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user-inactivated  ·  3869 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: All cameras are police cameras

    This permission to access the data was granted to the Police on the sole condition that they only used it when National Security was under threat. But since the data was now in their possession, the Police reclassified it as “Crime” data and now use it for general policing matters, despite the wording of the original permission. As this data is not considered to be “personal data” within the definition of the law, the Police are under no obligation to destroy it, and may retain their ongoing record of all vehicle movements within the city for as long as they desire.

Awesome. Civilization is broken when a suburban cube-farmer can look at the hill-billy/hill folk stratagems for survival and think, "privacy and a jug to blow into? sounds not to bad."





mk  ·  3869 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    The Sixth Wall will be built from the things you wear on your body and arrange on the shelves in your bedroom. Nest, QOL, Hue. Automatic. Smart TVs. HAPIfork. Vessyl. Autographer. Memeto. Glass. Dropcam. Jawbone. Fuel. Withings. Fitbit. Healthkit.

This is the scary truth. In a decade it will be very difficult to go off the grid. Give it another, and it might be illegal. If their system cannot recognize you, you will be detained. Why should an innocent person avoid monitoring?

Everyone should have a protonmail account.

veen  ·  3869 days ago  ·  link  ·  

still waiting for that invite...

BrainBurner  ·  3868 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What is a protonmail account, and why should I have one?

veen  ·  3868 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The short version:

- end-to-end encryption

- free

- anonymous, only you can read your email

- it is based in Switzerland, which has excellent privacy laws

- compatible with regular email through password locks