Flock cameras can also pickup conversations of people passing by, let alone the massive amount of other privacy concerns with these being owned by third party companies and how extremely easily hackable these cameras are.

IMO, I don’t see how people in Toronto can support these cameras, especially since Ontario in general had speed cameras removed, and those as far as I know were police operated.

TBH it would probably make more sense to install the speed cameras back, those only captured photos as opposed to 24/7 recordings.

Some links that you might find useful:

Find locations of flock cameras: https://deflock.org/

How hackers can use flock cameras to monitor and stock neighborhoods:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo

Video that is worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ

Edit: Went down a rabbit hole.

Toronto’s speed cameras were owned, operated, and maintained by Verra Mobility (specifically through their subsidiary, Redflex Traffic Systems (Canada) Limited). This is a Arizona-based company. While the City of Toronto selected the locations and processed the tickets. I can’t seem to find any clear info on how the data was processed or how the system was secured.

And simultaneously they’re lazy and don’t work, and have also taken all the jobs.

Fossify Messages is my go to for now.

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fossify.messages

On top of all the other problems data centers bring to communities, one should be aware that datacenters also can behave like ike acoustic weapons.

This video is worth a watch if you are interested in knowing a little more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo

I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.

The question is do they have a Copilot?

Windows 11 is a hot pile of garbage. Windows 10 was a “better” choice TBH

Its got what humans crave?!

Me checking in

TickTock is fine though right?

Who goes to prison now when a kid is found to be using social media?

And now what counts as social media? Is it only Facebook, or does it include things like WhatsApp, Mastodon, Instagram, Bluesky, Lemmy, a blog or chatroom?

So how would any proposed laws be enforceable without some sort of ID verification (ie. Age verification) in place?

Or are we talking a simple “confirm you’re not a robot button”, but for age? Similar to what porn sites have asking if you’re over 18.

Or would you prefer everyone including yourself need to upload something like a drivers license to access websites… Like Lemmy for example?

Simple home router Whitelist enacted through a parental control setting.

Completely “local” and no personal information is given to a third party website.

Now the question is could we create a job/field were the persons responsible would curates and classifies each website? They could classify based on ages, genres and other useful tags.

What could we call these creators of information?

I don’t see how uploading a picture with my personal information to every website I visit would be a solution to this through. Now what about enthusiasts that want to host a website for a blog (like myself) do I need to start to collect your personal information when you choose to visit my website? What will I be able to do with said information?

Instead a simple solution would be something similar to what libraries and librarians do.

Websites should be classified based on age brackets, genres, and any other useful identifying information similar to how books are classified in libraries.

I would propose that a local government funded initiative be setup that to allows the same equivalent of a librarian to curate the internet into defined whitelists based on these criteria.

From there parent then can choose or not choose to activate these specific whitelists either at the home network level or device level.

All this tech already exists, and for tech-savvy users, this functions basically the same way as a pihole or AdGuard, these can also be completely setup both in your home network and still function while out.

Or you know, you can let parents take care of their own kids. Stop telling me how to parent my own kids in my own house!

Also obligatory reminder, consumer home routers have had parental controls for years. You can use these functions to whitelist specific websites for your children, while simultaneously block everything not on said whitelist.

On top of this, this is the most privacy respectful option as it means no third party is snooping on what sites your visiting, no one is collecting analytics, and no personal information is made available to said third parties to be hacked and compromised, ultimately protecting you from any identity theft.

On top of this this “same issue” was why TVs have had parental controls for ages. All a parent would need to do is choose to enable and block certain channels behind a passcode/pin for their children. And somehow this solution has worked without being privacy intrusive.

I love how these data breach articles never go into what the next step are that someone should/could do to protect themselves, or what the company is doing now to make sure customers are protected, and possibly compensated for any potentially repercussions of said breach.

Also who is ultimately liable for the exposure of said information, and as a customer could I ask a company to delete all identifiable information on me while still maintaining an account?

One option is to use a older version of TrueNAS until some alternatives start to show up.

I would probably keep my NAS offline so it does not phone home.

Here’s the link to Transport Canada’s (TC’s) website, it provides the same link directly to survey monkey.

https://tc.canada.ca/en/corporate-services/consultations/canadian-experience-vehicle-headlights-glare-night

If you prefer not to use survey monkey you can always send TC a email with comments directly

Send us an email If you want to send your feedback directly, or you are looking for more information, you can send your comments to MVS-SA@tc.gc.ca, make sure to include “Headlight glare” in the email subject line.

That can be installed on any hardware, as opposed to just a TV directly. That I could get behind.