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I want to believe there are a lot of people in Hungary who oppose Orban. Maybe the majority at this stage. Kicking them out would be devastating for their hope of better days.

The EU needs better mechanisms to contain bad faith members. It can already restrict funds. They need a mechanism to pass over one member’s veto.

Is that what you’re referring to? https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-facial-recognition-glasses These people have no ethics and no moral code. They know we’ll hate it, so they want to sneak it!

Years of privacy violations going deeper and deeper under pretend of “progress” and “pRoTeCt the cHiLdReN”. I am glad that people started rebelling against Flock, and some removed their Amazon cameras following the Superbowl’s ads, but that’s not even close to how much we should be mad at these mass surveillance actors.

Not sure the lemmy crowd is representative of the general public trends.

Oh I’m perfectly aware this is most likely a chain of pressure and responsibility dodging:

• the top demands more users more active,
• the bottom develops some solutions they demo while refusing any responsability for its impact.
• Some middle pressed to meet demand while having only one solution available at the time eventually decide to deploy it, maybe “temporarily”.

Oh they absolutely know. Zuck’s Meta is on trial right now not only because Instagram creates an addiction for kids, but because it was made delibarately, on purpose. Kids addictron was the goal.

They’ve always known. They just don’t care for the rest of humanity.

Pretty sure they won’t care except if it ends with a multi-billions$ fine. The intent is that by the time, their “smart-glasses” are everywhere and banning them no longer seems reasonable.

So they’ll settle for “privacy settings by default”, meaning they commit to not record anything except if the user expilicitly activate it, and it should be very visible for people around.

They’ll wait a good 6 months before an update introduces back a silent auto-record of some kind, because that company never gave a flying fuck about the law, its users or basic decency.

Let’s just hope pissing off the judge on mïnute 1 may get them uncomfortable about the rest of the trial.

That, the coming war against VPN in other states and countries, … Can’t we cut through all these baby steps and get straight to a 1984’s telscreen mandatory in all rooms?

Oh come on! Think about all the domestic violence’s victims!

Pretty sure ~30% will still answer he will use that better than any UN org for the world’s best interests.

Plan A is certainly staying in power, absolute power, in the US.

Plan B might be escaping prosecution for corruption, pedophilia, rape, … but still with a bigliest bank account.

No. As long as the base remains opensource (AOSP), they can remove the bad parts. Graphene has made numerous contributions to AOSP, I’m confident they can manage that. And if the user base growths, I hope their fundings will follow.

It would be a good thing for the world if AOSP was forked with big resources behind an open project with an open governance. But that needs lot of resources.

All four sections carry a penalty of imprisonment for not more than five years, although § 1001 is punishable by imprisonment for not more than eight years when the offense involves terrorism or one of several federal sex offenses. The same five-year maximum penalty attends the separate crime of conspiracy to commit any of the four substantive offenses.

Even 1 year in jail should be a good enough incentive, if only he could not buy his way out.

Agree, but since he stated multiple time that all cars since xxx years were hardware capable of L5 self-driving next year (no need to precise the year, the statement is repeated every year), adding LIDAR now would be opening the way to a major class action. So he painted himself in a corner, and like all gigantic-ego idiots, he doubles down every time he’s asked.

In any other country, I would agree. In the US, you’re guaranteed they will privatize the shit out of it until it’s costly, inefficient, unreliable, but someone became a billionaire.

And you’re absolutely certain they don’t sell the data back to US brokers or even authorities directly?

The DMCA has a section that says (high level) it is illegal to circumvent a technological protection measure that protects copyrighted materials. DMCA was used for years to prevent farmers from repairing their John Deere’s equipment themselves. They only got that 2 years ago after a legal battle. So the question is: can a fancy screw be considered a TPM?

That would be circumventing a protection mechanism. Isn’t that a violation of the DMCA in the US?

The most appalling thing is the advertisers and whoever approved this live in a bubble where people are ok with massive surveillance, and don’t imagine people will freak out when they see how Amazon can watch them. At least Meta knows their users hate them but are hostages of their network, that’s why Meta buys or crushes competitors before they become too big. I’ve not seen that since a Ford’s VP bragging about how much Ford will know absoltuely everything you do with “your” car (is it really?) and backpedaled live as he realized journalists were horrified. That was a long time ago. Today it’s common.

It’s still a payment system. You need banks and shops to get in. In practice, you would have to wire money from your bank account to the Taler wallet.