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I dunno? Are you referring to the USA? Did your military take over the Democrat-run states when Trump sent them there last year?
Your answer doesn’t make any sense to me.
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Death certificates are public records (at least in the UK) so why shouldn't you be able to get one? I think the alternative, where people's deaths could be kept secret by the state is a far greater risk than the privacy rights of the dead (GDPR type laws generally apply to the living). I don't know about elsewhere but in the UK anyone can apply for any death certificate going back to 1837.
Applying is one thing. Giving unrestricted access to anyone, which contains a ton of private information, be it of a deceased person, is not OK. Going back to my original statement: fake name, fake email, untraceable payment.
It doesn't matter if it's a fake name as it's a pubic record. Anyone is allowed to see the information.
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Perhaps, or perhaps there are legitimate privacy concerns with requiring every website to collect a photo of your ID to prove you are not a minor?
There are legitimate privacy concerns with requiring every website to collect a photo of your ID to prove you are not a minor. Those concerns are amplified when it's done even lower in the stack. You don't want a website to collect your ID? Neither do I. I also don't want my OS to collect anything about me either.
Is that true though? I trust MSFT, AAPL, GOOG, META more than I trust every website that would be collecting IDs. Most of those guys already have my payment info anyway.
Centralization at the major corporations allows (in principle, if regulators act) tight monitoring, high standards, and you are always free to mandate privacy-preserving solutions like the EU did.
I can’t tell if you’re just anti- any age verification, or if you legitimately think that conditional on age verification happening, you’d rather that every website starts collecting ID as part of signup. Can you help me understand why you think it’s better for every single website (eg porn, chat sites, forums, etc) to be required to collect photos of your ID?
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#494Anyone reading this purely as a child safety or campaign finance story might miss the broader architectural war happening here. If you zoom out a little, this is the inevitable, scorched-earth retaliation for Apple's ATT rollout from a few years back. Apple cost Meta billions by cutting off their data pipeline at the OS level, justifying it with a unilateral privacy moral high ground. Now, Meta is returning the favor…
Truly disgusting. Wish these corporations would find ways to screw each other over without also screwing over normal people.
Screwing over normal people and their rights is a feature, not a side effect.
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An offensive against Facebook is in order, then. If they're pushing war, then they shouldn't be surprised when they're targeted in turn.
But didnt Apple fire the first shot with ATT? Apple was never against ads (see ads.apple.com or numerous ads on App Store) they were against Facebook's ads.
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Snowden's story makes zero sense. Former CIA employee turned NSA contractor, making six figures, working remotely in Hawaii, one day suddenly decides he has a conscience, somehow gets laptops filled with classified documents, hands them over in the South Pacific to Der Spegiel and Glenn Greenwald, then goes off to Russia where he's lived unmolested for years, and his smokin hot girlfriend joins him and he's never fac…
yes and the earth is flat too along with the moon landing of course classic
I put down real arguments for my statements which I think are reasonable to argue. You appeal to the status quo.
I think the earth is round. I'm a "globe-head," but I have MAD respect for people who hold such a controversial viewpoint. I think they're wrong, but I've read a lot of their stuff and don't think they're stupid.
I'm 50/50 on the moon landing. You would probably be too if you actually looked into it.
The scientifically learned use to thing leaches and bloodletting was innovative. Many of the things we think of as being scientifically enlightened today will be looked upon with horror 200 years from now.
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It's the US, all you have to do is drive a truckload of cash into Mar-A-Lago and you'll get whatever you want.
Arabella Advisors is about the farthest thing from MAGA you can imagine.
Arabella Advisors provided some of the funding for Chat Control lobbying, alongside the Hopewell Fund, Oak Foundation, and Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF).
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#499It was even published by Yahoo lol [0].
0: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/reddit-user-uncovers-beh...
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#500Here's some more technical details of the Swiss new official way (yet to be implemented) of doing age verification and more: https://www.liip.ch/en/blog/swiss-eid-from-a-developer-persp...