What dystopian surveillance things from your country you can't escape?
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from PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml to privacy@lemmy.ml on 27 Nov 01:17
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Or have to go through great lengths to escape.
In my country you can’t buy any medicine without showing your ID… I mean, you technically can, but if you are registered they “give” like an 80% discount, so everyone thinks it’s a great deal, not realizing that’s the normal price, they are just pretending you can still go and buy a simple cold medicine without sharing your ID, phone, email, and street address with the drug store and whoever they decide to sell that information to, you just have to pay absurdly more. Yeah, you can lie about all the other information, but not really about your ID number. Probably soon, to get the “discount”, you are going to have to verify your email or phone number as well.
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Our president, House leader, Senate leader, head of FBI are all owned by a foreign government, and the ones who aren’t, are blackmailed, or paid off to support them at all costs, even if it’s committing a genocide. There’s no way to escape it, we are a nation under blackmail.
Sorry, *your* president, not mine. I don’t live in the US.
(If you’re ashamed to explicitly point out your country, then… I think you have to deal with that anyway. I don’t know if fighting against the bad actors in your country is a feasible strategy; it’s too easy to give poor advice from far away, imagining yourself an expert where in reality you’re not, so I’m not recommending anything.)
Doesn’t matter he seems to have lots of power over the other countries. As everyone wants access to their money.
nobody wants their money, but we do want to be left alone by the empire.
This is Australia. I hate it here
being punished for not giving your phone password to police sounds insane
It’s the same in France at least
Over the ditch here, New Zealand isn’t much better and like many countries only getting worse. The insane amount of personal information that essential companies (e.g. electricity, property managers, etc) is getting out of control and our digital privacy laws are still in the dark ages.
They want it all the data so they can sell well taking all your money. It’s insane capitalism is broken and we the people should be revolting instead of just accepting it. If people only knew how much data they had on us.
I’ve effectively excised fb from my life and i’m becomming kinda proud since so many people still struggle with that one.
Tbh, me too, but funny enough I’ve tried to setup fb account just for fb marketplace but I keep getting banned because they want my DL license (lol nah bitch)
Which company if I may ask? Name and schame… Honestly I would leave such a invasive company. It is not worth it.
Not going to say the company, but every single company I’ve worked on does this to their remote workers, you just don’t know about it.
Understandable you dont name it. I never hat a company be like this how ever.
You can escape the big tech tracking by installing uBlock Origin in your browser, and if you use their services, disabling personalised ads and search/activity history in their accounts.
Cloudflare and AWS say “Hi” 👋
UBO is a very good tech that I strongly recommend too though. Just gotta be aware of its limits.
Cloudflare just checks for bot activity and AWS is just a hosting provider. They don’t use data for ads or sell it to anyone.
Hahaha I got a sandbox to sell you in the Sahara. Everyone is selling data or ads they are not leaving money on the table.
The original claim was about tracking (“escape the big tech tracking”), so here AWS and Cloudflare are definitely relevant. The content, including input, also flows through them I think? It’s specifically unencrypted if I get it right.
Let them build a profile on me I never see their ads anyway. I can minimize but not escape it if I want to partake in modern society.
it’s so dystopian when I travel to countries where cashless vendors are a thing. Recently Germany took me by surprise, they have been a bastion of cash for a long time, and during my last trip there were many restaurants with “no cash accepted” signs. Just like in the UK or Norway where privacy is already a lost cause
I wonder if its illegal to put some clear coating on license plates to prevent AI cameras from scanning it?
Pretty much. Iirc there are a handful of places in the US that allow license plate covers but it’s usually illegal to obscure it for any reason when driving on public roads
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Japan just hooked up the national health insurance to the national ID.
Hmm… so what does it change? Before you could have health insurance without using your ID?
Yes the “my number card” (national ID) was mostly a volunteer thing but now that it’s needed for health insurance it’s required of everyone
That’s quite interesting, did you have other sort of compulsory ID before the national one? Like, what did you use to register to stuff, like enrolling in school or college, opening a bank account or getting a retirement plan, etc.
In my country we have both the state and national ID. I guess very long ago you could use your state ID to register to stuff, but as they pushed for more standardization everything started to require your national ID instead, and your state ID card was more a proof that you are who you claim to be (like, you have to collect a parcel somewhere and show it belongs to you, or if you are stopped by the police you can show your state ID)… but usually people just use the driver’s license because it has both ID numbers and your picture, so it’s a valid document for everything.
For a lot of people for a long time your insurance card (that didn’t have a photo) was the only “identification” you had. Otherwise you had to bring your school ID, work ID etc.
Most people don’t have drivers licenses cause they take the train. When you sign up for banks etc you usually have to get a bunch of official documentation from the local ward office with your information.
Proof of identity in Japan has always been a bit of a hazy problem. You sign most documents still with a family stamp, so the idea of what legally is defined as identifying is kind of vague.
Most local offices aren’t networked up, so when you move you have to register with your local ward office and the japanese beauricratic army goes and gets the previous ward office to fax over your info.
“My Number” is the japanese governments attempt to get all that stuff wired together in one database.
You can’t escape when you currently appears life in one of the millons cams anywhere and even with this life in YouTube, additional to the surveillance of big corporations, banks and the own ISP. Privacy nowadays is relative, you can only patch the biggest holes. 100% privacy is stay at home and reading a book with the smartphone turned off.
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=live+webcams…
www.earthcam.com
www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam.html
worldcams.tv
etc… adding millons more used by police and govs with face recognition soft.
In my country it’s just KYC, mostly services, banks and government. The rest is pretty private. Sure, there are cameras all over the city, government and private, but nothing like the Flock bullshit in the US. The cameras here are centralized in the 911 HQ, and no government institutions or police have acres to private cameras.
If Europe doesn’t fight back strong enough, Chat Control will be one such thing. All your messages being scanned by a “black box” system. Hopes are on the European Parliament and societal pressure to cancel this now. patrick-breyer.de/…/reality-check-eu-council-chat…
Fight back they’re pushing for it. Keeps getting introduced and we’ll go through at some point. Unless by Europe you mean individual people but in that case it is already lost.
Flock ai cameras
Where I’m from, France, it’s not so bad I think. We have pretty strong privacy laws I feel. But now I’m in the US so yeah. I’m in cybersecurity so I see the difference with what employers are allowed to do. Also Flock cameras popping up everywhere. There are a couple near me that make me lose Android Auto’s wifi everytime I drive by them so I’m thinking it’s intercepting stuff.
There’s an intersection like that near me (android auto always drops). I haven’t figured out what’s causing it though. Haven’t spotted a Flock camera there. There’s some down the road, but none that I’ve noticed at the intersection. There are what look like the normal traffic cams there. I too wonder if it’s something that’s purposely forcing disconnections so devices start broadcasting SSIDs/MAC info or something like that.
I mean forcing a reconnect to capture the handshake is exactly how I used to speed up WIFI cracking back in college. You would need that to break in a car’s wifi in the time it’s at a red light.
I’m confused… There’s an Android Auto WiFi that’s available while you’re driving around?
The way Android Auto connects, your phone connects to bluetooth on the car, then they set up their own little WIFI between them. That’s why it doesn’t work on VPNs that don’t allow split tunneling.
In my country it’s becoming ever more common that when I visit someone and that person lives in an apartment, the building has a doorman/security and they ask for my id.
Also all supermarkets want to know your id number, but there at least I can say “no thanks”.
ID verification for phone numbers.
ALMOST every bank now forces you to have a phone application to authorize payments and each banks implements it in their own way, no standardized way like TOTP (RFC 6238) or Passkeys (WebAuthn), and sometimes those apps force you to use a verified phone (no custom ROM basically) because of security. So if you have no battery (or phone number, because some banks still send you codes trough SMS), you can’t authorize transactions.
Most banks use 3rd party, non local AI companies to verify your identify with your face.
Chile :3c
License plate readers
Chat control. Whatever these fuckos who are pushing for this in Brussels are smoking, this must stop.
ID verification and travel logging on public transport. it started out as an optional “convenience”. soon it became the only possibility other than buying an expensive ticket every time you board
ID verification and travel logging on public transport. it started out as an optional “convenience”. soon it became the only possibility other than buying an expensive ticket every time you board