masks have become socially accepted and even mandatory in some cases.
Before these measures and changes that COVID brought, I considered to use a mask in public, but the fear of being halted by the police or even social discrimination has made me think twice.
Now I use a mask everywhere, not mostly because of COVID, but for privacy reasons.
I am wondering if in the future masks will be discouraged or forbidden in some places to allow people to be identified through security cameras, despite COVID or after this scare wares off and the next one comes in to play.
Am I f’ed in the head?
P.S. - Some of these links are in Portuguese. I can provide context if anything becomes lost in (google) translation.
I think I expressed almost the same sentiment a year ago; @fabsh even read it out on the podcast, IIRC. His reaction was along the lines of “dude, you need to fix your government anyway, masks or no masks”. He had a point, of course, but I remember chuckling and thinking to myself: “Alright, we’ll have this discussion when Europe throws the citizens’ privacy rights down the drain, too, as they’re obviously headed that way”.
While I do agree that almost all of our governments are taking extraordinary measures to spy on us, I did get a little smile today when I read that my provinces privacy commissioner issued a second order to Clearview AI to stop collecting our data and to delete the data they had already collected on us. I don’t think anything will actually come from this, other than that smile.
I think that one of the best ways that it could be protected against is the simple attacks on the software. The people programing these things don’t know what they are doing. They are just finding libraries online and using them to sell expensive things to government. Like the whole log4j kerfuffle.
Case in point, you can trick most of the systems by labeling things. Because many are built on text recognition systems.
Better yet, having an image in an image messes with it, too.
But that is an inherent part of open source. Everyone also just uses the openssh implementation, and several others. Honestly, I prefer to use my own libraries when possible, but time and cost restraints often mean using something off the shelf. It’s a balancing act.
Oh, I’m love that open source is being used. I’m just advocating the exploitation of the poor implementation of that open source software/libraries. If we exploit it like in those photos, we can keep more of our privacy while others are without.
Yeah, but the downside with that is that it’s a cat and mouse game. They will eventually get better and then you’ll have to constantly struggle to defeat their stuff again…
I’m in absolute agreement with you there. I just like taking advantage of the loopholes while they exist. In the meantime, I’ll keep trying to get things changed.
In Delaware, USA, we have many issues. Right now, we are trying to get arrest powers back for the sheriffs. The Governor removed them unconstitutionally (according the the DE constitution, no US) and the court, that was largely appointed by him or his political party, just redefined the term public servant, literally.
There is so many injustices to fight. I’ll take the advantages where I can get them.
In Canada, our prime minister has gone on the news and stated that he is aware that he is stepping on our civil rights, but that he plans to continue doing so. And now there is talk of denying medical services to the unvaccinated, which I’m sure will be a legal nightmare, as all Canadians are required to pay into that service. We may need to study that impeachment section you guys have down there.
