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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?

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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...

  • 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?

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Isn't that the same in the real world with teenagers, you can't be watching them 24/7?

  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    How is it OK that so many women in public life are threatened on a daily basis with rape and death threats, threats to their children, photo's taken outside thier houses? Obviously this happens to men in public life, but not I think to the extent that it does to women. Do we want to go back to times where it's only men who are MP's, or in senior position in public life, because women dont' feel safe enough to be a part of the public life of this country?

    Things were no different when we were growing up but there was just much less publicity about it. My uncle was a policeman in the west coast of scotland and when we were visiting I would always try to eavesdrop on my fathers conversations with him as he would talk about how they visited some suspected pedo and the police beat the snot out of him or how some suspected murderer was "dissapeared" and they were doing the community a service.

    Abuse of all sorts seemed much more common too, not just discrimination but SA, DA and child abuse. People were conditioned to look the other way because we "don't talk about that stuff".

    At least now it is being exposed and there is much more proof to go after the perpetrators using the legal system.

    So on balance it is much better now in spite of what the scaremongering tabloids would have us believe.

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    How is it OK that so many women in public life are threatened on a daily basis with rape and death threats, threats to their children, photo's taken outside thier houses? Obviously this happens to men in public life, but not I think to the extent that it does to women. Do we want to go back to times where it's only men who are MP's, or in senior position in public life, because women dont' feel safe enough to be a part of the public life of this country?

    Things were no different when we were growing up but there was just much less publicity about it. My uncle was a policeman in the west coast of scotland and when we were visiting I would always try to eavesdrop on my fathers conversations with him as he would talk about how they visited some suspected pedo and the police beat the snot out of him or how some suspected murderer was "dissapeared" and they were doing the community a service.

    Abuse of all sorts seemed much more common too, not just discrimination but SA, DA and child abuse. People were conditioned to look the other way because we "don't talk about that stuff".

    At least now it is being exposed and there is much more proof to go after the perpetrators using the legal system.

    So on balance it is much better now in spite of what the scaremongering tabloids would have us believe.

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