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And now realise the same is true for your robot vacuum, car camera, doorbell camera, etc etc We consumers have no protection against big tech
> We consumers have no protection against big tech I like to call big tech, “Little Sister” since governments are “Big Brother”
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How about we just enforce minimum privacy standards on big tech instead? Sure you can root all your own hardware but you can’t stop the fact that your walk down the street is documented by Amazon and Google front door bells There is no opt out of this surveillance if you live in modern society
> if you live in modern society Quite an if you got there... pointing security or doorbell cameras to public spaces isn't legal where I live.
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Sure you do. All of those are available in local versions without Internet. You just need to care enough, be able to afford them (while my vacuum has no camera, it requires the cloud, but it was significantly cheaper than a local or hackable one), and have the ability to self host something like home assistant.
How about we just enforce minimum privacy standards on big tech instead? Sure you can root all your own hardware but you can’t stop the fact that your walk down the street is documented by Amazon and Google front door bells There is no opt out of this surveillance if you live in modern society
Won't this cause significant legal issues in two party consent states and have a huge potential to run afoul of revenge porn laws?
Where are all the think of the children people now?
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And now realise the same is true for your robot vacuum, car camera, doorbell camera, etc etc We consumers have no protection against big tech
Speak for yourself, I rooted my vacuum the day I bought it
Facebook/Meta pays teens to install a VPN so they can snoop on user traffic and decrypts competitors traffic (Snapchat) under guidance of Zuckerberg himself. [1]
Facebook/Meta covertly backdoors users phones [2]
Facebook requests phone number for 2FA and then uses for ads/tracking without disclosure [3]
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-sn...
[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20260116094503/https://localmess....
[3] https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/press-release/file/1186...