Anything having to do with money is heavily surveilled

This is pretty much it, though it's worth noting that the ones receiving money tend to get the bulk of the surveillance, it's still fairly easy to send small amounts of money semi-anonymously

Perhaps the creators could be more sensitive to this side of things, by offering more private ways to donate money, like cash or prepaid cards.

This is a good point though it's often down to the payment processors, particularly when dealing with prepaid cards. They deliberately don't make it clear how decisions are made so bad actors can't catch on, but it can mean Person A using a prepaid card has their payment accepted but person B using the exact same type of card has their payment rejected and card locked, with no clear reason why

VPNs are probably the biggest triggers for card-locking. OP, try disabling the VPN (and go to a library or cafe with a secondary device if you can) and try the payment again. And choose one-off payments, most places won't accept prepaid cards for subscriptions

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

• 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

It's the same with ID verification. For your safety you need to start giving random websites your drivers license or passport..

Shoot the cameras down

Don't worry guys its only for specific high-danger events like 'crowded areas', easy enough to avoid

Once the technology is implemented and ubiquitous it would only take a secret government mandate and a gag order for the code to be altered to listen for particular words and phrases and log them

Could this be solved with software that would just print its own random yellow dots to make the code unreadable? At the cost of wasted ink

This might be a stupid question but when using ashai can you run any normal linux software or does it have to be specifically built for arm64/apple silicon?

Exactly. Kmart did a similar trial a while back. This ruling will just open the floodgates for every company to roll out AI-powered facial recognition cameras everywhere

Everyone's being so despondent. Of course it's possible to convince someone to care about privacy. If they're your friends, you'll know them better than we do. What do they value? What do they care about?

In my experience more people care about privacy than you think. But they just think it's hopeless. They're constantly being told "There's no point. Every company already knows everything about you. Give up."

Bullshit. Even if ad companies have a nice tailored set of data on someone's interests, behaviours, routines, etc. the moment that person cuts off the supply, that data starts becoming less relevant, less useful and less valuable every day. Once I explained that to a few people I had a bit more luck getting them to install ad blockers and stop posting so much personal info online

Talk to them in a language they'll understand. If they deal drugs, tell them they're much less likely to get caught using encrypted messaging apps. If they're into true crime, point out how many stalkers were able to track their victims down using what they'd posted on social media

The threat of public wifi isn't as big of a deal as it used to be. Before widespread VPNs and when internet traffic was unencrypted, anything you transmitted could be read by someone else on the network. But nowadays all an eavesdropper would see is what websites you're connecting to (without a VPN) or the VPN if you are using one. Happy to be corrected if I'm mistaken though

Make sure you don't drive either. They scan number plates too

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

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

I still remember the Mozilla Internet Application Suite before the browser part was spun off into Firefox and the email into Thunderbird. Some of their moves have been disappointing but I'll still never use Chrome

The prices aren't 'easing' across the board. Sure a lot of overpriced properties have dropped a bit but houses at the lowest end (i.e. the ones first home buyers are after) are still getting more unaffordable

I'm sure Londoners were consulted on this prior and given the chance to vote on whether they wanted these implemented /s

You think this isn't coming to other devices? Google will presumably add this to Android and apps will follow suit by looking to the OS to verify your age so other forks will probably have to add it. Linux on smartphones is dead in the water so what's the alternative?

See people here want gambling ads banned, but the PM has ties to gambling lobby groupa so the gov won't touch it. But when it comes to laws nobody wants like giving cops more invasive surveillance power the government can suddenly expedite them at record speed. We live in a fake democracy