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PierceTheBubble

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  • Women in Brussels 'filmed without their knowledge' by men wearing Meta smart glasses

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  • If only they had a "legitimate public-interest justification", then they could feed it straight into Brussels' Regional Informatics Center (BRIC), together with the thousands of public cameras from: police stations, the subway system, the port of Brussels, the fire and emergency medical assistance department, and the public service department responsible for traffic management, signals and tunnels; to be analyzed by video analytics tools (alerting operators upon "illegal parking or a large group of people, for example", bookmarking video clips with movement, and where the "next step will be to integrate facial and number plate recognition"), as reported in their Genetec customer story...

  • Women in Brussels 'filmed without their knowledge' by men wearing Meta smart glasses

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  • The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything

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  • The first would be considered incomplete, and lead most to ask: "U kunt ... wat?" ("You can do ... what?"). "U kunt het" as "You (formal) can do it" would sound like "You removed head" but with a thick Dutch accent haha

  • The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything

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  • The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything

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  • Ah okay, so you have some sort of online portal for you doctor's office; where you can either log in using your DigiD or a regular account? That would make sense for a digitally managed system.

  • The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything

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  • Scheduling a doctor's appointment and getting a prescription refilled? I've never used my DigiD for that, nor do I think it's even an option here; it's pretty much all telephone. And as for the source code, only part of the source code was published (as a result of 'Wet Open Overheid verzoek': a request for transparency); and I believe they're migrating from Github to code.overheid.nl.

  • More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, Background Checks, and Noise Complaints

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  • citing a warning given to parents that submitting a false statement of residency may be a felony.

    Couldn't you send a letter to the address with a verification mechanism, instead of defaulting to inquiring mass-surveillance databases? And why are school districts investigating potential felonies to begin with, shouldn't that be handled by law enforcement?

    This is the same as if I put a police officer on the side of the road with a pen and a notepad and he writes down every license plate number that drives by

    The concept of collecting personal data, for the slim chance of becoming relevant in the future, should not be acceptable to anyone. If license plates are not directly relevant to an investigation, the officer, camera, or whatever else, shouldn't be logging it.

  • EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram ‘addictive design’ hooking kids

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  • The EU’s executive arm has also developed its own age verification app, which has the “highest privacy standards in the world,” according to Von der Leyen. Member states will soon be able to integrate it into their digital wallets, and it can easily be enforced by online platforms. “No more excuses – the technology for age-verification is available,” the EU chief said.

    So more pro age-verification propaganda, instead of what the headline suggests: nothing concrete in that regard. How about devices with parental control for kids, which only allow access to platforms suitable for the demographic, instead of "age"-gating the entire internet (including for adults)?

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  • More consumer spyglasses and bodycams, which perpetually feed an AI agent; that isn't dystopian, you are...

  • Apple’s AirPods with cameras for AI are apparently close to production

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  • A resolution low enough to be able to identify "ingredients they have in front of them". And they're also planning to launch smart glasses (read: spyglasses) and AI pendants (read: consumer bodycams), as to be able to compete with Meta and OpenAI (with regards to harvesting data without consent?) But I guess you first introduce them into one of your most widely-adopted wearable, where the high probability of people being spied on, isn't as obvious compared to relatively uncommon spyglasses or bodycams.

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  • Yeah, on the rare occasion where I do order something online, and happen to trip up the convoluted system, I rather give the webshop a call, than giving into this dystopian nonsense. And I've long done away with any mainstream platforms, which I suspect will happily adopt the system (especially those who forced me to adopt 2FA: which was seemingly just in preparation of this...). I'll happily function as an example, to illustrate just how morally unjust it is, to effectively force someone to purchase and use a device they explicitly chose not to use; I really want to hear someone justify that.

    I think there's few people left, which do not believe we've gone too far with technology, so the Amish to some extend are definitely onto something.

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  • It turns out reCAPCHA has been a privacy nightmare from the beginning: from silently monitoring user activity in the background, to sending payment information to Google; in order for an AI to assess the data, and return a risk-score to the website. But that apparently wasn't bold enough, and now an effective 2FA is required, which provides additional telemetry to Google (but not to the website or app: which is obviously the privacy concern). So get ready to 2FA with Google upon registration, login, updating your cart, and payment; or to skip the hassle, you should just let an approved "shopping assistant" make purchases for you ("that drive a projected 25% increase in average order value"). I don't even own a modern Android or iOS device, so how am I supposed to solve these?

  • Nvidia’s New Partnership Wants to Put Mini AI Data Centers on Your House

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  • It seems they're really focusing on "registration, login, cart, and payment", which would mean the customer would have to do this effective 2FA (which most consumers have conveniently been conditioned into using...), at least during these stages. This paired with the ability to allow "trusted" AI agents (including shopping assistants "that drive a projected 25% increase in average order value"), really makes it appear they're incentivizing use of these shopping assistants (in order to avoid the 2FA hassle). It's batshit insane the big-tech oligopoly has enshittified the internet to such a degree, the average consumer is required to outsource their usage to a big-tech agent (or at least one "trusted" by these platforms), for them to get any meaningful use out of it. And the rogue actors? Well, they'll probably resort back to exploiting the third-world for solving CAPTCHAs...

  • Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good

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  • I'll give it a year before this "voluntary" evaluation becomes mandatory, while standards based on industry-leading models, dictate guardrails impossible to implement for upcoming models. And thus giving reason to consider would-be competitors' models a "national security risk": evaluated by a board, which by then, is composed of "experts" with a vested interest in the leading industry...

    Personally I believe AI models, using content for which they do not have the creator's explicit permission, have no right to exist (at least as a commercially available product).

  • Guilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names

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  • Camera surveillance is simply no longer compatible with use in spaces, structurally inviting the general public, due to advances in technology. You cannot physically limit what's being captured by an image sensor: it captures everything, and filtering (including removable masking) is only able to happen after collection. Which could also mean the data itself, or derivatives thereof, may be stored indefinitely; and could, at any time in the future, be used as evidence against members of society.

    The only meaningful strategy to prohibit this, is to physically remove these surveillance systems: so personal data isn't collected to begin with. Don't even get me started, about the GDPR supposedly protecting citizens against this type of surveillance: it pushed for modernization of the systems, legitimized the "collect but protect" approach, created physical backdoors for the government to get ahold personal data being collected, and incentivized member states to piggy bank off of it.

    But I'm glad the cracks are beginning to surface, and ordinary folks starting to grow uncomfortable around modern camera surveillance too, because that's the only reasonable response to it.

  • Toyota built a $10 billion private utopia—what’s going on in there?

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  • It's not a data protection issue, it's a data collection issue

  • Welcome to Dunwoody's Virtual Human Zoo: Flock claimed explicit permission to view cameras where children play. Dunwoody says no such permission exists.

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  • Practically every modern IP surveillance system can (and does) share evidence digitally

    As self-hosted systems could sadly be considered a rounding error, in the context of all surveillance systems in use. And as long as home surveillance systems are strictly limited, to only capture within the boundaries of the property they reside on, I'm willing to accept that as a compromise. But I'm somewhat biased as a former mailman, in saying it's uncomfortable to be under surveillance, regardless of whether the data is kept locally or not. At least in my local area, there's no substantiated reason for such systems, and installations likely stem from unfounded paranoia, or reasons related to "convenience" (a doorbell camera to give instructions for package deliveries, instead of creating a designated spot for such deliveries).

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    California police can start ticketing driverless cars this July

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  • ... these updated regulations further demonstrate the state’s commitment to public safety

    No it doesn't. Taking these vehicles, which are clearly not production ready, off the streets would. So now you have these effective 360 degree cameras, systematically roaming public streets, that are legally required to collect and report data on "safety related" incidents (which could be anything these days).

  • Welcome to Dunwoody's Virtual Human Zoo: Flock claimed explicit permission to view cameras where children play. Dunwoody says no such permission exists.

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  • I wish more people understood this problem isn't restricted to Flock systems: every modern IP surveillance system can (and does) share evidence digitally, or set access privileges to their systems (allowing for real-time monitoring by third parties: mostly law enforcement); or if you're a larger organization in the European Union, the GDPR requires a 'Data Protection Officer (DPO)' to have access to personal data being collected at all times, and must abide to any request being made by authorities, while under professional secrecy (and explicitly not disclose such additional processing, in access requests filed by data subjects). All of these seemingly separate systems (regardless of being privately or publicly owned), are increasingly growing interconnected, typically resulting into local 'Operation Control Centers (OCCs)'; which may in turn share data they aggregate to further national, or even globally spanning OCCs.

  • Verified by Spotify: New No AI badge— it appears for creators with steady listener activity, clean platform records, and real-world proof like live shows or merch drops

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  • Yet another platform with meaningless badges