US Government demands direct police access to European biometric data [pdf]

Post by survirtual » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 10:38 PM UTC

jolux wrote: post #236

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Yes, actually. - If you host your own servers you can still verify. - if you are using well-designed, human-centric software, untrusted servers (read: all servers you do not have control of / cannot audit) would not have any access to private data due to encryption, and clients can be verified to make sure decryption only occurs on the client side The trouble is, this kind of software is a poison pill to advertising.…

> would not have any access to private data due to encryption It's pretty difficult to fully scrub yourself of the metadata involved in making a connection to a server. For sure it can be minimized, like Signal does. But this has inherent UX tradeoffs that most people are not willing to make, like requiring you share your phone number to use the service, and not having server-based backup (yet, at least).

Post by 77pt77 » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 10:44 PM UTC

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> where US and Saudi systems did not communicate and resulted in known terrorists in Saudi Arabia being able to travel at will into the USA. I'm not even sure how to classify this sentence...

Naive.

Post by Aeolun » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 10:51 PM UTC

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> ToS is like HR: they both exist to protect only the company. This is, of course, not true about HR and yet another thing people just say to sound cool. HR’s job is to hire people and run your payroll and benefits. If you have a health insurance question are you going to avoid them because they’re going to fire you as soon as you look at them? No. If you’re a first level manager molesting a distinguished engineer ar…

Well, HR as any other power structure is to protect status quo. They will sack anyone if they see it necessary to protect the status quo. But more importantly, HR will create mindless policies to show you how powerful they are. As border force forcing your sneakers of.

Post by Aeolun » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 10:54 PM UTC

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I live in America and I'm not convinced that America has leverage over my country. The steering wheel on this thing appears to be broken.

Understandable position, but I think you should be aware that the US Government is capable of moving fast and decisively in rare but unpredictable circumstances. Only 44 days elapsed between 2001/9/11 and the passage of the Patriot Act on 2001/10/25. Things usually don't change that fast, but nobody can truly predict the geopolitical landscape even half a year into the future.

Post by EGreg » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 10:57 PM UTC

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We have had the Five Eyes and ECHELON for decades. Since before the Snowden revelations. How is this different? They don’t spy on their own citizens but they exchange info with the other spy agencies, so…

> They don’t spy on their own citizens Correct, that would be illegal. When NSA need to spy on an american, they ask GCHQ to do it for them and buy the data. Or buy it off a private company.