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  • Shopping Online or Irl for Privacy

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  • IRL : I’d argue most security cameras are, AFAIK, on closed circuits. I don’t think they can upload the data somewhere nor keep it for a long time

    It does depend. Most big retailers share CCTV footage with each other through a central company to build a profile on shoplifters (though I wouldn't trust them to use it only for that)

    Most online shop I know do NOT require a mobile phone number.

    This definitely hasn't been my experience though. I can't remember the last time I saw an online retailer that didn't require one, or at least require that the field be filled out. I suppose you could just enter a dummy number but then if there's a problem with the delivery they'll always try to contact you by phone first

  • Shopping Online or Irl for Privacy

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  • I am sick of my contact details and my spending ability being considered fair game. You give them your money and that’s not enough they always want more.

    Agreed. There was a time when only shitty free services did this (if you're not paying, you're the product!) but now every company under the sun wants to sell your data. If I ever buy something digital I always use a fake name/address/phone number and a gift card for payment. But with physical purchases it becomes tougher

  • ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras

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  • Apologies I must've replied to your comment accidentally, I was meaning to post it as a general comment in the thread. It's interesting though, there's a middle ground somewhere but people shouldn't need to take extreme steps to not be recorded everywhere they go. The only thing we can be certain of is that the government and companies aren't going to give us privacy back. We have to be proactive ourselves. I just wish it didn't have to be this way

  • ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras

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  • inb4 the wEll yOu hAvE nO eXpEcTaTiOn oF pRiVaCy iN pUbLiC comments

    I hate this argument that people use. Technology has fundamentally redefined what it means to be observed. Someone casually glancing at you in public is a completely different thing to having your movement tracked, permanently stored, and linked to you wherever you go. People absolutely have a right to expect a degree of privacy even in public settings

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    If it ask for your phone number its not private.

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  • Sure, i’m more paranoid but I don’t believe anyone with a head on their shoulders would say privacy on the internet has ever gotten better.

    I mean things are dire but it's not as if nothing has improved. Even just 10-15 years ago most websites weren't using any encryption (or if they did it was only for login pages). Anything you read or sent could be seen by your ISP or someone snooping on the network. Encrypted messaging basically didn't exist or was very niche. VPNs weren't nearly as widespread either. Go back another decade and Tor Browser didn't yet exist (publicly) so there was no easy way to hide your location or stay anonymous online. Governments and companies have clamped down, yes, but our arsenal of privacy tools has never been bigger.

    The amount of metadata accessible when visiting a website is crazy nowadays. They can track things people never even imagined, like the arc of how your hand moves across the screen with a mouse, the cadence of how you type, and then tie those to profiles with any other details they have managed to scrape

    You can block a lot of this dynamic tracking with NoScript. This will break some websites but it's worth the inconvenience of a messed up page or needing to find an alternate site

  • Discussion: Your recent privacy wins?

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  • Gone back to paying for nearly everything in cash (good for budgeting I find too, can't make impulse purchases if I only have enough money to buy what I came to the shops for). I also got a couple more friends to switch to Signal and make some other privacy-related changes. Slowly getting there

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    If it ask for your phone number its not private.

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  • Depends where you live. I'm in Australia and phone companies aren't allowed to activate a number without tying it to an ID. So criminals just use stolen IDs and regular people don't get privacy. Also YMMV but virtually every service that needs phone verification won't accept VoIP numbers anymore

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  • Tutamail is the only service I know of that still doesn't need anything but I don't expect it to last. Email providers that don't make you verify anything end up being used for spam and then websites just start blocking their domain from being used for account creation

  • UK Government Issues New Order to Access iCloud User Data

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  • It's just a bullshit game of political pride at this point. Anti-privacy pundits criticised the UK gov for "caving to the US" after they dropped the previous order so now they're doubling down on trying to take away their citizens privacy in the name of standing up to the US. How brave. Not that the US gov gives a shit about privacy either

  • Police drone tracks Walmart theft suspect in real time

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  • Cirrus app dev informing the app will stop working on certified android devices in '26/'27

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  • It's also absurdly lacking in features compared to Android/iOS (never mind app support) and the dev team is so small they can barely maintain existing device support. VoLTE is still unsupported in the majority of devices. The OS doesn't even have basic security features like drive encryption

    I like UBPorts a lot but I think the alternative/FOSS smartphone market is too fragmented between it and SailfishOS/PostMarketOS that none of them will emerge with enough adoption to be real competitors to the iOS/Android duopoly. Didn't mean to be overly negative. Just my two cents

  • Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites [& search engines, social media, file sharing, etc, etc]

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  • This is the real problem. As more and more countries push for laws like this I think sites will just adopt blanket age-verification for simplicity's sake instead of having to constantly keep track of which countries/states in countries require it