• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    21 minutes ago

    I’m a lot more comfortable with people knowing what my genitals look like than most people are and yet even I draw the line well before insurers or law enforcement get a peek

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    6 hours ago

    People have been murdered for wearing glasses, please believe your minor social associations and opinions and thoughts can get you killed

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      5 hours ago

      The big thing that people always seem to forget is that there also doesn’t need to be a reason. People are weird and do weird things. To others, these weird actions are often interpreted as having malicious intent.

      Crimes will be manufactured. Enemies will be created. Just look at ICE.

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    8 hours ago

    How alternative medicine advocates target people right after diagnosed cancer

    How people who just lost their loved ones gets menorial service ads

    There’s legit moments you become emotionally vulnerable and if they knew they’ll definitely prey on you

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    8 hours ago

    surveillance is about datamining, and profiling to manipulate, control, and market. Not just market products and news but to lead the person profiled down a specific path.

    we are about to have the control of our life and world view completely taken from us moreso than what was done with the analog methods of media marketing and later organic digital era which we are in the process of leaving.

    it’s really what every ancient culture warned us about. this is the false god. you don’t need to be

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    8 hours ago

    Data fabrication is its own risk in this. Assuming we live in a society where a govt can argue it has all this information, they could make shit up & conjure the “evidence” to support their version. Because the apparatus is established as “we know everything & can uncover the ‘truth’”, they could falsify files, they could plant files on devices, and they could edit information at a grander scale than in the past. Flock’s financial backing is connected to a company that makes money from footage editing. If they establish, “Flock shows footage of reality,” while being able to manipulate it, then we’re all a deepfake away from being accused of shit we didn’t do. That’s like Black Mirror episode 1.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    That, and even if you’re not considered part of whatever targeted group the current regime hates today, it doesn’t mean they won’t invent a new targeted group tomorrow that just so happens to include you.

    This is before getting into all the false positive “identifications” of “criminal behavior” aimed at demonstrably innocent people e.g. as is already happening with the current Flock camera debacle.

    No government has any legitimate reason to surveil its own citizens, and if any such excuse is generated to justify it in the beginning it is guaranteed to devolve into a tool of oppression afterwards. Once you give up rights there is no reality in which any government will voluntarily give them back.