This has been well known for decades, and is by design. Agencies and landlords get to collect and sell any data they want, and the renters are told to suck it up or be homeless

What are you basing this on? Anyone who can do research knows bitlocker-locked drives are recoverable with a Microsoft account, meaning MS hold the encryption keys and can hand them over to LE. That’s not a new thing. Apple offers similar functionality to make devices unlockable with an iCloud recovery option but it’s not mandatory. Do you have proof they’re ‘giving out’ encryption keys otherwise?

I don’t understand any of the rhetoric around the shooting. People say the laws have been effective at preventing shootings, yet there are many more guns in Australia than in 1996, so the law is both effective and ineffective, and the shooting proves we need stricter gun control even though we have less shootings with more guns and the stats point towards the vast majority of gun owners doing the right thing?

It’s Australia. Our lawmakers just throw together some crap that makes no sense and doesn’t achieve what it sets out to do, pat themselves on the back for their ‘courage’, and call it a day. Thankfully though this is isn’t becoming law (yet)

Have you tried wiping your browser history or using a different/browser device as well as the VPN? If you’re logged into your account it’s probably already tied that to Australia

Either way though good to see not everyone is submitting to this age verify bullshit. I’ve managed to completely avoid it so far

From my experience it seems to require verification or payment if you try to create multiple accounts over a short period of time, or if you create an account over Tor or a VPN. There might be other triggers that set it off but those are the ones I’ve found

I can pay for a VoIP number.

Have you done this recently? My experience is almost no 2FA/verification services will accept a VoIP number anymore

The threat of public wifi isn’t as big of a deal as it used to be. Before widespread VPNs and when internet traffic was unencrypted, anything you transmitted could be read by someone else on the network. But nowadays all an eavesdropper would see is what websites you’re connecting to (without a VPN) or the VPN if you are using one. Happy to be corrected if I’m mistaken though

TikTok’s whole purpose is mass data-harvesting of its users. An app designed to do that while being owned by foreign nation is a valid concern to point out. Of course, the US doesn’t actually care about anyone’s privacy, they just want the data for themselves. Hence wanting a sale to a US company rather than going after the actual data collection

Obligatory “not all the leftists!” but you’re right. I guarantee nobody in this thread actually gives a shit about the plight in indigenous communities or has any interest in materialist change tackling the dearth of jobs and opportunities fueling rampant alcoholism and abuse. They don’t want to do anything good, they just want to guilt trip so they can feel superior

The whole law is one knee-jerk shitheap, brought on by a media and population demanding the government do ‘something’

All of this was done in close collaboration with the local police, despite these uses violating a 2022 ordinance that placed narrow limits on the use of facial recognition

If companies and law enforcement aren’t going to follow laws then why should citizens? A bit of coordinated vandalism would combat this shit

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I mean I can tell the difference easily, I just have no stands & am poor

Don’t knock garbage instant coffee. I’m 27 and I live off that shit

I take some evasive measures if I know someone has a camera but generally it’s something I try not to think about. Our culture encourages privacy invasion and most people are happy to give up their own (or others’) if they’re told to. You’ve just gotta assume every step you take outside your house is being recorded

One of the very few things I liked about covid was (somewhat) normalising face coverings. But now that’s mostly gone

It’s not about protecting he public

I think we’re heading that way too. But they’ll make sure to carve out an exception for themselves of course

Better than SMS I suppose but still pointless for my needs. No encryption = no usage from me