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BlackSheep@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m not sure there’s any way you could make a computer work that non-technical people would question, at this point.

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  • BlackSheep@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not technical. This is just common sense. Does common sense no longer exist? Geezus… 1984

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    • Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No. Common sense has been replaced by the constant normalization of tracking and personalized ads.

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    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Does common sense no longer exist?

      Yes. A government that’s out to get you is pretty much outside Western living memory, and people seem to think that their rights are a law of physics now.

      I wonder what the conversation about digital privacy is like in former East Germany.

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• SpicyColdFartChamber@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This just isn’t a problem for most people. They have different priorities or just don’t bother.

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  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Mostly the latter. Name a private thing, any private thing. most people will punch it into GoogleMetaX without skipping a beat.

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• Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Oh no, now there’s a video of my face somewhere”

  I’m not trying to be hurtful towards you, but I guess I’m pushing back in a general sense and you’re the comment I’m replying to.

  At this point, it’s 2025… Every single thing about you including 3D models of your face is in a computer somewhere.

  Look at the Luigi situation. Police tipped accidentally that they have advanced AI they’ve been using for a decade that we didn’t even know about.

  I’m kind of saying guys… like yeah on paper not a good idea to upload your video… But when you critically examine it, what has harmed you? Nothing, your face is everywhere. If you have walked outside one time, your face is on 100 video cameras. And it’s never being deleted from their server.

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  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Look at the Luigi situation. Police tipped accidentally that they have advanced AI they’ve been using for a decade that we didn’t even know about.

    Except that’s not what did it, and I suspect any such thing is shitty corporate bloatware. In the end, distinctive eyebrows and a good-old-fashioned snitch did him in. He wasn’t anywhere close to the radar before that.

    Privacy defeatism was already fully going in the days of MySpace. That should tell you a bit about how empirical it ever was.

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