"The large tech companies point to our willing use of their services as proof that people don’t really care about their privacy. But this is like arguing that inmates are happy to be in jail because they use the prison library. Confronted with the reality of a monitored world, people make the rational decision to make the best of it.

That is not consent."

#MaciejCegłowski, 2019

https://idlewords.com/2019/06/the_new_wilderness.htm

#privacy#AmbientPrivacy

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More cracks showing in the NatACT First coalition. With National proposing to ban social media platforms from allowing under-16s to use them, and the ACT leader calling it;

"Simple, neat and wrong"

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/560184/seymour-calls-for-inquiry-into-national-s-proposal-to-ban-social-media-for-under-16s

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, and Seymour is right about this. Such a ban would require reliably identifying everyone who tries to access online services, which is technically difficult, and requires systemic privacy violation;

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/560184/seymour-calls-for-inquiry-into-national-s-proposal-to-ban-social-media-for-under-16s

#privacy

"The documentation suggests that [ZuckerBorg and SandBorg] were willing to run FaceBook in China as a government surveillance network. That they would give the Chinese government access to user's data."

#AnnaRawhitiConnell, 2025

https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/01-04-2025/the-fold-careless-people-adolescence-and-where-meta-is-at

Why wouldn't they? As many of us always suspected and Edward Snowdon's leaks confirmed, that's exactly what they do for the US government.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-5/edward-snowden-discloses-u-s-government-operations

#privacy #surveillance#MassSurveillance#SocialMedia#FaceBook#China#USA

@sbb @raucao @prosodyim

Unfortunately, public wifi and other badly configured #firewalls killed the concept of TCP ports. There is only one port left, that's 443 for everything.

Some people argue, it is a blessing for #privacy, because all our criminal #Jabber usage is hidden now.