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  > stones in my fucking shoes it is then. Everybody says this... but I'm afraid it won't help or for very long. Gate recog algos measures physical characteristics. Things that are not changed by a shoe stone, like the length of your femur and tibia. The way your hips move as your leg does. Ratio of hip width to other measures. Things things are more fingerprint-ish like that. It's a lot like... how facial recog looks at distances between your pupils. Or the exact position of your...

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  > Tesla is one product among hundreds of consumer choices. Reminds me,... I have heard priv advocates propose a consumer label. Like we have nutritions labels on food products but for privacy. Their idea is, there are so many products. It is almost impossible for average consumer to even know how much data their car, blutooth gizmo, or smart TV collects. With a mandatory label, they could be better informed. Companies could even compete on it. Just like car co's first *removed*ed about...

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  > That was my little rant, please feel free to leave yours below in the comments; I’m somewhat desperate to hear it. I'm in the US. Lots here is commercial. Cameras are all over in most stores. Everything bigger than mom & pop tier and even some of those. Long ago, that was kind of okay. They were closed circuit. The video went to a literal video tape to be overwritten in 1-3 days. Now? It's unavoidable mass surveilance coupled to AI and cloud based analytics. The bigger chains...

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  I pay for Proton because I'm not tryin to protect myself *from Proton*. I think I could pay with a masked CC if I want. But I don't bother. That isn't part of my threat model. It might be for others, tho.

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  Article talks about cookies still being set when user opts out of those. That's bad, sure. But TBH I worry so much more about fingerprinting. Cookies, easy to delete in your browser, easy to block. Fingerprinting is done behind the scenes on the server, you can't block their attempt to. There are "resist fingerprinting" options in some browsers now like firefox, but limited in effect, and much of the fingerpinting is not even something the browser *can* stop. Things like [TLS...

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  Many of us know how bad modern cars are for privacy. Yet many of our friends and neighbors do not realize how intrusive it really is. I linked a blog entry from Mozilla’s investigation about car privacy. In that blog is a link to their make-by-make analysis. The amount of very intimate information a modern car collects is honestly appalling. It includes health data, real time mood information, weight gain or loss, and so on. And it does so even for passengers. The web has many resources talkin...