What country is that yellow dot right near 100?

This post actually illustrates the opposite of your interpretation. Satire generally extrapolates on the actual real events with logical evolutions that demonstrate that the original premise was laughable at best, and at worst creates a double standard.

Is that justification for spying on civilians?

Are they bad at privacy or good at data scraping? It’s not like they intend to protect your privacy. That doesn’t make the line go up.

Otherwise bank on the fact that regulations surrounding healthcare data are pretty strong and are taken pretty seriously, and Microsoft knows that.

This is a ridiculous statement and you know it.

You can’t. In Ontario, we had a massive data breach where basically every single person’s personal data on file was stolen from numerous hospitals. They’re still using XP if I’m not mistaken.

Duolingo, where your progress can be wiped out without any notice anytime the company wants to change the structure of the language you’re learning. Super helpful!

Yall need to grab some pitchforks

Anybody here still using facebook or IG?

We already knew this was happening at least a decade ago when people realized why Facebook and Instagram needed unrestricted microphone permissions.

They also use Facebook messenger, which famously is not social media.

1. Use a trustworthy VPN and encrypt your DNS lookups
2. Set up a Pihole for DNS filtering and ad server blocking/use UBO on FF
3. Don’t associate your online usernames with your real name or any identifying information like your birthyear (so like, don’t use Facebook)

Your IP address is everything to companies that track you. It’s way easier to automate software to collate data on a range of IP addresses than it is to create bespoke automation or gasp employ somebody to create data points on you. If you’re in the habit of identifying yourself online by signing all of your posts with your name, age, and email address, sure, a VPN won’t keep you 100% private, and your DNS lookups are still plaintext, but if you change your server periodically and don’t provide any details about who you are, what the hell is an ad serving company going to do with a range of known VPN server IP addresses?

How does a password manager improve online privacy? Aren’t you just centralizing all of your login credentials that could be hacked like a certain password manager was recently?

How many of yall are still using facebook? Be honest.

Literally facial recognition cameras at every single stop light in UK.

Okay so how would this be enforced? Highly unlikely any messaging service that offers E2E is going to release a version without it just to satisfy the UK government. So this will basically be easily thwarted by using a VPN?

Nah, UbO works perfectly. I have zero QOL complaints. It literally blocks every single banner ad and video ad on every single website.

You know that ublock origin blocks youtube ads right?

I use Discord because that’s where everyone is. Signal and Telegram raise an eyebrow for their E2E encryption, which in practice, is marketing only. It’s a matter of time before E2E doesn’t cut it and law enforcement and governments possess keys. I don’t divulge personal information about myself over Discord, so there’s no data points to connect to a real person. Generally, the privacy focused folks use these other apps because it helps them coordinate certain political actions that I find repugnant. If I need to communicate privately, I speak in person. If I need to talk to someone digitally, I’ll email them.

Discord is really the most feature rich and user friendly chat app available. If someone says they use Telegram or Signal, I generally raise an eyebrow.