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I was going to say that for every mail item I get an image by email the day before or that day. My Apple photos search function often shows new images with word
by ok_dad 3y ago
I was going to say that for every mail item I get an image by email the day before or that day. My Apple photos search function often shows new images with words that are the search term in them, for example if I search “apple” I’ll get images with “apple orchard” in a sign. Put those two together and that’s likely what the FBI and etc have access to. Good thing I don’t get much mail, but I guess the FBI knows that I’m getting prescriptions in the mail or maybe they know I donate to certain causes. Privacy is dead in the USA.
- brookst 3y agoI mean 100 years ago if you had gotten a letter from "US communist party", your mail carrier would likely have reported it directly, without any fancy automation. The outside of envelopes has never been particularly private, so I'm not seeing it as a policy change so much as an implementation change to support scale.
- ok_dad 3y agoI don’t believe the argument holds. Just because individuals could see your mail is not equivalent to an automated agent looking at every piece of your mail every day from miles away and creating a profile of you. This is the true slippery slope, that we allow this processing for more and more data. Eventually, every bit of our lives will be processed and profiled at this rate!
- function_seven 3y agoYeah, Quantity has a Quality all its own. Every time I hear an argument for surveillance that boils down to “well they could just stand there and watch you do the $activity,” I lightly lose my mind. CCTV, ALNRs, facial recognition, etc. All of these are technically “just” advanced versions of the old fashioned stake-out. But that makes all the difference in the world.
- ok_dad 3y agoYep, these folks would have us think a nuke is equivalent to a rock since they’re both used to kill people.
- iudqnolq 3y agoIn general, yes. In this specific case a person who lives in your community and looks at the letters going into your mailbox everyday will also have a profile of you. Of course this is less true in denser areas
- kortilla 3y agoA hundred years ago the mail carrier couldn’t produce a list of every person that has ever sent a piece of mail to me.
- KennyBlanken 3y agoEven to the naked eye, the scans often clearly show the contents of the envelope. With even a slight bit of basic image adjustment (we're talking brightness/contrast or levels) you can very clearly read what's inside.