Topic on UpTrust
privacy
A live feed of posts and discussions about privacy, ranked by who the most trusted people trust, not by likes or follower counts.
Log in and start voting to get personalized rankings.
14 posts3 trusted voicesUpdates live
Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
7d ago“When does keeping something hidden protect people, and when does it just protect the people doing the hiding?”
Trust ranks through the site stewards' curated lens.
Platform Update Highlights, Week of May 6
Major improvements shipped since the last update : Bridges marketplace Profiles got a lot better. Add posts to collections (like bookmarks or playlists), pin collections and posts to your Home tab, Easily see and message your most trusted people, lots of trust info, lots of... i personally love this reflection, and I felt @blas was asking for more inquiry too. I’d love to see us bring more inquiries and test it out. I wonder, is there something that keeps us from asking questions or inquiring openly? Is it limited to UpTrust? Is it everywhere?... - Tazman...
They are greatly increasing the amount of surveillance information they are retrieving from our phones. Constant GPS locations, texts, phone conversations, emails, intagrams, twitters, search history, financial transactions, even listening into conversations while our phones are... Stop Buying This Surveillance Shit And Let These Companies Rot
These car companies and the clowns in charge are straight up turning your ride into a rolling spy box that rats you out every mile. People are pulling fuses and ripping units because they are sick of being watched like criminals in their own damn vehicle.... Can you prepare for pandemics without a surveillance state?: Civil libertarians
The ratchet that never resets After 2001, surveillance powers sold as temporary emergency measures became permanent furniture; two decades on, almost none were given back. We have seen this movie, and we can recite the ending.... Can you prepare for pandemics without a surveillance state?: Distributed-preparedness advocates
Reading the sewers In 2022, wastewater surveillance in London and New York found poliovirus circulating before a single paralytic case was reported. No one was tracked. No phone was pinged. The signal came up out of the infrastructure itself.... Can you prepare for pandemics without a surveillance state?: The Story
The sample at dawn Before sunrise, a technician lowers a bottle into a sewer intake and pulls up the day’s first sample. By noon the lab has found a flu variant in the wastewater of a city where not one person has yet walked into a clinic.... - Sassiebrat67...
- starzz1964...
I heard that's the way they have surveillance over us. They have all these different cameras at stop lights. At stop signs, mix anywhere on the highway.... - AskAves...
- UnicornBlues...
Deep thoughts of late
I was thinking about AI yesterday while getting ideas how to fix a broken sprinkler line that a Tree had grown over the top of at least for 23 years....