Olives @olives@qoto.org

"After the study is completed, we will retain your anonymized data"

Some thoughts about studies involving sensitive subjects and privacy.

First off, as privacy activists know, there is no such thing as "anonymized data". Each data point can make it easier for someone to deanonymize someone.

That is just something to keep in mind.

If that is a worry, then for starters, someone could avoid collecting superfluous data, or maybe for something like an age, they could collect an age range instead of a specific number (unless, that precision is needed).

This reminds me of something I spoke about before. Maybe, it will lead to improvements in mental health (since there is science showing that).

https://nichegamer.com/discord-partners-with-roll20-for-dd-and-other-tabletop-rpgs/ Interesting idea.

When something that is supposed to be #privacy oriented insists on using Discord.

When someone pitches a feature which already exists as if it is new.

I see someone who got fired from Google, because she contributed nothing other than complaining about petty things, is back to complaining.

https://9to5google.com/2024/07/25/reddit-search-engine-block-google-deal/ Sounds like an anti-trust issue.

I don't like the idea of trying to censor "pirate sites" which are the only practical option for acquiring a particular bit of content for someone.

When someone breaks their own blog with weird JavaScript.

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-kosa-will-censor-the-internet-but-won-t-help-kids
Hey, you can oppose #KOSA here. #FreeSpeech #privacy

Useful human rights protective language is language which clearly and indisputably tells someone that x activity is allowed. No beating around the bush. Even if it might be "useful" now, who knows what someone might argue in 10, 15, 20 years. What stops a country from just ignoring it?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/calls-mount-principal-un-human-rights-official-business-and-tech-groups-address Frankly, stronger language than just "artistic" should be used to protect #HumanRights and #FreeSpeech. For instance, constraining it to real people (this is already sort of done but it shouldn't be an optional point).

https://qoto.org/@olives/112853953984247398 Also, see this post (which also references science to question arguments about porn being spooky and other such things).

https://reason.com/2024/07/30/majority-of-public-comments-support-descheduling-or-legalizing-marijuana/ Interesting.

Don't you hate people who clearly don't want to be on the fedi but do so just to complain?

https://reason.com/2024/07/30/texas-prisoners-are-being-cooked-alive-by-high-temperatures-investigation-says/
"Inmates in #Texas state prisons are being "cooked alive" by scorching temperatures in facilities without air conditioning, a new investigation claims. Documents obtained by The Texas Newsroom, a public radio collaboration of multiple Texas stations, showed that even as inmates died with body temperatures nearing 107 degrees, officials have continued to blame their deaths on causes other than extreme heat."
#HumanRights #EighthAmendment

https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1143913_future-fords-might-detect-speeding-and-report-you-to-the-cops
While I'm not a fan of speeding, I don't like the idea of a snitch network. Big Brother on Wheels. #privacy