[Anne Elk]

Some friends laugh because I assiduously avoid "linking" of my devices, "cloud" anything, photo and file "tagging", fingerprint and face device unlocking, and etc. to preserve, as much as practically possible, some privacy and anonymity. Privacy in this country? You have none. This NY Times article proves it. Google flags dad as criminal for sending kid's pics to the pediatrician We're expected to just go along for the greater good. It's outrageous that Americans go crazy over other "rights", but not this. One commenter to this NYT article asked, "What's the difference between perpetual monitoring of all citizens for potential crime and unauthorized wiretapping?" The most disturbing thing about this incident is that all of the victim's accounts, files, emails, you-name-it associated with Google were permanently blown up, even though LE had cleared him. The least they could do would be to lock accounts until the person is cleared and then restore them, but I guess Google just can't afford that. Probably Apple is no better in its own way. Europeans have more privacy rights than we do, and the tech companies are expected to comply. Even Canadians have more privacy rights in some spheres, than we do; e.g. I discovered in BC that property ownership is private info unless you have a "need to know". Here it's public record and if you need to protect yourself from a stalker, say, you have to petition the gov't for your name to be removed from the public record. But of course the aggregators have probably already captured you. Any of our NWH techie members have ideas about alternatives for (at least) more email privacy?

[cdestroyer]

encrypt emails using pgp I believe it is still available

[Randito]

If you believe there is such a think as privacy on the internet, you are bound to be disappointed.

[Anne Elk]

[zephyr]

[Cyclopath]

Photoshop has AI in it that decides if the picture of Mount Rainier you're working on for a trip report is money you're counterfeiting. That's been in place for 15 years or more. A lot of people were upset with this, because computers used to be slow, and they would spend more on better ones to use Photoshop, which wouldn't need as much power without the AI that has nothing to do with your photo of Spray Falls. I remember reading about Apple starting to do what the article describes. It sounds like the same as Google, they only do this on their cloud, not in your phone. It's kind of a weird distinction because a child molester can shoot the photos and not have them evaluated by turning cloud sync off. It's a shame Google won't let those people back in to all their data. If they used Android phones Google knows they were talking to pediatricians.

[Cyclopath]

[Anne Elk]

[CS]

We’re rebuilding China’s surveillance and reputation system, just far more sneaky since it’s private companies snitching and ducking the fallout. The thing that concerns me the most though is this continued movement to just solving for 80%, or even 99%. What happens when the key to a problem is in the last 1%? It sort of dulls down everyone to just track some not quite right solution vs the correct one, if not outlawing any deviations.

[Bosterson]

[FiveNines]

80% of the time, it works every time.

[Cyclopath]

[Cyclopath]

[Anne Elk]

[Cyclopath]