@Em0nM4stodon
Facial recognition, most people are already a bit weary of it.
Especially with ICE going around and more and more companies using the technology.

Its hard or almost impossible to defend against. Wearing a mask or something puts people on edge and anti recognition glasses are ugly and expensive.
In some jurisdictions it is also illegal to cover more than x% of the face in public.

@Em0nM4stodon I really rely on your wisdom and thoughtfulness for all! You're truly a privacy warrior IMO

@Em0nM4stodon In my opinion, there are two key issues that need to be addressed:
1. Bringing the concept and tools of privacy closer to a broad segment of people, whom we can refer to as "ordinary users" or "simple users," because this segment has its own unique characteristics and nature that differ from those in sensitive positions, such as ministers, journalists, government officials, and others.
2. Clarifying the tools and mechanisms used by major technology companies to violate privacy, =

@Em0nM4stodon Possibly the biggest issue of all is, as others have mentioned many times before, the fact that other people can give away your info no matter what you do.

You can do the privacy equivalent of living in a bunker, and then a family member with a Meta app installed has already given away insane amounts of your private info anyway just by installing it and there's nothing you can do to undo that.

@Em0nM4stodon I think a large issue is clearly communicating to others the extent to which big tech extracts information and how much they profit off of it, and how much privacy can protect them and their loved ones, all while trying to avoid some of the thought-terminating cliches in this realm. It's not an easy feat. I think this would be where I'd start because it could get more people researching and fighting for privacy.

It feels like we are barely even getting people to understand the extent of privacy violations phones and we already have the burgeoning data extraction market that is new cars. This is from Mozilla's privacy review of major car manufacturers, and that's from two years ago.

According to Mozilla research, popular global brands — including BMW, Ford, Toyota, Tesla, Kia, and Subaru — can collect deeply personal data such as sexual activity, immigration status, race, facial expressions, weight, health and genetic information, and where you drive.
https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/

Then there's the rise of municipal surveillance. Even ones that seem more innocuous, like SDOT's Acyclica devices in Seattle. They were meant for analyzing vehicle traffic but had a lot of privacy issues because instead of vehicles they tracked MAC addresses on phones, and had weak hashing. That's just one type of device in one city, and thankfully these have been deprecated, but I'm not sure what replaced them.

The more people that become interested in protecting privacy, the more we can fight surveillance and protect each other.

@Em0nM4stodon VPNs & TOR
the essentials

@Em0nM4stodon Outreach somehow to ppl who don't/won't take their privacy seriously. The difficulty of pursuading ppl to leave privacy-invasive apps.