Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

So you have complex systems interacting with one another with no one engineer understanding how the systems work. It's possible that the engineers involved had no idea of the vulnerability when they wrote the code.
https://theintercept.com/2022/09/07/facebook-personal-data-no-accountability/

Staff in universities around the UK are pulling their hair out at the moment over a fuckwit racist government decision to bar students stuck overseas waiting on visa approval from attending live classes online.
Students in the UK are allowed to attend online if it's offered alongside face-to-face teaching.
How institutions administer this diktat is completely obfuscated.
Not to mention many involved in teaching will find it toxic to their ideology of removing barriers to learning.

When people say they have nothing to hide, let's reply:

* Post your passwords here
* Write down everybody you hate
* Tell the world who you voted for
* List all the videos you watched

- Medical history.
- Sensitive conversations with employers, children, spouses.
- Billing and banking information.
- Purchase information.
- Web search history.
And more...

I need privacy. Not because my actions are questionable, but because 'your' judgement and intentions are.

And it doesn't matter whether or not my communications are weighty or frivolous in nature - they are mine and only for those whom I've chosen to share them with. Not the government's, nor goog's, nor my ISP's, but mine.

Also, what is legal where I live today, may not be legal tomorrow and my discussion of it may incriminate my future self. It has happened in the past many times to others in other places.