@cm0002@lemdro.id is just a super user. He semi automates his usages.

Bots are testing moderators again

unsure how this is privacy related.
capitalism has always been larcenous.

It's just an AI company's data being taken by another AI company, not personal info. Who cares?

Was T_T... A radical server network giving alternative services to individuals and collectives, similar to riseup, sindominio and other antifascist projects.

Is that the singer cause he's known to be an ass. Yes it is

They're probably referring to this recent story: https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/watch-florida-pulls-flock-cameras-201013692.html

Who designated it?

Trump did, of course.

Why? Because they stand for checks notes human rights.

I've never heard of this organization. What is it even?

Phones? Yeah 100%. And everyone has one so even if you try to deal with your own, others do not and there goes all your effort out the window. Pair it with even the most basic video surveillance and it literally has everything about you. Your habits, your locations, your contacts, all communications, hell it probably can even tell how fast you run, what you eat and what your preferred shows are. It even has a nice little camera to look at your face each time you check your phone.

It definitely makes it a lot less likely, since you need to have hardware exploits (or some Android zero-days), which are rare, valuable, non-trivial to exploit, and only accessible to a very limited group of actors (CIA, very proficient hacker groups), so these will not be wasted on just stealing your data...

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/08/designation-of-autistici-inventati-as-a-specially-designated-global-terrorist/

Advertisement has been datamining ever since Google and Facebook figured out how to monetize their markets and is at this point, old enough to drink in the US. Absolutely not something recent.

Nobody here saw anything of Apple's keynote a few days ago.

Several times my privacy-WTF sense went tingling off the radar. Those devices are the absolute pinnacle of privacy invasion.

love it

Oh don't worry. These tech companies pretty much all do this. If the TV's aren't listening and even watching us. It are our iOS and Android based smartphones and watches. Our in home smart cloud connected "security" camera's. Our 'smart' doorbells, fridges, ovens. Our Windows/Macbook laptops. Our cars.

We're already long passed the dystopian threshold.

The worst part is, the vast majority of people chose for this and socially shunned people that never opted in for this 1984 bullshit.

LG is nothing, last year Apple settled for spying on their users. Nobody cared. Facebook has been charged for this, multiple times, nobody cares considering the popularity of Whatsapp and Instagram to this day. Everybody goes wild about the new iPhone, haha, it's an absolute privacy nightmare that's spying 24/7.

LG is just a popular target now because they're Asian.

I’m a bit lost on this one. Who designated it? I’d never heard of it before this article. I checked the Sec of State terrorist list and it’s not there.

I remember Samsung did this on my TV with a talk function in the remote. This was a 2012-model. So it's technically not new that companies do this, but what LG has done here worries me.

I've got one myself now, but I live in bumfuck nowhere, and have blocked the MAC address for the TV. Got an HTPC connected it with Jellyfin and the whole shebang.

If you think degoogling your phone is going to make it not spy on you, then it makes sense you would target your remote.

It can't be a whataboutism. It's the same topic. I might've not made it clear but if you live in a house with wifi, your neighbor has wifi, your family or coworkers own phones, you go out in public really at all. This isn't going to be the one that's gonna move any needle, it is at best a feel good thing to do.

It's literally not defeatist. I'm saying there is an army coming and you are painting your nails to get ready for war.

It might look cool, might even help you have confidence to fight better. But it's worthless entirely especially if you live in a house or go to a workplace with people that have phones, own one yourself, have a wifi network or your neighbor has wifi.

Honestly these days, I don't think it's crazy to see data collection for advertising as spying. The same system that identifies your advertising demographic can also likely identify political enemies.

And in this timeline? I don't like those odds.

I know my efforts can never be perfect, but I don't think it's crazy to pursue as much as one can

LLM: Large Larceny Machines

I think they could even shorten it to DNT :)

Plot twist: no one will give a fuck anyway because the fines will be mostly on paper, and the lawyers LLMs of the biggest offenders will find a shitton of loopholes in the legislation.

Loved Disturbed until they signed the missiles meant for Palestine. Dropped Disturbed completely when DD claimed it's antisemitic to protest his concerts or to use their own messages to promote human rights.

I always thought they were anti-bully, but I guess they're just pro-claiming themselves a victim in any disagreement.