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  • What dystopian surveillance things from your country you can't escape?

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    • You have to hand over a huge amount of personal info about yourself & others to estate agents when renting a property - which they then sell to advertisers & you have no opt-out
    • Similarly, landords can require you to use a proprietary app for rent payments, which of course collects & sells your private data too
    • Burner phones are effectively illegal (telcos are required to collect & retain ID of every phone number they register)
    • Telcos and ISPs are required to collect & retain logs of all your activities for a minimum of two years
    • In some cities police can detain & search you & your property for no reason, and require you to remove any facial coverings
    • It's illegal to refuse to hand over passwords to cops (6 years jail is the max term I think)
    • Police can hack your device, take over your social media, delete or modify your data for an investigation, or survey any digital device if they "think it is likely to be used by someone subject to a warrant" (this particular bill was announced and then rushed through parliament in less than 24 hours to give the public as little time as possible to protest it
    • Some social media sites (including github(wtf)) are now required to age-verify all users beginning next month. Which will obviously lead to mass leaks & breaches of private data which the gov will turn a blind eye to

    This is Australia. I hate it here

  • The GrapheneOS developers are giving me concerns about the future of GrapheneOS

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  • Exactly. The lead dev can come across as frustrated or confrontational on his social media posts but really the amount of noobs criticising Graphene for nonsense reasons or repeatedly bringing up other 'secure' OSes to him that he's already thoroughly debunked again and again like e/OS would drive me insane

  • Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out

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  • This shit should be strictly opt-in. As much as I hate overbearing governments, they should've stepped in and made it illegal to use already collected data for a new purpose without first obtaining permission. What about people who lost access to their accounts or who've died or something?

  • Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: "Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications"

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  • As much as I'd enjoy getting to work with more Macs I don't think workplaces will deploy them at scale for the cost alone

  • Support GrapheneOS in Proton's 2025 Fundraiser

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  • What's the alternative? Linux on phones is basically dead besides a few hobby projects that will never have enough of a following to be a serious contender to the duopoly

  • Cities Panic Over Having to Release Mass Surveillance Recordings

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  • It's a sign of rot in our culture. People feel entitled to know everything about others around them. It's the same mindset whether it's trawling through security camera footage or stalking someone on social media or irl. Technology has accelerated the trend and reinvented voyeurism as a mainstream hobby

  • Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: "Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications"

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  • At this rate we might finally see the year of the Linux desktop. I don't know anyone who likes Windows 11 it's been bad enough to convert even die-hard Windows fans to Linux

  • Support GrapheneOS in Proton's 2025 Fundraiser

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  • In what sense?

  • Real Estate Giant Redfin Exposed Users’ Personal Info on Listing Contact Forms

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  • Real estate in general is a nightmare for privacy, especially for renters. You need to give a wealth of personal info about yourself and any references and it all gets sold, no data breaches needed! And your only opt out is don't rent anywhere. And if you do anything to upset your landlord they'll kick you out and add you to the blacklist so no other estate agent will consider you

  • Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.

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  • This shouldn't surprise anyone. Whether it's companies, gov or cops they'll spin any lie to get what they want

  • Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.

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  • Shoot the cameras down

  • A perfidious trick? EU Council Presidency wants to introduce mandatory #ChatControl through the backdoor

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  • They'll never stop trying until it gets passed

  • Privacy-Related Laws?

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  • I had a skim through the proposal and it sounds pretty solid. I do wonder though if the targeted advertising ban on under 17's would push websites to do age verification like so many other places are doing

  • Q&A: Why Don't People Care About Privacy?

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  • Not stupid, just uninformed. A lot of people are confused by how things like targeted ads work and because of that they just accept it as inevitable. They think "This website knows what I searched for on another website because it's all linked. That's how the internet works" and once you break down how the tracking is actually done, they realise it's not infallible

    It's the same thing as people not knowing how planes stay in the air or what makes a car engine work. Nobody can be an expert on everything. I don't mean to give you a lecture btw, I just think it's counterproductive to dismiss people. But of course there are exceptions and some people just don't want to know

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Privacy-Related Laws?

  • How Many Of You Privacy Pioneers Self Host

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  • How did you get into it? Any resources you'd recommend for a noob who wants to get into setting up servers?

  • Q&A: Why Don't People Care About Privacy?

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  • I was talking to a friend the other day and she mentioned she'd searched for a product online and then started getting ads for it, and asked how often it'd happened to me. She was very surprised when I said never and I explained that I'd been using an ad blocker for the last 15 years. And by the end of our conversation I'd walked her through setting it up on her devices and now she's one step closer to regaining her privacy

    I often find people really aren't happy with their privacy being undermined but they don't realise there are things they can do about it. They'll say things like "well it's happening to everyone else too" as a coping mechanism but it's not something they want. More education is critical

  • Q&A: Why Don't People Care About Privacy?

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  • A lot of people really can't grasp the concept of the status quo changing. Once tools are created and laws are passed they can be used for anything. It's never going to just be the one purpose

  • How Many Of You Privacy Pioneers Self Host

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  • I have a local network for sharing files between my devices but I don't open anything up to remote access. I might change my mind once I'm more skilled at networking but right now I don't trust myself to be able to set up something secure. If I'm on the road I just plan what I'll need and manually sync it across before I go

  • Someone Snuck Into a Cellebrite Microsoft Teams Call and Leaked Phone Unlocking Details

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  • We do not disclose or publicize the specific capabilities of our technology. This practice is central to our security strategy, as revealing such details could provide potential criminals or malicious actors with an unintended advantage

    Lmao fuck them 😂 the grapheneOS forum is exactly where this info belongs so the devs can patch any vulnerabilities. As if companies like cellebrite care if (other) malicious actors get their hands on the exploits. They just don't want the the vulnerabilities to be fixed so they can keep using them

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    Shopping Online or Irl for Privacy

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    'Dumbphones' Are Not Private

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    Kmart Australia Illegally Used Mass-Facial Recognition in Stores

    www.abc.net.au /news/2025-09-18/kmart-facial-recognition-technology-privacy-commissioner/105785802