. AI’s real threat is worker control and surveillance

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  • I hope this discussion will gain some more mainstream traction, because it's the more immediate threat or practice, while not nearly being addressed sufficiently. The only thing I fundamentally disagree with, is the perceived notion, that the lack of transparency is the problem. The fact that these systems are in place is the problem: stop collecting excessive personal data on your workers (which depend on their jobs for an income), and all the problems magically disappear; without ambiguity.

    I'm of the opinion that "private" property, which structurally invites the public (including workers), shouldn't classify as "private" property, and be subject to much stricter regulations on deployment of surveillance systems. It's not ethically justifiable, for people to be forced, to subject themselves to surveillance, simply to be able to make a living and buy food for themselves. Advances in technology have made it so, that surveillance tech is no longer compatible with modern society: supervisors (including law-enforcement) got to greedy, and now it's (hopefully) coming to bite them in the ass.

  • EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram ‘addictive design’ hooking kids

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  • The EU’s executive arm has also developed its own age verification app, which has the “highest privacy standards in the world,” according to Von der Leyen. Member states will soon be able to integrate it into their digital wallets, and it can easily be enforced by online platforms. “No more excuses – the technology for age-verification is available,” the EU chief said.

    So more pro age-verification propaganda, instead of what the headline suggests: nothing concrete in that regard. How about devices with parental control for kids, which only allow access to platforms suitable for the demographic, instead of "age"-gating the entire internet (including for adults)?

  • I was a week away from buying a Pixel Pro 10 for GrapheneOS

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  • That's my point. If your non-Pixel or Googled phone is able to support the new Play Services, you could use that device for the verification, instead of using the GrapheneOS device.

  • Qualcomm’s CEO is working with ‘pretty much all’ major AI players on top-secret devices

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  • More consumer spyglasses and bodycams, which perpetually feed an AI agent; that isn't dystopian, you are...

  • I was a week away from buying a Pixel Pro 10 for GrapheneOS

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  • And you couldn't use your current phone for that? That is in cases where you have no choice left, and where your identity is known regardless. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good: just because this anti-feature may not work, doesn't mean you can't have better standards overall (assuming you're coming from a regular OS).

  • I was a week away from buying a Pixel Pro 10 for GrapheneOS

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  • The "Mobile Verification" option "will initialize the reCAPTCHA app on your device".

  • Remember when they were calling for regime change in China because of mass surveillance? This is the USA today

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  • I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say. It to me reads like you would contribute to someone's resistance, but not for yourself, but for someone else instead? Which in itself is absolutely fine, but I hope you're not under the impression, such technology only affects persons targeted by ICE. That these systems are used for that is simply insult to injury, that is the overall privacy-implications of mass-surveillance.

  • Remember when they were calling for regime change in China because of mass surveillance? This is the USA today

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  • Isn't it ironic how ICE agents wear masks, while scanning everyone else's faces? Also props to Second Thought for not pushing defeatist mind-poison, because that's exactly what they want: for us to feel powerless, and making it seem "resistance is futile".

  • Apple’s AirPods with cameras for AI are apparently close to production

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  • A resolution low enough to be able to identify "ingredients they have in front of them". And they're also planning to launch smart glasses (read: spyglasses) and AI pendants (read: consumer bodycams), as to be able to compete with Meta and OpenAI (with regards to harvesting data without consent?) But I guess you first introduce them into one of your most widely-adopted wearable, where the high probability of people being spied on, isn't as obvious compared to relatively uncommon spyglasses or bodycams.

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    PrivacyTubers driving Tesla cars

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    Discussion:

    How does physical surveillance affect you?

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    Is Flock just a poor US-centric copy of, globally active Genetec?

    www.genetec.com
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    Bread mattress: so my sleepy ass can partially eat it, as I'm in the lengthy process of waking up (possibly improving efficiency)

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    'Fake it till you make it' insinuates fakers stop being fake, once they make it; reality seems to suggest otherwise

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    There should be a 'Political Showerthoughts': so there's a place for such thoughts (Edit: 'Political Showerthoughts' is now live for just that)

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    Update: online again; temporarily offline likely hosting-related

    DeFlock offline?

    deflock.me
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths

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    Would tech-CEOs still use shampoo in the shower, or would popping bubbles make them anxious?