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  • Until we stop the practice of drawing imaginary lines on the planet and regulating which side each person is allowed to be on, nearly every travelers and pretty much all the boarder control apparatus is going to want to spend as little time and money on one another as possible.

    Amen to that

  • They could eventually cross reference the exits to arrivals

    Why isn't a passport enough for that? Each one has a unique ID number, why not use that as reference but instead rely on privacy-invasive biometric data collection? You can just tap your passport on a scanner and it'll read the machine readable part on both arrival and departure, then have facial recognition/fingerprints be verified if you wanna be 100% sure the passport holder is who they say they are. Many e-passports have this data embedded inside them on a chip, thought that was the whole point.

  • What the hell do these guys get out of it? Does someone at CBP jerk off to thinking about the amounts of personal data they collect? How do they use it? Or is it just a database of people's data "in case we need it in the future :3"? wtf...

  • Not even leaked, just declassified. It's basically a press statement saying "oh we're chill now please store your data in the US"

  • "Private" and "email" should really not appear in the same sentence. The email protocol was not designed with privacy in mind, so any company offering you a "private" email service is simply pandering to the privacy-conscious crowd. Yes, some may promise to store your messages with "zero access encryption" and end-to-end encrypt messages between users of the same service but unless you're only messaging those users (not gonna happen) copies of all your messages will be hanging around on much less secure/private servers.

    Tutanota, Protonmail and Lavabit are currently the most known services promising private email (I have personally opted for Protonmail because it's free and does not require invites) but you're making a mistake if you want to use email for any sort of private or confidential communication. Use mail to create an account on with a service designed with privacy in mind, sure, but don't try and twist email into something that it isn't - you will regret it.

    My general philosophy with email is to use a service which would go out of business if it was found out that they've been giving 3rd parties access to your messages and even then don't store anything sensitive on mail. The ones mentioned above will do fine for that.

  • They will... when they finally get invented. For now though, law enforcement will have to do annoying things like "following the word of law" and convincing judges who clearly do not understand the national security implications of kids going to the wrong school to give them warrants.

  • I doubt Firefox will give in. Much more likely is that websites start blocking it until you cannot use the internet without Chromium

  • Yeah, Matrix should be in the middle. Telegram is tech normie but in the east.

  • What in the name of fuck is that bill. That's one of the worst pieces of legislation I've seen in a longer while. Companies and open source communities will immediately catch that an employee is trying to sabotage their system on behalf of the government by means of code review and version control history. The programmer will be questioned, then likely fired or ostracized in case of open source works and the code will hit the bin. This idiotic... thing will accomplish nothing but harm their own citizens who will now be treated like potential therats and denied employment opportunities.

    On a funnier note, every time Australia introduces some horrible tech-related bill I remember this beautiful clip summarising just how well politicians understand technology.

  • "A bit" is an understatement, that title is complete clickbait garbage

  • I understand your point but that is the worst attempt at discussion I've ever seen lmao

    "Too lazy to formulate an argument, look one up yourself"

  • They won't keep your cookies or SessionStorage but extensions will stay on across all containers. If you wanna test websites in a clean environment you should probably create a new profile or download another Firefox modified for developers (can't have enough foxes in your computer amirite) altogether

  • For what it's worth Brave and Opera do extend the base Chromium functionality quite a bit. No idea why they couldn't have done it with FF/Gecko though.

  • I wouldn't go so far as to call it "terrible for privacy" but yeah, that is a flaw.

  • The fediverse caught regulators on the back foot, as new tech tends to do. Yes, legally speaking they admins should anonymize or delete the modlogs and comments/posts, but is it technically possible on lemmy considering content is distributed across multiple instances? No idea. Your best bet is to email the administrators of your home instance. Also mind GDPR rights only apply to you if you're a citizen of the EU.

  • I just recently found out that Americans do in fact have data caps even on landline. Recommend watching this episode of Patriot Act, it made me realize just how shitty ISPs are in America, all in the name of profit.

    The only thing ISPs adjust is your bandwidth, offices with many computers need more and have to pay up.

    And yeah, @mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world. Unlimited means unlimited. Go download your... whatever it is you're downloading.

  • I am not a lawyer, but I am very sure that is a violation of the GDPR and highly illegal.

    Sadly not. GDPR mandates that user content be deleted or anonymized and replacing your username with "Deleted User" seems to satisfy this requirement, even if everybody knows it's you who sent them. FWIW Reddit doesn't delete your comments either, but at least they don't prevent you from deleting them via a script.

  • Mine has a choice of picking Raw, JPEG or HEIF, probably just a vendor dependent feature difference