A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don’t promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
Related communities
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
- 0 users online
- 57 users / day
- 383 users / week
- 1.5K users / month
- 5.7K users / 6 months
- 1 subscriber
- 3.11K Posts
- 77.9K Comments
- Modlog
Downvote this post for spreading fear-mongering, poorly-researched “journalism.”
This is a shit article from a shit source. It references itself, which, in turn, references guardian. There’s no mention of police pulling data from period tracking services. The only related thing I could find in OP was a quote from whatever tortoisemedia is:
And it sucks, but this is not a dystopian surveillance bullshit OP is trying to sell. Put a password on your shit and you’re good to go.
You’re totally downplaying the tortoisemedia quote by not mentioning it’s from the co-chair of the British Society of Abortion Care Providers, a totally legitimate and mainstream body.
If you think this is a shit article, tell me what you think it gets wrong. Or are you basing your opinion on the fact you weren’t previously aware of tortoisemedia?
You’re being disingenuous.
What it gets wrong is ethics. If you’re writing about one thing, but giving it a title of another - you’re a shit publication.
They’re writing about the Police using tracking data and that’s what the title of the article is. You keep saying they’re a shit publication based on absolutely nothing aside from your opinion.
You also stated this is a shit article, when I asked you to say why, you chose not to, instead saying they’re a shit publication. So I’ll ask you again. If you believe this is a shit article, tell me what they’re wrong about.
I think the issue is with what is implied by the headline as well as the context of being posted on a privacy community. I as well as many others probably ready that headline assuming the police somehow had access to that data from the app outside of the person’s phone. I know that also makes some assumptions, but probably the ones most people on a privacy community are thinking/making. Most of us would be assuming that if the app was sharing this data with police, or the police had some back door way of accessing it, then this would be a big privacy news item. The fact that they viewed the data on an unlocked phone and app is much less a privacy concern, more of a policy concern that they are allowed and able to do that (admittedly, still privacy related but to me this is like 80% policy concern and 20% privacy related). Also what actually happened is pretty different from what the headline on a privacy community implies which is where people are having issue. Some examples of this to make it even more clear…
The statement isn’t technically false. The first sentence is true, the second sentence can absolutely be the opinion of the poster. But the combination implies that she died from the vaccine, something totally different from what actually happened.
If it was posted to a non privacy related community, the assumption that there was a privacy concern may be much less, but I think the headline would still be misleading. In the facebook example the person was misrepresenting what happened to push a political agenda that vaccines are bad. In both the murder example and in the article linked in your post, the headline is trying to misrepresent what happened to increase engagement.
There are very clear reasons why the headlines weren’t the following:
Since this got really long, it’s important to say I was just trying to show how the headline is misrepresentation of what happened. I don’t think you posted it with any ill intention or that there aren’t other moral and political issues with what is happening.
Yes, and I despair only at this steaming pile of trigger bait having got so many upvotes. I expected some degree of critical thinking on Lemmy, not the same sort of knee-jerk conspiracy bullshit that abounds on Reddit and Twitter. Silly me.
Keeping track of livestock
When authoritarians don’t fear consequences, there’s is no limit to what they are willing to commit.
It’s dystopian shit like this that is beginning to make me despair of what my country will be in 10 years time.
The passing of the online safety bill, this sort of shit, the recent legislation making it more and more difficult to protest anything, the massive expansion of facial recognition cameras everywhere. We’re on the edge of a bad period I think.
obligatory: “literally 1984”
The UK has always been an oppressor lol
True, but it’s definitely getting both worse and more blatant.
Worse than their genocides in Africa, America, etc?
Are you genuinely asking me if the ramping up of invasive legislation in the UK is worse than genocide?
Because you said the country has gotten worse than historically, yes.
…on a privacy related Community regarding a privacy related story, talking about privacy related legislation.
You’re insinuating two entirely disparate things are the same. Privacy related legislation and our historical propensity for genocide.
No, you’re just becoming more aware of it
Nah bro if shit hits the fan, we can use the tech against politicians & super-rich . They can’t hide, look at both sides of the coin. Just keep doing good, don’t fret on the darkest possible outcome.
can you point to any signs justifying your optimistic thoughts?
Signs: programming is easy to learn. Learn to hack the things that make you scared. Afraid of mosquito-sized drones killing you? Kill your politicians with them first instead.
Mandatory “e-vax” passports? Hack them, show the world that they are useless as they are easier to forge than a stamped paper.
Databases holding miscarriages info to use the info against people in the future ? Corrupt their data, fill it with crap, or expose it so they have to shut the place down.
It’s not what the world can do for you…
if it’s as easy as just ‘hack them’ what’s stopping you?
Possibly could have reworded that last sentence. Unless it was a deliberate pun?
Can’t think what they’d want from this though. And why the police? They’ve got better things to do, this is a health matter.
The police think they’re solving murders.
Is abortion not legal in the UK?
Literally at the top of the article:
Thanks
Up to 24 weeks. Someone was recently jailed for self inducing an abortion near term. If we want to get technical, abortion is decriminalised in that it’s an offence to do it unless it’s done medically and two doctors need to sign off that it’s necessary for the physical or mental health of the patient.
So nearly the same as in germany. Ok
yes but ‘the more you know’ 🌈
It’s legal and as are morning after pills.
“Given that one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage, and the vast majority of them are unexplained, this rise in investigations of and the treatment of unexplained miscarriage as suspicious is deeply concerning…”
Three in four, according to Guttmacher. Half are due to failure to implant, and go by undetected.
But part of the problem is women who miscarry often suffer from mental illness, including an unreasonable belief that somehow they are at fault. (Selection is part of the gestation process. Many, many conceptions are incompatible with life even in perfect conditions.) So law enforcement may be capitalizing on a demographic that already feels guilty.
A lot of the time miscarriages also aren’t even known about, it just looks like an irregular cycle. So there’s a fairly good chance the pregnancy would be news to the person accused of getting an illegal abortion.
And it’s often familial too.
My family on my mothers side and my eldest sister all struggled to carry pregnancies to term in their 20’s, getting pregnant relatively easily, to then miscarry.
Heck, my mothers mom died in childbirth giving birth to her, she first had a long string of miscarriages and then was on the old side to have babies when my mom came along.
It’s all a very “hey, lets stigmatize and traumatize these people that are going through a horrible medical and psychological event in their lives some more!”.