Yah, there might be something to that. For protection against style + vocab matching.

It sucks though. I recently read where the more people use LLM assisters when they write, the more the whole virtual commons grows bland. It feeds back upon itself.

Sigh. I just want a world where we can have nice things. And assholes don’t try to ruin the nice things we could have.

new circle of Hell for backers of mass surveillance

A perpetual itch between the thumb toe and the next one, and they must wear shoes 18 hours each day so they can’t reach the itch.

Well, sure, but it isn’t JUST an American thing, even today. Like Buelldozer said, it’s starting all over the globe. Some further than others ofc.

Some are starting to ban VPNs to prevent people from bypassing the ID laws. Not sure where it stands rn but some UK MEPs or w/e they’re called in the UK were pushing for that.

Agree. Another benefit is, it’s much less productive to use info-warfare bots against a small forum of let’s say 500 users, than against a global site with 1B users.

Agree, hard indeed. Any solution will have problems. False positives. False negatves. Violating privacy.

So far, maybe Lemmy flew under the radar and it’s a nice enough place. But I don’t see how that can continue longterm.

It is sad to me. Anything nice eventually gets ruined.

Friends and family will be so excited for you and optimistically update your address in there phone book.

Oh yes! I have experienced this already! They put it in their contacts and then every sketch weather app and recipe app scrapes it. My friends are kind and well meaning, but hey have no idea how the information economy works. They do not understand how much data they are giving away about themselves but abotu me too!

have an attorney list his name for all utilities

That is what Michel Bazzel talks about too in his book, but it seems like this is difficult to find someone to do that. And it makes other kinds of things difficult too, if the residence is not tied to your name. I have had cases where I had to supply a “utility bill” tying my real name to my residence, in order to get some other kind of service I needed, or part of KYC.

I fear you are right about the difficulty of this. I don’t think it is exactly impossible. But very difficult, for sure!

Thank you for this. I am glad to hear you had success!

I do most of those, but not so far number 4.

I don’t know about utilities though. I believe that my current power company sells their customer lists, because I get junk mail at a misspelling of my name on file with them.

Did you have any trouble with moving companies? I didn’t move since the “surveillance economy”. It is hard for me to imagine moving companies wouldn’t capitalize on selling your new address where they had to deliver.

I have also heard that it is better not to file a change of address form with the post office. Instead to change the address on file with your charge card companies or banks directly.

Link for the event f4 is talking about:

https://www.popsci.com/technology/robot-vacuum-army/

He also gave his famous opinion about Facebook users. Deep down, he agrees with privacy advocates. The diff is that he’s a shitty enough person to take advantage of the less techy people out there even if his society will be damaged badly in the process. Most of us are not that shitty.

they trust me

dumb fucks

I think we can move beyond Facebook here. Trusting big tech with your data never works out well.

Theoretically if you never hook a smart TV to the net it shouldn’t be able to spy.

I think you are right (today!), but look what happens with cars… the car connects to a wireless network without asking you, to send back telemetry. The cost of doing that is coming down all the time, and there is a big juicy profit stream just waiting to be harvested. I will not be surprised if we see TVs do this eventually, like cars do already.

They could also be designed to simply refuse to function if they can’t connect. I didn’t hear about any like this so far, but it feels like a matter of time. Enshittification comes for everything.

I don’t get the idea that after all the shit they pulled someone’s like “well maybe this new thing’s nice”.

I look at my friends who do this even though I advize them not to. For them, data is invisible and out of sight, out of mind. Their TV is a consumer device like IDK a toaster or washing machien. They put it online with no real thought to data or privacy. From their perspective this is normal. Their neighbors all do it with their TVs. Their friends all do it! I am the only one who makes a warning to them. Everyone else they know does it. Who wouldn’t want a “smart” TV???

They don’t understand tech very well and they feel like what they see most people doing must be good. They are not thinking about the eroding effect on their whole society from normalizing dragnet surveillance and total privacy loss. It’s too abstract, and the allure of the shiny is too much.

The article:

financial service providers increasingly utilize AI features, such as automated social media screening, to determine risk scores for their customers.

I wonder how long until the absence of a discoverable social media trail will be considered a “red flag” used to deny essential services required for remedial participation in society.

I’m pretty new to Lemmy and noticed that my post was crossposted to fuckcars and privacy@programming.dev. I have no problem with that, but I didn’t do it on purpose!

I mostly agree. But sometimes if a single jurisdiction gets regulation in place, it can be cheaper for companies to produce a single model to comply with all of them, rather than make multiple models. Even if they do make multiple models, it still means there is a supply of privacy-spec cars.

California in the USA has been more privacy friendly than most states. If California would crank up some car privacy regs, maybe work with the Europeans and Canada on a common legal standard, that is a huge foot in the door! It means people in other US states could buy a California-spec car. If the momentum builds enough, maybe companies would say screw it and sell the privacy-spec cars everywhere. That happened in the past with car safety regs. It went from auto companies whining about it, to the same companies featuring it as a selling point. Look how well our cars do in crash tests!

I agree car privacy is going to be a hard fight. Auto companies will fight dirty to avoid privacy regs. But we can push on this. A groundswell of public support can’t hurt.