I was going to say why is this news now? This was a big thing at the end of 2023. Like they even mentioend it in the article.

The practice first came to light in 2023 when Senator Ron Wyden sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice

Well to be fair they said to remove all mentions of gender from government documentation. They meant ALL of it.

Lots of small companies don’t require/give you to use a dedicated work phone. Shit my company isn’t even all that small anymore and we still don’t.

And CRTs dont???

As soon as you use a digital input you lose any real latency advantages. Plus modern digital displays have such low latency the difference really doesn’t matter.

There is no meaningful data for the OS to capture if it used as a display for externally connected devices.

Except that some of these devices are periodically “screenshotting” the screen and harvesting data from that.

Pair that with automatically connecting to open wifi networks and nothing is truly safe.

The surveillance is mostly done on the inside of the car, not the outside. Parking sensors don’t really provide useful data for them to harvest, but that is why they cost so much to replace. If you don’t care about parking sensors you can just replace your bumper without them, the car doesn’t really care after you tell it “you didn’t ship with parking sensors”.

They asked for the passport and did the face scan? Outside of the first time they’ve haven’t asked for my passport yet.

You can be the enemy of the advertisers and they will do everything in their power to destroy you. Or you can not entirely piss them off and actually continue to exist and try to do as much good as you can.

Is this a school issued computer or your own on their network? Never assume you have any privacy on a computer that isn’t your own. Even if you do get a VPN on there they probably have software on the laptop to monitor your actual screen which is far more privacy invasive than seeing that you accessed lemmy 500 times in an hour.

I like the password in my thinkpad’s bios that’s case sensitive when entering it to log in, but setting the password it’s not. That took me a while to figure out.

Then don’t. It’s that simple. It is impossible to live a 100% private life, you have to value your own time and enjoyment.

My solution? Just not care.

I do things that help my privacy, but don’t make my life harder. When investing in a new product privacy is one of the things I try to attain, but if option A works perfectly for me, but has some questionable things in their TOS, and option B just straight up doesn’t work but is great for privacy then I’m going to go with option 1 10/10 times.

You’ll never be able to live your life if you never go out.

In terms of privacy of course because in terms of price it’s another story

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Also none of the comments even bother addressing the actual question.

“grapheneOS trolls are downvoting every single post and comment of mine, and committing vote manipulation on Lemmy. They are using 5-6 accounts.”

Is that really criticism of graphene os? or is it complaining about specific users who like graphene os?

but part of me wishes there was a way to work towards getting bad drivers off of the roads.

More stringent requirements for drivers license? Actually punishing people for texting and driving?

Culturally you can help too. I personally lay on the horn when someone is texting and driving.

What if the account is compromised? Now the spammer is able to do their spams freely on the IP address.

It’s just a hell of a lot easier to black list the entire IP than to try to manually let in small percentage of people who use a VPN AND want to comment or whatever.

You can just make a new account and blam you’re free from the ban on your account. That’s why IP bans exist.

“Hang on let me write down my QR code”

Usernames exist for a reason, especially in chat apps. Not having usernames is only going to severely limit your target demographic. And if nobody uses your app does it’s benefits even matter?

Also blocking web crawlers in the post API era.