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GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 18 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Like most things, you are not as private and protected as you seem to think you are.

That doesn't seem like a great argument for doing something that further reduces privacy and protection.

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  • [–] -4 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    That doesn’t seem like a great argument for doing something that further reduces privacy and protection.

    The point is that, without third party verification (which I am vehemently opposed to), it changes absolutely nothing. So it is just people whining about "freedoms" they don't even have.

    And... there actually are arguments that it is good to tear down the security/privacy theatre so that people can make informed decisions and understand their actual exposure and risks.

    A good example of this is that I am REALLY happy that we, as a society, have seen a drastic shift between calling things "Private Messages" and instead calling them "Direct Messages". The former implies that only you and the recipient can see them. The latter does away with that and people rapidly learn (and communicate) that site owners and often mods can see everything you send along those avenues.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Semantics

    Privacy is a human right and I have a choice to who an d which third party collects my data. My own computer with software I build myself doesn’t need mandated age gates.

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  • [–] -2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I have a choice to who an d which third party collects my data.

    Only if you actually understand what information you are and aren't exposing about yourself in your every day activities.

    Which... yeah, does really feel like understanding the meaning of a text/concept. So... spot on?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    can't expose what doesn't exist. if a site asks for age verification, stop using it and find a alternative that respects privacy.

    your OS starts asking for your identity information, to share with everyone that pokes a open API, it's time to jump OSs...

    privacy is something you make a best effort to avoid creating obvious methods of exploiting. you don't share your credit card numbers with every email too, just because they say they cannot prove it was your card on file?

    identity is personal online, no one is entitled to it unless you choose to share it. otherwise it's a invasion of privacy.

    want to protect kids? educate them and keep them off tiktok/social media by fining the parents when they are identified.

    fined twice? treat the kid like you would any other time a theft of service occurs.

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