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Everything about privacy (the confidentiality pillar of security) -- but not restricted to infosec. Offline privacy is also relevant here.

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Funny how, a decade ago, they called us “tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists” for suggesting such things and we were shunned by “respectable” folks in the web community afraid to lose their favoured status as Big Tech’s bottom feeders.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

@[email protected] I remember "The camera panopticon" from about that time.

Just then I had worked on a social network a couple of years before, and it was very clear to me that if you don't pay for a service, you may be a user, but you're not the client, you're the product.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] I hadn't seen it yet, glad you brought it back, can I use it in my lectures?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Of course :)

Here’s a more recent one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhzge9r6k4

And there are many others; please feel free to use any of them – https://duckduckgo.com/?q=aral+balkan+talk

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] I quit FB the day I saw this in 2014. Haven’t looked back since. Thank you Aral.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] I wouldn’t have that thing or anything like it in my house. I can’t remember if it was Brave New World, or 1984, but there was a device in one of those stories that pretty much is an Alexa. Having a mobile phone is more than enough monitoring already. I don’t even use shop loyalty cards for the same reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In 1984 I believe they used a camera in the tv to monitor peoples activity, been a while since I read that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I believe you're correct, but it has been 20 years since I read it myself.