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NocturnalMorning, in Pharmacies Are Giving Your Medical Data To Police

Of course they are, why would there be a basic expectation of privacy for medical data, it’s only a HiPAA violation to disclose it.

cheese_greater,

Someone needs to request the worst of the worst police officers’ personal prescription records and release those to make a point

RandoCalrandian,
@RandoCalrandian@kbin.social avatar

And then we can celebrate the them at their funeral. So sad how many accidental officer firearm discharges are associated with people “making a point”.

Seriously, what part of surveillance police state do people not understand

TheHobbyist,

Unfortunately, I’m afraid it will only enforce a two tier privacy system: one where people of importance get granted a privilege when others don’t…

cheese_greater,

I’m obliquely suggesting its already that way and it needs to be reconfigured. Said bad apple’s records would likely be treated with professional courtesy like those friends of the police get out tickets free cards

Syo, (edited ) in [Discussion] How do you feel about age verification on Porn sites?
@Syo@kbin.social avatar

Absolute waste of tax money and resources, anyone advocating for this policy is an idiot and psychotic control freak that should never be allowed to opine on public policy.

Outdated values are driving this country back into the stone age. The body was designed to be horny as we go through teenage years. It's nature. Rather than guide kids on the safe path, fools would forbid, outlaw, prohibit until they can't control them after age of 18.

Here's how this plays out... Kids are going to masturbate, regardless. They will dive deeper into the Internet into places with no restrictions and be exposed to really messed up stuff. Hey at least the parent can pat themselves on the back, right, they were good partners that did everything right by the book, even paying the kid's therapist.

Moghul, (edited )

Which country would that be? This is EU related.

I don’t disagree with you otherwise. If we had a good age verification system that didn’t involve the website, only gave a boolean age check to the website, wasn’t logged at the government or any other level, I might think this was ok. But we don’t. So as soon as this starts I’ll pirate a bunch of porn.

Neato, in Google will no longer hold onto people's location data in Google Maps — meaning it can't turn that info over to the police
@Neato@kbin.social avatar

I actually use timeline. Does this mean it will no longer work on a browser?

mp3,
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

I thought the same thing, will be interesting to see if that can be done.

EarthlingHazard,

From your desktop browser? Probably. You’ll still be able to use timeline from your phone though since the data is still being stored locally

earmuff, in Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data

Now do the same thing with Google Bard.

ForgotAboutDre,

They are probably publishing this because they’ve recently made bard immune to such attack. This is google PR.

Artyom,

Generative Adversarial GANs

WaxedWookie,

Why bother when you can just do it with Google search?

Stupidmanager, (edited ) in The FCC can now punish telecom providers for charging customers more for less

About damn time.

For the last decade I’ve paid for high speed fiber cable from Comcast, and that monthly 1tb limit was a killer with a family. So I paid the extra $50 (for a few years, then $30 these last 2) for unlimited. All for a total low package price of $250. My buddy in a nearby town with better speeds and multiple options has never paid for this add on, because he has competition in the area. I had zero choice, there were zero network improvements in my area until this year when a new local fiber company started burying fiber in my area. Today I pay $100 for 2gb symmetrical unlimited internet, way cheaper than the $250 I’ve paid for years for a forced tv/phone/internet package.

I hope there’s a class action for this. Fuck Comcast.

ares35,
@ares35@kbin.social avatar

there's enough ways around charges of 'discriminating' based on the disallowed criteria of household income or race, that it will still be 'business as usual' for providers. they'll use other excuses, such as differences in local market (competition) and population/customer density, or the 'extreme' costs of upgrading aging infrastructure in previously-"avoided" areas, which would be 'allowed'.

Undearius, in Smart android keyboard respecting privacy?
@Undearius@lemmy.ca avatar

Florisboard

The developer has hit a bit of a roadblock reworking a back-end system and is requesting help, but it has a great feature set already and is super customisable.

just_another_person,

I just had the time with it, honestly. So many things are broken, like spelling and dictionary integration. I know the dev is reworking some things, but even the last release doesn’t work very well. Respects privacy, sure. Works well, naw.

GabberPiet,

Just installed last week, and the dictionary integration with two different languages works fine for me. Autocorrect is not yet supported, if I remember correctly.

just_another_person,

Prediction on dictionary, and prediction in general is broken. You essentially can’t type out anything aside from the base diction without getting crazy suggestions. Kind of a deal breaker.

BeatTakeshi,
@BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world avatar

I haven’t tried it yet and indeed I just read his post from 3 weeks ago on how to get back on better tracks. I will give it a try but I couldn’t see from its description that it would go beyond its focus on privacy, at least for the moment

RogueBanana,

Well what else do you need tho, it has glide typing, incognito move and auto correct is in development although would take a while. It’s not perfect but it’s already very much a fully decked out keyboard or it will be once suggestions are added.

BeatTakeshi, (edited )
@BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world avatar

Well my question was specifically about smart prediction (beyond autocorrect). I have found scores of privacy friendly keyboards. The one I have been using for a year is from simplemobiletools (they have a full suite of apps and I use most of them ie contacts, gallery, notes…) but I miss the prediction feature. As you say even autocorrect is not yet supported in florisboard…but that wouldn’t be enough for me. Personalised dictionary based on typing would be a start, but swiftkey goes beyond, it proposes the next words before you type them

RogueBanana,

It is also in the works along with auto correct… You really should try the keyboard first before coming to that conclusion. I am not saying it has everything now but don’t assume the developer isn’t planning to add more, that’s not a good assumption.

BeatTakeshi,
@BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world avatar

Given the project has been paused more than a year, I’ll wait and see

Tibert,

Currently florisboard doesn’t have prediction nor autocorrect prediction.

Due to complications in the development of that feature (either too heavy to run or not smart enough for prediction…) and the development of the app got stuck, until maybe recently where it seems to get some dev attraction on some topics.

Tho the prediction is still stuck. So you won’t have yet prediction or smart things in this keyboard.

sic_semper_tyrannis,

Where did you read his post?

Tibert,

Florisboard git > discussions (in the menu should be after pull requests)

viking, in How Do I Avoid Giving Home Address to Bank?
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

Banks require a physical address, that’s part of basic KYC (know your customer) requirements and part of anti money laundering / anti terrorism funding laws.

So they won’t accept P.O. boxes. While those mail forwarders can work, some will also blacklist them over time.

And really, ask yourself the question if you want your cards, PIN, and general correspondence about your finances mailed to a random third party where some underpaid person opens up and scans your letters all day…

Not quite sure what you mean with whitepages btw., your bank is not signing you up anywhere.

pineapplelover,

Somebody is. Either way. I don’t want to let strangers online my phone and home address. Ideally, I would want a p.o box type thing or mail forwarding. I don’t care for them scanning my packages.

ursakhiin,

Unless your government id has a PO box on it you’re likely not going to get the results you’re looking for. As somebody else mentioned, that info is public record.

SnotFlickerman, in Why do you think they don't show Brave here?
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

This just in: not everything is a conspiracy against your favorite browser with a sliver of marketshare.

This applies to Brave and Firefox users.

ZeroHora, in Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites
@ZeroHora@lemmy.ml avatar

Another issue is that Strict mode is used by roughly 0.5% of Brave’s users, with the rest using the default setting, which is the Standard mode.

How are they getting this data? If it’s with telemetry this data doesn’t seem reliable, I doubt that people who change the fingerprint setting don’t disable telemetry.

Umbrias,

Alternatively, lol

algernon, in How bad is Idea of .Zip as password manager?
@algernon@lemmy.ml avatar

Very bad, because the usability of such a scheme would be a nightmare. If you have to unzip the files every time you need a password, that’d be a huge burden. Not to mention that unzipping it all would leave the files there, unprotected, until you delete them again (if you remember deleting them in the first place). If you do leave the plaintext files around, and only encrypt & zip for backing up, that’s worse than just using the plaintext files in the backup too, because it gives you a false sense of security. You want to minimize the amount of time passwords are in the clear.

Just use a password manager like Bitwarden. Simpler, more practical, more secure.

fishpen0,

When we wrote malware in labs in college one of the first places we looked was unemptied trash. This is almost certainly a pattern that’s going to leave your crap in trash in plaintext and even the dumbest script kiddie will find it the very first time you slip and something gets in your system.

Asudox, (edited ) in The Boost android client for Lemmy is displaying these dark pattern ads pretending to be system notifications. What security/privacy conscious Lemmy clients do you recommend?
@Asudox@lemmy.world avatar

Jerboa. It lacks some features, but it’s the official app and it’s also pretty minimalistic with its material you UI. Other than that Thunder is pretty good. They’re both FOSS.

harry_balzac,

I used Thunder at first but it would crash frequently. Why? I don’t know. It’d just stop working. Very frustrating because it is otherwise very good.

Switched to Jerboa after a couple of weeks and it’s been great.

library_napper, in I'm looking for a privacy respecting vacuum robot
@library_napper@monyet.cc avatar

Broom

9488fcea02a9,

Roomba is an anagram for “a broom”

intensely_human,

I thought it was an anagram for “Robo Ma”

Cosmicomical, in Verizon Gave Her Data to a Stalker. ‘This Has Completely Changed My Life’

“We are taking every step possible to work with the police so they can identify them.”

Yeah just make sure it's the actual police.

MummifiedClient5000, in uefi is literally malware

UEFI may be bad, but this format screams “rant of a mentally unstable person”.

Stalinwolf, in What the actual fuck?!
@Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca avatar

This reminds me of the anonymous confession thing that made it’s rounds on Facebook several years back. My cousin would post links to his every day with messages like, “Let’s see what you’ve got” or “Give me your worst” attached to it. I suspect he was desperately fishing for compliments, or hoping for anonymous love confessions from the girls he was flirting with, as he would also post scrambled love letters on his wall that he must have figured these girls had time to sit down and eagerly unscramble (ie; I VELO UYO YLSHAE RMOE NTHA HTE UNS VELOS TEH ONOM). I always made sure to anonymously let him know what a stupid, annoying fuck he was being.

Cqrd,

If I had a dollar for every stupid thing I’ve deleted that Facebook has reminded me I posted in high school or college, I’d be debt free.

Riven,
@Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I’m glad MySpace got nuked and deleted all my old stuff.

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