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[–] 48 points 11 months ago (5 children)
  • You have to hand over a huge amount of personal info about yourself & others to estate agents when renting a property - which they then sell to advertisers & you have no opt-out
  • Similarly, landords can require you to use a proprietary app for rent payments, which of course collects & sells your private data too
  • Burner phones are effectively illegal (telcos are required to collect & retain ID of every phone number they register)
  • Telcos and ISPs are required to collect & retain logs of all your activities for a minimum of two years
  • In some cities police can detain & search you & your property for no reason, and require you to remove any facial coverings
  • It's illegal to refuse to hand over passwords to cops (6 years jail is the max term I think)
  • Police can hack your device, take over your social media, delete or modify your data for an investigation, or survey any digital device if they "think it is likely to be used by someone subject to a warrant" (this particular bill was announced and then rushed through parliament in less than 24 hours to give the public as little time as possible to protest it
  • Some social media sites (including github(wtf)) are now required to age-verify all users beginning next month. Which will obviously lead to mass leaks & breaches of private data which the gov will turn a blind eye to

This is Australia. I hate it here

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Over the ditch here, New Zealand isn't much better and like many countries only getting worse. The insane amount of personal information that essential companies (e.g. electricity, property managers, etc) is getting out of control and our digital privacy laws are still in the dark ages.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    They want it all the data so they can sell well taking all your money. It's insane capitalism is broken and we the people should be revolting instead of just accepting it. If people only knew how much data they had on us.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Github is great but it's owned by Microsoft. If that alone doesn't dissuade you, their integration of their Copilot AI to speed up the creation of vibe-coded projects might. This latest change would.

    Luckily there is at least one FOSS alternative, codeberg.org. Its base, Forgejo, is self-hostable, therefore security is in your hands.

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