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not to mention when google puts you in captcha-hell-ban. often, after a few difficult ones, I realize I get stuck into the same 20 challenges. over and over. no matter if I get them rigth or not. We do run all browser in the office with figerprint protection on and run non-exit-tor-nodes in all offices. But those are hardly excuses. The hell bans happens more often on firefox for android, but I guess that is what you…
I have fingerprinting off too in firefox, and a lot times I now just ignore sites using captcha.
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#222https://github.com/mozilla-services/shavar-prod-lists/blob/7...
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https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7k8ved/mozilla_fac... https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/mozilla-announces-resign... https://wiki.mozilla.org/Speaker_Series#Monday_Oct_1.2C_2018... https://twitter.com/datasociety/status/1093227579723730946 I could go on forever with Mozilla's connections to organizations promoting and facilitating politically motivated censorship.
Just to be clear: other than the Mr Robot promo your main criticism is that their politics don't align with yours? Because I think when people ask about Mozilla controversies they're thinking about situations in which Mozilla has "broken character" by e.g. risking users' privacy, not activism that is absolutely in line with Mozilla's stated goals (whether you personally agree with them and their interpretation thereo…
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> Targeting this advert to most likely be seen by people who actually had been thinking of buying a hat shaped like sporting equipment is still a good idea too. Not if that targeting is done using data gathered about me without my consent -- as it almost universally is. Targeting based on context (what sort of website the ad is on, for instance), is fine.
Data about you is not your data. Anyone can stand outside and watch what people do and take notes. That doesn't need your consent. It's the same thing here.
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In this case the clue is the word fingerprinting. If someone outside your door was taking fingerprint impressions, your name, and then writing down your license plate and selling that info to anyone with money - would you just let that continue? Unlikely.
In the real world they can't physically touch you so let's replace that with passive facial recognition. In that case, yes they can do that all today. Someone can follow you all day from the moment you step out into public. We might not like it but it is legal and they own their observations.
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In the real world they can't physically touch you so let's replace that with passive facial recognition. In that case, yes they can do that all today. Someone can follow you all day from the moment you step out into public. We might not like it but it is legal and they own their observations.
Wut. Stalking is literally a criminal offense.
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Data about you is not your data. Anyone can stand outside and watch what people do and take notes. That doesn't need your consent. It's the same thing here.
It is by Berne convention. Gathering doesn't need my consent, but I can disallow it. In an ideal world DoNotTrack request would be honored, but since nobody did it, denial had to become the default.
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Wut. Stalking is literally a criminal offense.
You should look up the legal definition of stalking. Making public observations isn't it.
> Whilst there is no strict legal definition of 'stalking', section 2A (3) of the PHA 1997 sets out examples of acts or omissions which, in particular circumstances, are ones associated with stalking. For example, following a person, watching or spying on them or forcing contact with the victim through any means, including social media.
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Definition of stalking
Stalking is not legally defined but section 2A (3) of the PHA 1997 lists a number of examples of behaviours associated with stalking. The list is not an exhaustive one but gives an indication of the types of behaviour that may be displayed in a stalking offence. The listed behaviours are:
(a) following a person,
(b) contacting, or attempting to contact, a person by any means,
(c) publishing any statement or other material relating or purporting to relate to a person, or purporting to originate from a person,
(d) monitoring the use by a person of the internet, email or any other form of electronic communication,
(e) loitering in any place (whether public or private),
(f) interfering with any property in the possession of a person,
(g) watching or spying on a person.
--end here--I mean, that's pretty clear.
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#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
Data about you is not your data. Anyone can stand outside and watch what people do and take notes. That doesn't need your consent. It's the same thing here.
Metadata = Surveillance https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/metadata_surv... Quote: "An easy thought experiment demonstrates this. Imagine that you hired a private detective to eavesdrop on a subject. That detective would plant a bug in that subject's home, office, and car. He would eavesdrop on his computer. He would listen in on that subject's conversations, both face to face and remotely, and you would…
My point is that surveillance is not illegal and does not require any consent to accrue information through public observation.
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#230I appreciate it when my browser takes the position that it acts as the user's agent, and not the advertising network's agent.
This attitude from the Mozilla crew has convinced me to try switching from Chrome for a week. (I understand that these latest features aren't yet available in the normal releases)