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[–] freedickpics@lemmy.ml 9 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

See people here want gambling ads banned, but the PM has ties to gambling lobby groupa so the gov won't touch it. But when it comes to laws nobody wants like giving cops more invasive surveillance power the government can suddenly expedite them at record speed. We live in a fake democracy

[–] freedickpics@lemmy.ml 5 points 16 hours ago

It was also the brainchild of an unelected American with CIA ties who for some reason gets to decide what we can and can't see on the internet under the guide of eSafety

[–] freedickpics@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago

Membrane because I'm poor

[–] freedickpics@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 days ago

I get where you're coming from but it was all the result of user requests. People were asking Proton to make more services and apps for years

[–] freedickpics@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago

Not that I was planning to visit the US anyway but I guess this seals it

[–] freedickpics@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

They'll probably treat having no social media as suspicious even if it's true and deny you entry

 

This is something I've been thinking about for a while. I've decided to get a Pixel with GrapheneOS as my next phone and I'm trying to decide the pros and cons of putting a SIM card in it. Convenience vs privacy, public wifi with a VPN vs using phone data, etc.

I can't get a SIM card where I live without ID and I'm looking to reduce being tracked as much as possible. Does anyone else do the same thing?

[–] freedickpics@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

And I'm sure if citizens do anything to remove malware on their devices they'll be criminally charged too 🤡

[–] freedickpics@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 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

 

With the UK apparently floating ideas of a VPN ban it's got me worried about the future of anonymity online. Now people have already pointed out that a VPN ban doesn't make sense because of all the legitimate uses of one and wouldn't even be enforceable anyway, but that got me thinking.

What if governments ordered websites (such as social media sites) to block traffic originating from a VPN node? Lots of sites already do this (or restrict your activity if they detect a VPN) to mitigate spam etc. and technically that wouldn't interfere with "legitimate" (in the eyes of the gov) VPN usage like logging onto corporate networks remotely

It's already a pain with so many sites either blocking you from access or making you jump through a million captchas using VPNs now. I'm worried it's about to get a whole lot worse