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The teacher opens an app on their phone, holds it up, and takes several photos of the room. Within seconds, the images travel to a cloud server, where a facial-recognition algorithm detects each student’s face, extracts it, and compares it against a database of biometric profiles. The app LRCO Paraná returns a list of names. Students identified in the photos are marked present; those the system does not find are marked absent. For some students, a false absence is a bureaucratic irritation. For others, it could threaten their family’s access to welfare. In Brazil, eligibility for the Bolsa Família program depends in part on school attendance, and in Paraná such records are now largely generated by an algorithm.

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Cross posted from: feddit.uk/post/45797826 In a sensational turn of events in the fight against Chat Control, a majority in the European Parliament voted today to end the untargeted mass scanning of private communications. In doing so, the Parliament firmly rejected the error-prone and unconstitutional surveillance practices of recent years. Pressure is now mounting on EU governments to respect the MEPs’ vote and bury untargeted mass surveillance in Europe once and for all. Amendment 5, tabled by Pirate Party MEP Markéta Gregorová (Greens/EFA group) and adopted by a narrow margin, demands that any scanning of private communications must be strictly limited to individual users or groups of users suspected by a competent judicial authority of being linked to child sexual abuse. This aligns with the European Parliament’s 2023 mandate on the permanent Chat Control regulation (CSAR). Based on today’s mandate, trilogue negotiations between the EU Parliament, the European Commission, and the Council of the EU are set to begin as early as tomorrow. Negotiations are taking place under extreme time pressure, as the current interim regulation authorizing Chat Control expires on April 6. The EU Commission and the vast majority of the EU Council—except for Italy—have so far categorically rejected any restrictions on untargeted mass scanning. Digital freedom fighter Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party) commented on the historic vote: “Today is a sensational victory for the countless citizens who made calls and sent emails to save their digital privacy of correspondence. Digital privacy is alive! Just as with our physical mail, the warrantless screening of our digital communications must remain taboo. EU governments must finally realize that true child protection requires secure apps (‘Security by Design’), the removal of illegal material at the source, and targeted investigations against suspects with a judicial warrant—not overreaching, pointless mass surveillance.” The Hard Facts: Why Chat Control has failed spectacularly Continue reading here - patrick-breyer.de/…/historic-chat-control-vote-in…

I’m a privacy focused individual, I run GrapheneOS on my phone & self-host as much of my tech stacks to avoid sharing info with. I’m looking for recommendations of smartwatches that align with the ideals of this community. What watch do you use? What do you recommend?

…by physically removing a port (who would do that) or using the software?

I was checking a friend network over Tor and I was curious about the country that would show in his logs so I checked where my exit node was from… It got me thinking, it’s well known most exit nodes are in the hands of governments, so people deep in OpSec using Tor network, do they check if the exit node they are using is not in a 14 Eyes country (or other places depending on their threat model)? And if this is a practice, do you believe countries controlling exit nodes for intel and surveillance might actually be connecting their nodes to servers in other unsuspecting countries, VPN-like, just to not reveal that node is actually feeding data to their country?

Are conservatives & libertarians really ok with the surveillance state they voted for? I suppose as long as “those people” are being targeted. #surveillance #SurveillanceState #privacy #GovernmentDataPractices #uspol #ice #dhs #ThomsonReuters #WriteYourRep https://www.startribune.com/ice-crackdown-thomson-reuters-eagan-license-plate-data-westlaw-clear/601583754

I have been using it for more than a week and now am worried about the consequences that I am not sure are true or not! I am worried that by allowing random users to surf using my network to prevent surveillance, someone will use my address to do malicious things, and I will get into legal consequences. Also, what if many services blacklist my IP address so eventually I get a lot of restrictions in my browing experience. Furthermore, will this extension increase my fingerprint? Are these thoughts valid, or am I just overthinking? If anyone knows, please comment.

What the title says. I’m trying to discern if using a number acquired and served through JMP for phone and text, versus a mobile carrier, provides a better data security and privacy experience. On the one hand I wouldn’t be subject to the almost yearly data breaches that a number of the carriers experience, nor their potential snooping. However on the other, I’m not sure if using JMP provides any increase in privacy or security on that front?

To nie jest reklama ani toot sponsorowany. Właśnie przelałem 12 euro na obsługę Posteo na kolejny rok. Jest to najlepsza skrzynka pocztowa z jakiej korzystałem. Absolutnie bezproblemowa (w trakcie roku zanotowałem raptem raz downtime), praktycznie bezobsługowa. Prywatność out of box, możliwość wyłączenia folderu ze spamem. Kalendarz plus kontakty. 4 GB pamięci na skrzynkę (dla domowego usera wystarczy). Myślałem o powrocie na Onety/Interie, ale przy pierwszym trzeba płacić za dostęp przez Thunderbirda, przy drugim zalew reklam (a pewnie wkrótce też trzeba będzie zapłacić), zaś ich płatne wersje są gorsze. Perspektywa powrotu na GMaila mnie brzydzi (zero prywatności plus brak "czystego" adresu). Perspektywa powrotu na Outlooka również (wciśnięty Copilot, w miarę czysty adres ale bardzo agresywny filtr antyspamowy). Zastanawiałem się nad Mailbox.org, ale nie potrzebuję 15 GB w cenie 3 euro miesięcznie - tu mam euro za miesiąc. Krążyło mi po głowie założenie sobie skrzynki na własnej domenie, ale sobie pomyślałem: po co? Posteo spełnia moje potrzeby, adres jest łatwy do podyktowania, chyba tylko raz pani w biurze dostawcy Internetu zdziwiła się co to za skrzynka. Polecam, rzekomo są ekologiczni no i pracują na Linuksie. W tym wypadku spokój kosztuje euro miesięcznie. #posteo #emailprovider #privacy

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cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/60387352 cross-posted from : lemmy.zip/post/60387297 Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data for defendtheatlantaforest@protonmail.com — the account linked to Stop Cop City protests in Atlanta. The FBI obtained this information through a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty request on January 25, 2024, identifying the activist behind the anonymous account through their credit card identifier.

“When you create a law, you have to think about what a future government could do with those powers." Ministers would have unilateral powers to lock what they see as 'harmful' behind digital ID checks. This could end up being used on LGBTQ+ and reproductive health content. 🗣️ ORG's James Baker. https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-eyes-sweeping-powers-to-regulate-tech-without-parliamentary-scrutiny/ #onlinesafety #digitalid #privacy #freedomofexpression #ageverification #ukpolitics #ukpol