Olives @olives@qoto.org

Evil vending machine scandal making the rounds, lol. It is troublesome though that it has a camera hidden inside it, and that it's recording people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_... I see someone completely missed this poem.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/23/vending-machine-facial-recognition-canada-univeristy-waterloo

"A malfunctioning vending machine at a Canadian university has inadvertently revealed that a number of them have been using facial recognition technology in secret.

Earlier this month, a snack dispenser at the University of Waterloo showed an error message – Invenda.Vending.FacialRecognition.App.exe – on the screen.

There was no prior indication that the machine was using the technology, nor that a camera was monitoring student movement and purchases. Users were not asked for permission for their faces to be scanned or analysed."

#privacy #canada #FaceRecognition

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/11/the-cultural-revolution-50-years-on-all-you-need-to-know-about-chinas-political-convulsion This is quite the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle Seeing someone coming up with grandiose (and probably harmful) fedi bureaucracies in their imagination reminds me a lot of this.

The anti end-to-end encryption suit which tries to lean on "deceptive practices" just shows that the government will try to lean, hard, on any tool they get, which is just another sign of why KOSA wouldn't be good.

Instead of making people prove whether they're human, maybe we should make them prove they are machines, lol.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080135/avast-security-privacy-software-ftc-fine-data-harvesting Avast fined for selling customer info without their consent and lying about it.

https://sahanjournal.com/business-work/amazon-coffee-machine-camera-surveillance/ Amazon coffee machine under fire for secretly taking pictures of employees in breakroom.

https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-group-looks-for-ways-to-overcome-court-ban-on-weakening-encryption E.U. working group apparently looking for ways around ECHR ruling prohibiting undermining end-to-end encryption.

https://edri.org/our-work/press-release-brussels-rocked-by-major-spyware-scandal-urgent-call-for-ban/ EDRi pushes for ban on spyware after politicians were attacked by phone hacking malware.

https://reason.com/2024/02/22/proposition-e-would-make-it-easier-for-police-to-surveil-san-francisco/ San Francisco police to be able to operate any method of surveillance for a year before review. San Franciscans have a chance to vote against it.

https://reclaimthenet.org/biometric-entry-for-major-league-baseball-games-is-becoming-more-prevalent Major League Baseball is scanning your face.

https://reclaimthenet.org/maine-school-backtracks-on-using-fingerprints-to-track-students School drops plans to fingerprint students.

https://reason.com/2024/02/20/nyc-child-protection-agency-uses-coercive-tactics-to-bully-parents-into-allowing-warrantless-searches/ Child Protective Agency coercing parents into allowing them to search their homes without a warrant.

https://reclaimthenet.org/facial-recognition-technology-to-hit-new-zealand-grocery-stores New Zealand's Privacy Commissioner helps grocery store to invade citizens privacy with new face recognition program.

#privacy

I see a troll who was banned from here is on his own instance now, how much time does he have on his hands o.O

Some commentators are pointing out that the bill is only passing in one of the two chambers it needs to pass in to become law, so this article might be a bit misleading.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/23/germany-on-track-to-partly-legalise-cannabis-for-personal-use-after-heated-debate

"Germany’s parliament is expected to partly legalise cannabis on Friday after a heated debate about the pros and cons of allowing easier access to the drug.

Under the new legislation, which will make Germany the third country in Europe to legalise the drug for personal use, cannabis would be removed from the official list of banned substances. Adults would be allowed to possess 50g at one time at home, and 25g in public."

I'm generally in favor of legalizing it.

When someone complains about porn one minute, complains about end-to-end encryption the next, and advocates censorship the next, that doesn't breed confidence in me that their argument that human rights concerns with undermining end-to-end encryption could be fixed with the so-called mythical government which never over-steps it's boundaries has much merit.

If you've seen an occasional duplicate post from me, that is either a bug, or I'm not sure whether a post has gone through or not.

Hmm... Despite those errors, the instance seems to be mostly functional though (and presumably, Dr. Freeman is going to fix those as soon as possible).

And the posts still seem to go through.

There was a burst of errors there for a bit, although it might be over now. Hopefully.