Comment Here's the web site (Score 1) 84
https://deflock.org/
Note: the www address seems to not work
Comment Re: (Score 1) 84
Usage of Flock cameras is almost certainly a violation of the 4th amendment.
But the violation of the constitution is just the beginning of the problems with Flock. The abuse of the data by cops and the lax security by Flock should be concerning to all citizens.
Handing it off to a private company seems to be their constitutional workaround.
Present administration like workarounds.
Comment Unencrypted? (Score 3, Insightful) 74
This kind of stupidity has me strangely on the side of Netflix.
Why would you put all of your IP on an easily-stolen drive?
Comment Re:Sure but Siri is a dumpster fire (Score 1) 128
Siri's poor comprehension and general utility used to be a funny joke but it's gotten to the point where I'm questioning my longtime iPhone use
Worst reason to buy an iPhone in the first place. Siri? Who gives a shit?
Comment This 'climate change,' it's the greatest con job (Score 1) 111
The president of the usa claims "This 'climate change,' it's the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion".
There, folks, is the single greatest reason for the mess we find ourselves in. And its going to get worse - much worse - for at least two more years.
Comment We humans are obviously fucked (Score 1) 192
When we award degrees for something so banal and trivial, you can be certain that the end times are near. And deservedly so.
Comment Re:If he is found guilty (Score 1) 180
If they never got into the phone, how do they know there was evidence on there? How could they proved he wiped evidence if they had no clue what might be on there?
Exactly. Maybe he just bought the phone? Used?
Lack of evidence is a lack of a case.
Comment Agree, mostly (Score 1, Troll) 84
The more we ban these devices and make them socially unacceptable, the sooner this bug will be squashed.
But, like others I don't see why the "perv" label applies here. Whatever happened to plain old "glasshole"?
Comment Re: (Score 1) 144
Social media is addictive, and part of growing up to be an adult is to learn how to avoid addictions. Either the addictive power of social media is so strong even adults of sound mind cannot resist (e.g., heroin) or its a skill everyone must learn. How are children supposed to learn it if they are coddled by laws that outright ban it? At the same time banning drugs to protect kids is one thing, but banning speech? That is very novel and new territory. I read the Anxious Generation, and it is very compelling, but I also have kids, and you cannot raise kids that grow up to be healthy adults by relying on nameless government agencies to create a reality distortion field, that actually sets them up for failure. Just like with avoiding ice cream, not getting enough exercise, or watching too much Netflix (also disastrous for health but not being banned...) getting sucked into a social media self-validation loop needs to be taught, not banned.
I grew up before social media existed, yet find myself very capable of resisting it.
Comment Found it (Score 1) 96
Comment Same for LPs (Score 1) 96
I read an article a couple of weeks ago about how millennials are buying vinyl but most don't own turntables.
Comment It won't be long (Score 1) 19
Until France, England, or another 'european' country tries to outlaw VPNs.
Russia, already I know.
Comment See the movie (Score 3, Informative) 157
"Her" is a cringe-inducing movie that hit a bit close to home.
Not a *great* movie, but one that explores this concept deeply.
With a great twist at the end.
Comment *Ahem* Hannah Arendt (Score 1) 87
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any?
You see what's happening here? We can't believe either side...
Submission + - Californians sign up to have data brokers delete their personal information (eastbaytimes.com)
ZipNada writes: More than 300,000 Californians have demanded that hundreds of data brokers erase information about their locations, finances, health and personal lives as the state’s first-in-the-nation Delete Act requires brokers to start the mandatory process of removing data on Aug. 1.
Brokers must start accessing deletion requests within 45 days after Aug. 1, then once they have collected those requests, they have another 45 days to report what data they have purged to the agency — known as CalPrivacy — and people who have signed up. ...
The information Californians are asking brokers to erase can be extraordinarily sensitive. Of the nearly 600 data brokers in CalPrivacy’s registry, 110 sell people’s precise locations, the registry shows. More than 40 sell identity data that can include Social Security numbers. Almost 70 sell information on people’s gender identity. Seven sell data related to reproductive health, and six sell information on union membership. Eighteen sell minors’ data — and Kemp said children can sign up for deletion using DROP, or parents can do it for them.
Many of the brokers build — and sell to advertisers and marketers — dossiers that are increasingly processed using artificial intelligence to draw conclusions about a person’s interests, family, politics, lifestyle, finances, sexual orientation and health.
Brokers must start accessing deletion requests within 45 days after Aug. 1, then once they have collected those requests, they have another 45 days to report what data they have purged to the agency — known as CalPrivacy — and people who have signed up.
The information Californians are asking brokers to erase can be extraordinarily sensitive. Of the nearly 600 data brokers in CalPrivacy’s registry, 110 sell people’s precise locations, the registry shows. More than 40 sell identity data that can include Social Security numbers. Almost 70 sell information on people’s gender identity. Seven sell data related to reproductive health, and six sell information on union membership. Eighteen sell minors’ data — and Kemp said children can sign up for deletion using DROP, or parents can do it for them.
Many of the brokers build — and sell to advertisers and marketers — dossiers that are increasingly processed using artificial intelligence to draw conclusions about a person’s interests, family, politics, lifestyle, finances, sexual orientation and health.
