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Online Privacy Opinions and Thoughts

wt500

Hi All

Not sure how much people are aware but there has been an increasing amount of legislation either passed or being drafted that aims to make privacy less easy and giving more power to government to introduce surveillance measures.

For example in the EU there is the Chat Control bill which originally wanted to force mandatory scanning of all your private communications (see link): https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

There's also the age verification stuff which although I dislike it, I would be okay if ZKP based ID was allowed (zero-knowledge proofs), it basically allows one person to verify something is true without revealing the underling data. However at the moment this is not the case and its just AI face scans and government ID uploads which has already resulted in a breach (see link): https://discord.com/press-releases/update-on-security-incident-involving-third-party-customer-service

Some states in America also force age verification for downloading any smartphone app and I mean ANY APP.

Whats everyone's thoughts?

Parents

  • social media and various other apps have been hijacking people's brains for a while now 

    I'd like governments to put more legislation into what is being allowed to be shared and promoted (hehe as long as politically their social democratic and green as that's my personal bias...)

    As for the other side of that in respect of monitoring and policing society... once upon a time local police knew who was dangerous in the neighbourhood generally and could physically keep an eye on them,  These days the electronic neighbourhood is world-wide and I think there is a need for protection...

    The genie is out of the bottle...

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  • social media and various other apps have been hijacking people's brains for a while now 

    I'd like governments to put more legislation into what is being allowed to be shared and promoted (hehe as long as politically their social democratic and green as that's my personal bias...)

    As for the other side of that in respect of monitoring and policing society... once upon a time local police knew who was dangerous in the neighbourhood generally and could physically keep an eye on them,  These days the electronic neighbourhood is world-wide and I think there is a need for protection...

    The genie is out of the bottle...

Children
  • in reply to Phased

    These big companies move in where ever there is new territory for them to profit from but take no responsibily for the content they channel. They would argue they are not the gatekeepers. Its a gap for someone else to sell you more security products. Privacy will become VERY expensive.

    When you swim in the ocean around the UK, you think that the risk of bumping into a shark is low, in reality though its all one ocean really and the climate is changing all the time, this is kind of how I view the internet. 

  • in reply to Phased

    I don't have a problem with age verification there's stuff that young minds should not be exposed too, nor should those who innocently stumble across something.

    Don't many social media sites go through your address book on your phone or pooter to make connections between you and others?