Olives @olives@qoto.org

While it might be useful to keep track of how far someone has read in a thread, so as to allow them to pick up where they left off, I don't think there is a good reason for storing every post someone has read, and especially, not how much time they've spent reading each and every one.

Thought crimes: When I imagine someone flying out the window, when I'm really pissed off, that is the same as it actually happening, lol.

Thought crimes are such a bad idea.

If you think a few companies can be overly political, the government owes it's existence to politics.

When you see non-profits which call themselves "foundations", you have to wonder, if those are the foundations, where are the rest of the buildings? Lol.

https://blog.discourse.org/2021/04/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-a-giant-elephant/
#Discourse (a piece of software used to run online forums) appears to not only track what posts someone views, they track the amount of time they spend viewing them. This doesn't sound good for #privacy?

The UI / UX is fairly similar to NodeBB which we've seen around.

https://nodebb.org/blog/nodebb-1-9-0-worlds-first-gdpr-compliant-forum-software/ This is a promising sign, although I haven't looked far into it.

https://ccla.org/press-release/supreme-court-of-canada-rules-police-now-required-to-obtain-warrants-for-ip-address-access/
"Supreme Court of Canada rules Police Now Required to Obtain Warrants for IP Address Access"

"CCLA intervened in court to argue that an internet user’s IP address should be protected and that police should be required to obtain a warrant prior to getting access."
#privacy #canada

https://reason.com/2024/03/22/lawsuits-allege-michigan-sheriffs-colluded-to-end-in-person-jail-visits-and-price-gouge-families-for-calls/
"Two lawsuits filed this week accuse Michigan sheriff's offices of colluding with large prison telecom companies to end face-to-face jail visitations and then price gouge families who are forced to rely on expensive phone calls and video chats, in return for major kickbacks."

"the visitation bans deprive children of the ability to hug their incarcerated parents"

"However, criminal justice advocates and civil rights groups say these practices are also reducing one of the most effective and widely agreed upon ways to improve outcomes for incarcerated people: regular family contact.

And it's imposing significant costs on families."
#HumanRights

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/03/22/feds-ordered-google-to-unmask-certain-youtube-users-critics-say-its-terrifying/
"Federal investigators have ordered Google to provide information on all viewers of select YouTube videos, according to multiple search warrants obtained by Forbes. Privacy experts from multiple civil rights groups told Forbes they think the orders are unconstitutional because they threaten to turn innocent YouTube viewers into criminal suspects."
#privacy #FourthAmendment

A little birdie (well, quite a few people are complaining about this) tells me #PayPal has gone ultra puritan in recent weeks. That is obviously really problematic.

Could payment processors (and other platforms for that matter) please think about the negative consequences which being so wilful has on people whose livelihoods rely on you? Or people who are hit by waves of uncertainty and injustice which stem from you?

https://qoto.org/@olives/111888946356326887 Is this another opportunity to post a porn isn't bad science / knowledge pack...?

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/21/department-transportation-us-top-airlines-data-security-privacy/
"The U.S. Department of Transportation announced its first industry-wide review of data security and privacy policies across the largest U.S. airlines.

The DOT said in a press release Thursday that the review will examine whether U.S. airline giants are properly protecting their customers’ personal information and whether airlines are “unfairly or deceptively monetizing or sharing that data with third parties.”"
#privacy

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/eff-and-34-civil-society-organizations-call-ghanas-president-reject-anti-lgbtq
"MPs in Ghana’s Parliament voted to pass the country’s draconian ‘Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill’ on February 28th. The bill now heads to Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo to be signed into law."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/lucy-parsons-labs-takes-police-foundation-court-open-records-requests
"The University of Georgia (UGA) School of Law’s First Amendment Clinic has filed an Open Records Request lawsuit to demand public records from the private Atlanta Police Foundation (APF)."

"While the facility will be used for public law enforcement and emergency services agencies, including training on surveillance technologies, the lease is held by the APF."

"Beyond the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, the APF also manages the Atlanta Police Department’s Video Surveillance Center, which integrates footage from over 16,000 public and privately-held surveillance cameras across the city. "
#privacy #Foia

https://edri.org/our-work/privatised-municipal-surveillance-on-the-stage-of-security-theatre-in-slovenia/
"The municipally-owned CCTV company had sued the Slovenian Data Protection Authority (DPA) in order to block the release of municipal CCTV system data. But the ruling of an administrative court made it clear that making the CCTV system data available is in the public’s interest, not just because the system was paid for with public funds but also because the citizen have the right to know where and how the municipality is surveilling them."
#privacy #Foia

https://reclaimthenet.org/supreme-court-seems-sympathetic-to-nras-claims-against-new-york-debanking-pressure-case
"The case, NRA v. Vullo, brought by the National Rifle Association (NRA) against a New York official and alleging freedom of speech violations, has reached the Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) and, overall, the justices appeared overall sympathetic toward NRA’s claims.

The respondent to the NRA’s petition to allow the lawsuit to proceed, former New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) Superintendent Maria Vullo, is accused of influencing banks and insurance firms to drop the NRA."

"The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is representing the NRA, explaining its involvement as necessary to prevent the government from going after other groups in a similar way"
#FirstAmendment

There are a few reasons I use quote posts. One is that someone wanted more readily available context in my posts.