All of this was done in close collaboration with the local police, despite these uses violating a 2022 ordinance that placed narrow limits on the use of facial recognition

If companies and law enforcement aren’t going to follow laws then why should citizens? A bit of coordinated vandalism would combat this shit

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I take some evasive measures if I know someone has a camera but generally it’s something I try not to think about. Our culture encourages privacy invasion and most people are happy to give up their own (or others’) if they’re told to. You’ve just gotta assume every step you take outside your house is being recorded

One of the very few things I liked about covid was (somewhat) normalising face coverings. But now that’s mostly gone

Better than SMS I suppose but still pointless for my needs. No encryption = no usage from me

What are you wanting to use it for? I use prepaid cards for most shopping online and just enter fake details if it’s a digital purchase. But obviously that only works for buying things, not being paid

This is pretty much every government’s response to a big sensitive data leak. Draft laws requiring companies to collect even more of it to be stolen

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

It was also the brainchild of an unelected American with CIA ties who for some reason gets to decide what we can and can’t see on the internet under the guide of eSafety

Membrane because I’m poor

I get where you’re coming from but it was all the result of user requests. People were asking Proton to make more services and apps for years

Not that I was planning to visit the US anyway but I guess this seals it

They’ll probably treat having no social media as suspicious even if it’s true and deny you entry

I just want LibreOffice not to be a sluggish bugfest on macOS

And I’m sure if citizens do anything to remove malware on their devices they’ll be criminally charged too 🤡

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

• 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

Exactly. The lead dev can come across as frustrated or confrontational on his social media posts but really the amount of noobs criticising Graphene for nonsense reasons or repeatedly bringing up other ‘secure’ OSes to him that he’s already thoroughly debunked again and again like e/OS would drive me insane

This shit should be strictly opt-in. As much as I hate overbearing governments, they should’ve stepped in and made it illegal to use already collected data for a new purpose without first obtaining permission. What about people who lost access to their accounts or who’ve died or something?

As much as I’d enjoy getting to work with more Macs I don’t think workplaces will deploy them at scale for the cost alone