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Em :official_verified:
Em :official_verified:
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 12 hours ago

Each time a new privacy-invasive
feature like facial scanning is implemented, if people in majority comply and accept to use it, it will soon become normality, and other options will be marginalized or even removed entirely.

If each time a new privacy-invasive
feature is implemented people opted to refuse it, it would soon be discontinued.

Each individual opposition to privacy-invasive features matters.

It is an act of self-protection but,
perhaps even more importantly,
it is also an act of protest.

A protest against the normalization of mass surveillance and the loss of privacy rights.

The fact that there are other cameras around doesn't mean that more cameras or additional scanning is not making things even worse.

If we do not refuse,
if we do not fight for our privacy rights,
we will lose them all.

#Privacy #MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #FacialRecognition #HumanRights #DigitalRights

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rayocentric
rayocentric
@rayocentric@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@Em0nM4stodon
Years ago, when websites and corporations said, "We track you to give you personalized ads..." I was like "You lost me at the tracking part."

Never considered using biometrics, facial scanning, retina scanning or anything of the like on any device.

These things are not supposed to know me. They're supposed to do a thing when I'm using them and stop doing things until I need to use them again.

All data will get exploited in the Information Age.

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Adam MacLeod
Adam MacLeod
@adam@fedi.adamm.cc replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@Em0nM4stodon Absolutely spot on with this one. And in regards to the Discord news, which I'm imagining prompted this excellent post, among many other instances of this stuff going on, they can treat me like a teen, and I will treat them with the door.

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IbRaen
IbRaen
@IbRaen@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@Em0nM4stodon It's bleak. I wish there would be a way to decentralize the internet again.

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Ehay2k
Ehay2k
@Ehay2k@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

@Em0nM4stodon

💯!!!

I recently tried to check in for an international flight online. It asked for a picture of my passport, with a disclaimer [paraphrasing] that my passport info would be sent to a third party for processing.

That's a hard pass for me. I'd rather wait in line at the airport then have some third party I don't know about have access to my passport info

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Amgine
Amgine
@Amgine@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

@Em0nM4stodon

Thus my refusal to ever use facial id on my mobile.

8 months since the latest iteration, it is still highlighting 'Finish Setting Up Your iPhone'. It sure must be valuable for them.

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Bowreality 🇨🇦
Bowreality 🇨🇦
@Bowreality@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 11 hours ago

@Em0nM4stodon Too many people live by “I don’t lose sleep over things like that” and FOMO

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Bill Halcyon
Bill Halcyon
@bill_halcyon1@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 11 hours ago

@Em0nM4stodon

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Andreas Albrecht
Andreas Albrecht
@Datterich@darmstadt.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 12 hours ago

@Em0nM4stodon

> "It is an act of self-protection but,
perhaps even more importantly,
it is also an act of protest."

It is also our democratic duty to protect those who can't fight for themselves, who are in a minority and as such in an inferior position to defend themselves against attacks aiming at their human rights or personal privacy.

It's a duty of the majority to protect minorities - because, in a democracy, majorities change...

@catsalad

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Em :official_verified:
Em :official_verified:
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 49 minutes ago

@Datterich 1000

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Dimitris Nakos, MSc
Dimitris Nakos, MSc
@nakdim@mathstodon.xyz replied  ·  activity timestamp 12 hours ago

@Em0nM4stodon How do we protest? In this case it's Discord turn to an arse... How do we make a stand against it? Stop using it is the bet option ofc, but I don't expect that most people will randomly drop away since so far they already share phone numbers without too much hassle and even if given the option for "oldschool" forums they will still choose discord... 😐 What are the alternatives? 😞

I'm not ranting. I'm genuinely asking!

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