Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised

Post by snazz » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 3:34 PM UTC

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The phone backup is one toggle. The 30 individual ones are for syncing data for apps. If you aren’t using iCloud for any of this, why use it at all? I believe you can still use an iPhone without an iCloud account, can’t you? Without any cloud sync, I’m not sure what the value is, just sign out. I’m sure you’d lose the ability to download apps, but most of those are also using iCloud to sync data. For what it’s worth,…

> If you aren’t using iCloud for any of this, why use it at all? I believe you can still use an iPhone without an iCloud account, can’t you? Nope, You have to have an apple account tied to a physical phone number or you can't sign in on the device or use it at all and they opt you in to the 5GB free plan and yes, the 30 sliders is apps but that doesn't alter the fact that I want to be asked before they exfiltrate my…

Post by EvanAnderson » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 3:50 PM UTC

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It's an international coordinated effort to undermine every single citizen's privacy, an agenda being pushed for years, again and again in every country and state, by a coalition including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc., corporations that profit greatly from mandatory identity verification online. It's only a matter of time until they buy out enough politicians to push it through and force future generations to li…

I hate privacy, even down to the idea itself. I will buy out politicians, and push relentlessly until every trace of privacy is eliminated from the world. I love being watched. The idea of a panopticon makes me feel amazing and I want to force it on everyone until the end of time.

Post by hypercube33 » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 3:59 PM UTC

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I hate privacy, even down to the idea itself. I will buy out politicians, and push relentlessly until every trace of privacy is eliminated from the world. I love being watched. The idea of a panopticon makes me feel amazing and I want to force it on everyone until the end of time.

I'm reading your comment as sarcasm, but I do have a non-sarcastic hot take on it. If we have to live in a panopticon I think access to the data should be available to everyone. That eliminates the power imbalance and/or makes the idea of the thing distasteful to powerful people who might actually try to restore privacy and eliminate the panopticon.

Post by soopypoos » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 4:04 PM UTC

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they blocked a continent without seeking any advice?

Why not? That continent is not their target audience. It probably wasn't worth the effort to block foreign countries just from random unnecessary compute cost to serve a site to them, but when those countries start being serious about penalties you could face for serving their residents? Now it's justifiable to block non-US countries.

Post by bee_rider » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 4:10 PM UTC

potsandpans wrote: post #56

EvanAnderson wrote: post #53

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I'm reading your comment as sarcasm, but I do have a non-sarcastic hot take on it. If we have to live in a panopticon I think access to the data should be available to everyone. That eliminates the power imbalance and/or makes the idea of the thing distasteful to powerful people who might actually try to restore privacy and eliminate the panopticon.

> If we have to live in a panopticon... So that's where we are now? "If we have to live in the torture nexus, let's at least make it equitable"