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by aboringusername 4y ago
Although it probably sucks for the individuals at the receiving end of the scales of justice I believe this is an important public education campaign which will hopefully raise awareness of the scale and extent of data collection. There see
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by aboringusername 4y ago
I've often joked as there are new "safety" systems like GPS tracking/speed sign recognition they could easily track where you've been, and if you have been speeding, automatically deduct money from your bank account
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by aboringusername 4y ago
The source article [1] claims that " the largest messaging services (such as Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger or iMessage) will have to open up and interoperate with smaller messaging platforms" I am very intrigued to see how the vari
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by aboringusername 4y ago
I really don't think this captures the scope of the problem. Here's an example: 1: Load NBC.com (or any other regular media site) in a "naked" web browser (just a plain browser, no ad blocking, noscript etc) 2: Open dev
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by aboringusername 4y ago
Yes, absolutely. I often think about whether we should just go to the natural logical conclusion. Using GPS and speed data to automatically fine you if you speed and deduct from your linked bank account - you can contest this but you must p
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by aboringusername 4y ago
If you're in the EU you have a right not to be subjected to automated decision making. You can visit this URL [1] and get in touch with their DPO - they must conduct a human review and can look at all of the data and either reinstate y
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by aboringusername 5y ago
I really hope this is not mandatory as the article is suggesting. Does MS really think every device on earth has an active internet connection and force people to consent to data collection? I wonder if the OS will refuse to setup if you ge
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Windows 11 Pro to require internet connection and Microsoft Account
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by aboringusername 5y ago
Most people accept that their houses are accessible via a single physical key that - in reality - is mostly security theater as 10 minutes of lock picking lawyer will yeild favourable results depending on your motivation. And 2FA does not r
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by aboringusername 5y ago
This is genuinely concerning to me. The www and various systems, such as email, should be agnostic to whomever I am providing my details to. If I purchase a new SIM I expect a number where I can make outbound calls, receive inbound calls an
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by aboringusername 5y ago
Isn't this the acceptable nature of participating in a society? Covid was an opportunity to force people online - creating new accounts, accepting new privacy policies, getting used to Zoom calls and having more of your data legally re
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by aboringusername 5y ago
I would suspect in such cases they would have a 'case file' on such an individual. Perhaps it ought to be to the extent it would pass any reasonable jury in a court of law - I would be very surprised if this system isn't mere
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by aboringusername 5y ago
Can you source the claims of databases being obtained illegally? An interesting conversation of "consent" comes to mind - I think the issue is if somebody's face appears in a news article is it allowed to then download that s
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by aboringusername 5y ago
There's nothing really stopping anyone making such a database considering as I understand they just scraped faces from the public internet. There's no proof they were colluding with anyone. For example, you could scrape and downlo
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by aboringusername 5y ago
At the end of the day, our computers and smartphones are just data input/output machines. Humans generate petabytes of data yearly, and that data is going to be stored, processed and used, forever. The invent of HDDs, fibre internet an
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by aboringusername 5y ago
Owning a device that can connect to the internet doesn't mean it can at that moment . We need to stop assuming humans can connect to an endpoint over a network 24/7 365. There are times when you may not be able to, for all sort
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by aboringusername 5y ago
Can anyone discuss the privacy implications here please? I assume to use eSim you'll be required to have a working internet connection - there are still many dark spots in the world. What data does eSim need? Can anyone outline the dat
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by aboringusername 5y ago
I know this isn't going to be a popular suggestion but can we please ban these type of threads from HN? I'm not sure if that's a 'done' thing around here, but they are multiplying in number and really, HN isn't
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by aboringusername 5y ago
Wouldn't this be an actual ideal use case for facial recognition? Apple wanted to do CSAM before upload, Twitter could do consent-checking before posting. Users might consider saying "I do not want my images being public" and
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by aboringusername 5y ago
It deeply saddens me that for all of the greatness humanity is capable of we're still dealing with pop-ups and "cookies" when the solution is obvious and should have been in place years ago (and the current situation has ruin
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by aboringusername 5y ago
It depends what you mean by "security first". If you're a person of interest and you're carrying around a personal spy with actual data on it and a hardware connected microphone, camera, GPS, sensors etc, which sends God
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by aboringusername 5y ago
To me it is a reminder that all cornerstones of society are entangled in this battle for rights and freedoms, others include Sideloading on iOS, alternative app stores etc Farmers getting access to diagnostics for their tractors Not having
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by aboringusername 5y ago
To be honest, having read the text in the image and mindslights post I am reminded that for a "permission" system on Android (and iOS) it's basically an "all or nothing" approach. If I agree to location, I should be
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by aboringusername 5y ago
I agree. I don't understand why I can't say "okay, have fun with directory /nakedmolerats" and see what they do with it. The fact an app can essentially coerce you into accepting permissions "for your safety&qu
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by aboringusername 5y ago
The issue with Android is it's extremely restrictive from a firewall perspective, I guess exactly as designed. I cannot dictate what apps chat over the internet or to what IP's (say, a setting to only allow EU-only addresses). Of
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by aboringusername 5y ago
> immediately it told me that Facebook attempted internet access. I am not sure how that information is useful to you or anyone else, not trying to be snarky, but an internet app wanting internet access...is the expected behavior? Most a
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by aboringusername 5y ago
I was wondering if you could expand on your comment because I am confused. How is seeing what IP addresses an app communicates with a violation of GDPR? If I can't see the content of the data it's sending but just where it&#x2
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by aboringusername 5y ago
Aside from all the moral and ethical questions this raises from the usage of faceless AI, really this happens time and again, I suspect so Google can employ less human reviewers and so they can claim "not our fault". I think I&#x2
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by aboringusername 5y ago
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by aboringusername 5y ago
Sorry but this is why we need regulation and fast. We need by default other app stores on all operating systems (similar to search engines Google were forced to advertise) Google should have to compete on merit and if somebody doesn't

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