Really loving how a CEO's political views somehow fucking matter the security of a browser lmao. God I fucking hate this generation
I have the perfect app for you
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.trustdevice.android
All govs want to protect or further their personal interests: Monopolies of violence, power, and intelligence. The citizens be damned.
people like you will actually wait until the very day that such a thing happens, THEN you will complain. How sad.
There's nothing you can really do about it. Lemmy should encourage as much privacy as possible, and it's plain to see that there is work to be done in that realm, however, you should always protect yourself from the servers you connect to and store data on, regardless of whether it's oriented to privacy or otherwise.
Using VPN or TOR, not saying anything that could identify you, making multiple accounts, things like this.
Nice. Hope to see some public instances and eventually integration with those redirect extensions.
So lucky to have a cool mom <3
Because that's what they are told to think. The notion that they are thinking on their own is laughable.
i didnt scan any barcode when i went in recently. I was saying that I did before (a couple years ago i think), which could be how to attached facial data to email, if indeed they did do it the association that with facial data
first one is not plausible, I allow no location data to a single app, especially not any closed source apps
Second one also not plausible. I have MAC randomization.
So recently, I went into a shipping service store, that is well known, etc etc. I walked in, asked a question, then walked out. I did nothing else.
A couple days later, I get an email from them, to the email address that I have used for them in the past. The email wants me to take a survey.
Now, since I have made a shipping label online with them before once, then took that label (attached to a parcel) in the store, which was then scanned, I can only assume that this recent email I got was the result of facial recognition data gathering.
I am an extremely privacy conscious person, but this tactic evades even me, as the only way to avoid it, would be to never set foot into their store.
I really really hate myself too because the email I used with them is one of my personal-name emails and now they have that. I did that before I became privacy conscious. I can only imagine how other people feel, who are much deeper in the hole than a random facial recognition incident.
Have any of your ever experienced this? where you walked into some place and then got an email? It's so creepy..
The only service that comes to mind for me is NordVPN, which is based in Panama.
Is Panama the big brain move? If so, why aren't more privacy services doing this?
What kind of privacy laws are good in Panama? Any that aren't? Does it have a history of bowing to Five Eyes requests?
They are extremely begrudging when it comes to providing a fully FOSS apk. They push really hard for their app to be pulled from Google's servers and refuse to do an F-Droid build or even set up their own instance where they can push whatever they want.
To be sure, your messages won't be read from the server, but that's not the point. There's way more going on.
The evidence is all there. It's ironic that the negative association of the word "conspiracy" was actually pushed by the CIA and their cohorts, and is used on other words too, to cause your mind to instantly recoil is disassociate yourself from it.
Just try it. Say "I'm a conspiracy theorist" out loud in front of people, and felt the fear instantly take over as you try to mentally remove yourself from it. That's called brainwashing.
But people like you do their bidding and perpetuate the weaponization of "evil" sounding words.
We as a community must stop recommending Signal. For far too long we have blindly followed this app without a second thought. It has created a cult of followers, when there are much better apps out there for us to use.
https://archive.is/Lhe24 archive for the essay
This essay was posted to r/Privacy and subsequently removed and censored for literally No Reason. This is honestly really scary: https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/wj5svi/signal_messenger_revealed_to_have_cia_ties_funded/ https://archive.ph/FZr1d
I am seriously hoping we can have a discussion about this on lemmy. @TheAnonymouseJoker , I know you from r/PrivateLife, and thought you'd be the one to go to about this. Thanks for being open in the past and not bowing to the inner circle of reddit cringelords.
I also am preparing an essay of my own about a complicit honeypot-ish web going on between Signal, Skiff, r/Privacy, r/PrivacyGuides, etc. They have a crazy little cabal that is very creepy. Any materials are welcome. Every time i turn over a stone i find two more. More to come.