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All these years (decades?) we've been warning about the dangers of wholesale surveillance, collecting and never erasing tracking, metadata, anything the governm
by java-man 2y ago
All these years (decades?) we've been warning about the dangers of wholesale surveillance, collecting and never erasing tracking, metadata, anything the government of private sector can get the hands on.
The end result? The population have spoken. They don't care. It might be too late already, or maybe we have another few years left, I don't know. Everyone aware of the XX century history, I think, sees the rise of the fa^H^H danger as inevitability. It happened after the WWI, it happened after the breakup of the Soviet Union, and the result is the same.
We have interesting times ahead of us. This time it will be backed by a fully functional surveillance apparatus capable of finding everything about a _suspicious_ citizens in seconds.
We've been warned and we failed to act.
- fsflover 2y ago> The population have spoken. They don't care. What are the options? Protesting? Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20207348 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20207348
- nunobrito 2y agoProtest is good, supporting alternatives is better. Two weeks ago we hosted in Coimbra the first portuguese event dedicated to NOSTR, only 15 people showed up but they travelled north/south of the country to be there. More people or less people it does not matter, we will raise attention that exist options for using the networks without this constant tracking. You can also do something too.
- fsflover 2y agoHow about regulations? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23090393 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23090393
- nunobrito 2y agoIf you dive deeper into EU regulations you will soon find they have near-zero interest in user privacy. They are forced by voters to put a show, the practical result is what you see. We shouldn't wait for a government to apply technological measures for our privacy, we should instead be an active part in making sure they exist and become popular.
- fsflover 2y ago> If you dive deeper into EU regulations you will soon find they have near-zero interest in user privacy. I dived into it and didn't see what you suggested. Even Google added "reject all cookies" in EU recently. > we should instead be an active part in making sure they exist and become popular. Why not both? Sent from my Librem 5.
- nunobrito 2y ago> I dived into it and didn't see what you suggested. Even Google added "reject all cookies" in EU recently. Was a silly measure that is Too litle, too slow and too late. A proper measure could have been to request web browsers to define preferred user settings and to use that instead. Cookies are stored/retrieved from web browsers. > Why not both? Sure, go ahead. Maybe some day, something changes.
- jmclnx 2y agoOptions ? Do not use Smart Phones, maybe a Burner Phone would be ok
- ranger_danger 2y agoyou don't need a smart phone to have your location tracked
- prmoustache 2y agoUsing a web browser with location disabled instead of smartphone apps.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoMost websites add incredible friction if you do not use the app. I am willing to bear it, but I can understand why many do not.
- prmoustache 2y agowhich brings us back to point 1: people don't care or much less than practicality.
- fsflover 2y agoThis is not true. People just don't know what to do about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20207348 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20207348