Video surveillance in use @kakure@mastodon.online

I find it maddening how all sorts of systems send us emails with private things in them. Mostly about money. Utility bills, paycheck deposits, PayPal, credit card activity, receipts. And then there are the pseudo-2FA account verifications and password resets. And I couldn't turn all these things off no matter how I try.

Having a secure email service doesn't completely help, since I can't guarantee they aren't transmitted in plaintext at some point.

(Even worse are money things sent to me by SMS. I have two bills that do that.)

The "CW" icon on Mastodon stands for "Content Warning". The contents of the post is hidden, and you have to click on the warning to see the contents.

It was originally introduced so people could hide potentially upsetting topics, but it can be used for any purpose.

Many people hide political posts with a "Pol" content warning, while others use CWs to hide spoilers on posts about films.

Some use CWs to tell a joke in the warning, with the punchline revealed in the contents.

#MastoTips

Use a common #Smartphone?

How about #Apps?

Fact: Many Apps sell personal data including text messages, #GPS (justifying higher #insurance rates, even plane tickets/pricing).

App #data is 'weaponized' against their users for profit.

Web > Apps for smartphone #privacy

#Politics #Android #iPhone #encryption

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkbxp8/grindr-location-data-priest-weaponization-app

"This de-anonymization industry uses various terms... including "identity resolution" and "identity graph." Other companies claiming to offer a similar service... FullContact, which says it has 223 billion data points for the U.S., as well as profiles on over 275 million adults in the U.S."

""whole-person Identity Graph provides personal/professional attributes, as well as online/offline identifiers... adding that can include names, addresses, social IDs, and MAIDs."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epnmvz/industry-unmasks-at-scale-maid-to-pii

It's always a good time to remind that trading off your #Privacy or #Freedom for #Security is the fastest way to never getting them back.

In times of extreme fear or worrying, beware!

Police & Biometric surveillance threaten the very right to protest, chilling free speech/open expression. Leaving a space where the largest corporations (almost always) set the rules.

#HumanRights #Protest #Biometrics #Surveillance #Police #LawEnforcement

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202107/police-surveillance-biometric-data-collection-threatening-right-to-protest

In January 2019 we filed complaints against eight streaming services for not responding properly to a simple access request. Exactly two and a half years later, the lack of GDPR compliance remains apparent: merely one of the eight complaints has been resolved. What happened to quick cross-border enforcement of the GDPR?
More here: https://noyb.eu/en/years-and-still-no-decision-streaming-complaints

"Big tech uses mobiles to map your emotions" Romain Robert, our Program Director, weighed in on the subject: https://www.futureintelligence.co.uk/2021/06/09/big-tech-data-scraping-to-discover-our-emotions/

Bits of Freedom:
EIJI reports on unlawful biometric surveillance in the Netherlands' public spaces.

Article (Dutch):
https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2021/07/07/biometrische-surveillance-in-nederland-het-mag-niet-maar-gebeurt-toch/

Report (English):
https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/RISE_REPORT.pdf

Troubling: #Chatcontrol #EU #Parliament approves #MassSurveillance online conversations.

Outside #Privacy/#HumanRights, a main issue here being many things *will* be taken *completely* out of context from a joke to semantic differences. #AI

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https://european-pirateparty.eu/parliament-approves-chatcontrol/