• bedwyr@piefed.ca
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    20 days ago

    Proton is garbage that accepts blacklists at face value, despite Israel.

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        20 days ago

        Some people on Lemmy are retarded. They think saying things without justifying it means that people should care.

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        20 days ago

        First off, proton accepts blacklists as doctrine, even though israel is in it.

        Second, they removed a bunch of accounts the US demanded they remove, without cause. Proton is GARBAGE! They are the enemy.

      • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
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        20 days ago

        Nothing. There is a large contingent of anti Proton misinformation bots and uninformed laymen on Lemmy.

        If you dig too much into it, it invariably ends up with a bunch of hearsay, very little to no evidence, and misunderstanding of rudimentary functions of the internet and international law.

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              19 days ago

              Given the comments on your own profile, it seems odd that you go looking on other peoples profiles as a way to target them

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                19 days ago

                I don’t have to look in your profile. There’s an icon next to your username warning that your account is brand new. For the purpose of identifying bot accounts

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              19 days ago

              You need to step away from the ai, and try to remember how to think again.

              I have a new account on piefed due to the lemmy instance I was using repeatedly having issues

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              • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
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                19 days ago

                yeah that’s why you made an account minutes after my comment was made and was used to immediately reply to my comment.

                You’re not fooling anyone pal

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                  19 days ago

                  oh for sure, you are terribly important, and we are all after your lucky charms

                  stop eating tin foil.

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      20 days ago

      So what you’re saying is that literally every provider is garbage.

      If proton can’t make the cut, nobody can

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      20 days ago

      Does Proton give its users data and internet history to Israel? GhostVPN for example was founded by Mossad Unit 8200 for spy and report all anti-zionist users to israel. Is Proton the same?!

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        20 days ago

        What I can tell you is that there are several dozen blacklists, and proton takes them at face value, with no appeal option, even though Israel puts their critics on there.

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    20 days ago

    Deleted Reddit after I got asked to do this to Confirm my age.

    I didn’t need ro access any 18+ content on that platform but for me this was the alarm bell that made me actually delete my account.

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      20 days ago

      The problem is that Reddit NSFW is an extremely broad category that doesn’t only include porn. So many posts and memes are tagged with it. Realizing that I’m now seeing a censored, inauthentic version of Reddit made me delete the app.

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        20 days ago

        The whole brutal death metal community is NSFW because if the album covers, and I don’t wanna flash my face to that platform just for the music I enjoy listening

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    20 days ago

    Sadly if you want to travel these days face scans are unavoidable. I still avoid them for commercial services, but yeah. Fly to europe or any major US city and you are going to be made to submit to a face scan to get through security.

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      The last time I went through TSA (earlier this year), I no longer saw the signs saying you could opt-out, but I was still able to opt out.

      The TSA agent got annoyed at me for not leading with that, though. Like… buddy… We exchanged greetings, and then I said no thank you to the face scan. It’s not my fault that you jumped the gun. I’m trying to not be rude about another unnecessary invasion of privacy.

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        Some of them they don’t even ask anymore. When you enter the US at certain ports of entry now they scan everyone as you walk up and they won’t even ask to see your passport because they know who you are and will just wave you through. Because that’s not fucking creepy at all.

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      20 days ago

      Yes, but at the very LEAST, it’s being done by a government controlled entity that’s subject to data security auditing and some sort of regulated process for handling that data.

      These social media services are going to hold on to those scans, sell them for advertising data, and store them on dubiously secured servers.

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        Sadly, that government body pays private companies (palantier, cough cough) on the back end. They combine the data with a gazillion other datasets paid for by taxpayers. Since this is what they call “model training” you can’t unring that bell from that point on. Immutable data on an evil corporation’s dataset, for as long as data can be stored.

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        20 days ago

        Oh for sure I just wouldn’t want anyone having my face scan personally. I’d love to have a law passed that designated biometric data as personal property requiring a warrant or explicit consent to collect.

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        20 days ago

        I would posit that the government is even worse for handling this data. See recent FBI hack and not as recent OPM hack.

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          20 days ago

          For all its problems, a democratically elected government will always be better than some rich guy who wants to rip you off and make as much money as possible.

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        19 days ago

        a government controlled entity that’s subject to data security auditing and some sort of regulated process for handling that data.

        … who do you think the brokers are selling that data to?

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        20 days ago

        Are Americans the only non-EU nationals that have to go through EES biometrics when traveling into EU/Schengen zone? I’m pretty sure that’s not the case.

        Now, I wouldn’t be surprised if many Americans don’t know we’ve been doing this to non-US nationals visiting the US for years via our US-VISIT program.

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          Americans are the only ones who fly to American cities without getting scanned… Because it’s an internal flight.

          I don’t think there’s a corner left in the industrialized world where you can go through passport control at the airport without getting you face scanned. At least as a foreigner.

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      20 days ago

      roblox enforces age verification and separates users into age groups. yet, moderation is in shambles (did i mention ai-assisted?) and separating the kids in one bunch and the teenagers in another basically is just a feast for pedos and groomers

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      19 days ago

      I’ve always obsessively kept my photos off any cloud provider for years only to discover that the entire rest of the family have a treasure trove of fully tagged pictures of me uploaded to every major provider out there. In most cases I think it even ties the tag to my phone/email/birthday entry in their Contacts list.

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        19 days ago

        Always wondered about this, if they receive a GDPR request from you do they have to delete others tagged pictures of you and your contact details? I mean it is your personal data technically.

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          19 days ago

          Yeah, they do. AIUI there’s some nuance about what constitutes “legitimate interest” so it’s possible (probable in fact) they might only delete pictures where you’re the main subject but not e.g. group photos from events

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    20 days ago

    I had to scan my face to access the $20k of I-bonds I already had with the Treasury.