Privatnost i sigurnost podataka i korisnika

[tomek@vz]

The Social Security Administration's inspector general has opened an investigation into a whistleblower complaint alleging that a former member of DOGE – the Trump administration's cost-cutting task force led by Elon Musk – told colleagues he had copied two tightly restricted databases onto a thumb drive and planned to use the data at his new private-sector job. The probe has been disclosed to key members of Congress and shared with the Government Accountability Office, which is already auditing DOGE's access to agency data, according to people familiar with the matter and a letter from the acting inspector general.
The complaint has also been reviewed by The Washington Post, which interviewed the whistleblower, who filed anonymously out of fear of retaliation.
The complaint centers on two core SSA systems: the Numerical Identification System, or Numident, and the Master Death File. Together, they hold records for more than 500 million living and deceased individuals, including Social Security numbers, dates and places of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents' names – data that underpins benefit eligibility checks, identity verification, and fraud detection.

> Inspector general investigates claim DOGE engineer copied Social Security databases to thumb drive

A recent federal appeals court ruling has turned a routine software update into a high-stakes precedent for how consumers "agree" to the fine print governing connected devices, with Tile's Bluetooth trackers and their anti-stalking safeguards at the center of the dispute.
The case stems from a 2023 class-action lawsuit accusing Tile, its parent Life360, and Amazon of negligence for allegedly failing to design effective protections against stalking and other misuse of Tile's quarter-sized Bluetooth tags.
Plaintiffs say third parties used Tile trackers to follow them in the real world, and they argue the companies should have anticipated these risks given how the product works and how it was marketed. Life360 acquired Tile in 2021, adding the tags to its location-centric "family safety" ecosystem.

> Court says continued use of tracking app counts as consent, even if users never read the new TOS

[mkey]

I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills. The answer involves a company that profits from your data writing laws that collect more of it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comme...grants_and_45/

The privacy questions

I've tried to present findings here, not conclusions. But from a privacy standpoint:
Why does the company that profits from collecting user data draft legislation requiring every operating system to collect age data and broadcast it to every installed application via a system-level API?

Why do these bills mandate commercial age verification vendors (Yoti, Veriff, Jumio) whose business model is collecting biometric data, while the EU's equivalent uses open-source zero-knowledge proofs that reveal nothing beyond "over 18"?

Why is there no data minimization requirement in any of these bills for the age verification data itself? AB-1043 creates a persistent age signal API. Who governs what happens to the data flowing through it?

Why does Meta fund an advocacy group with no legal existence in the IRS system to push legislation that creates new data collection infrastructure at a layer below Meta's own products, while Meta faces zero new requirements?

Why does the company whose lobbyist drafted one of these bills write it to specifically exclude social media platforms from the age verification mandate?

If the goal is child safety, why regulate the operating system, which has no direct contact with children, instead of the social media platforms where the documented harm occurs?

[The Exiled]

RIP Discord: Self-Hosted Discord alternatives tested (TeamSpeak, Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix, & more)

[kopija]

Izgleda da ćemo i dalje bit u nedoumici dal nas špijaju il ne.
Šalu na stranu, svaka čast onima koji su kontaktirali svog EU parlamentarca VS tipkali tu po forumu.

[Neo-ST]

Autor kopija

Izgleda da ćemo i dalje bit u nedoumici dal nas špijaju il ne.
Šalu na stranu, svaka čast onima koji su kontaktirali svog EU parlamentarca VS tipkali tu po forumu.

Pazi ti u kojem vremenu mi živimo, kad se trebamo boriti za common sense, i onda tu pobjedu slavimo...
Žalosno. Da su ovo neka drugačija vremena, do ovoga ne bi uopće dolazilo, a bilo tko tko bi predlagao ovakve gluposti bi bio javno izložen uz pomoć drvenih stupova i malo užeta.

[mkey]

Ako povijest išta uči to je da ovakve stvari prolaze u više koraka. Pogledajmo samo par godina unatrag i porez na nekretnine i kako isti "nije prošao". To je stari tanac trokorak, dva koraka naprijed, jedan natrag. Kreneš agresivno, ljudi se nadrkaju, onda se povučeš, pričekaš neki treći događaj (najbolje neko prvenstvo) i onda ponoviš proceduru, ali drugi put znatno tiše. Ljudi dobiju dojam da to nije tako strašno kao prošli put pa je valjda to onda OK.

[Neo-ST]

Autor mkey

Ako povijest išta uči to je da ovakve stvari prolaze u više koraka. Pogledajmo samo par godina unatrag i porez na nekretnine i kako isti "nije prošao". To je stari tanac trokorak, dva koraka naprijed, jedan natrag. Kreneš agresivno, ljudi se nadrkaju, onda se povučeš, pričekaš neki treći događaj (najbolje neko prvenstvo) i onda ponoviš proceduru, ali drugi put znatno tiše. Ljudi dobiju dojam da to nije tako strašno kao prošli put pa je valjda to onda OK.

Ma znam ja sve to, sporo kuhanje žabe i sl.

[kopija]

Pitanje je samo vremena kad će pedofili opet napravit neku major gadariju koristeći enkripciju i to je to.
Niko neće imat muda glasat protiv po drugi put.
Treba neku peticiju pedofilima napisat da ne koriste više enkripciju

[Bono]

Autor mkey

Ako povijest išta uči to je da ovakve stvari prolaze u više koraka. Pogledajmo samo par godina unatrag i porez na nekretnine i kako isti "nije prošao". To je stari tanac trokorak, dva koraka naprijed, jedan natrag. Kreneš agresivno, ljudi se nadrkaju, onda se povučeš, pričekaš neki treći događaj (najbolje neko prvenstvo) i onda ponoviš proceduru, ali drugi put znatno tiše. Ljudi dobiju dojam da to nije tako strašno kao prošli put pa je valjda to onda OK.

Ulazimo u OECD I vlada je to prikazala kao velik uspjeh, a njihov komentar je bio duzi radni vijek i sad kad je uveden porez na nekretnine, sad traze placanje poreza po vrijednosti nekretnine.
Tako i ovo, samo treba uvesti zakon, a kasnije ces ga postroziti zbog xy razloga.

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[geronimo_2]

Placanje poreza na nekretnine (PNN) po vrijednosti je vec potvrđeno i to sljedi kroz 2g.
A ovce šute, jer ne razumiju sta to znači, ali saznati će :-(.

[mkey]

Ono što je uvedeno a ne valja valja izvest.