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archchan , to Privacy in FTC issuing over $5.6 million in refunds from Ring security issues
@archchan@lemmy.ml avatar

Remember the NSA director back when all the Snowden stuff happened? Keith Alexander? He joined Amazon's board of directors in 2020. Not to mention Bezos is a particular fan of the DoD and was on the Pentagon's advisory board.

Why anyone would trust Amazon is beyond me. And I don't like feeling so damn watched just for walking down a street with a bunch of Ring cameras. I can't believe it's so normalized to constantly watch your neighbors with a corps eyeballs.

possiblylinux127 , (edited ) to Privacy in FTC issuing over $5.6 million in refunds from Ring security issues
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

It pisses me off that so many people put cameras on there door bells

It kind of makes me want to go bonkers and have 12-14 visible CTV cameras pointing at the person to dares to come to my door (joking)

mjhelto ,

I mean, do it? No reason to announce it here, and no one will care about your plethora of cameras. Why would what someone chooses to add to their property be something that "pisses you off" so much?

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

Because I do not wish to be recorded

mjhelto ,

Then don't go on their property?

Empricorn , (edited )

Not everyone has the luxury of owning their own home. My apartment neighbor has a doorbell camera pointed directly at my doorway that activates every time I open my door to go to work, get food delivered, etc. Huge privacy violation, but our doors face each other, so I guess that's legal...

TexMexBazooka ,

Don’t go to the door then?

Empricorn ,

"Their property (and what it records off their property) is more important than your privacy."

Saik0Shinigami ,
@Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com avatar

https://www.videomaker.com/article/15619-recording-in-public-places-and-your-first-amendment-rights/

Yes. The First Amendment right supersedes any bullshit right to "privacy" in a public space. But that was never part of this discussion. They're complaining about being recorded walking up to a door. Which will 100% always be someone else's property and not public in the context of this discussion. So good job moving goalposts... even though that goalpost moving still doesn't change the discussion at all.

Empricorn , (edited )

They're complaining about being recorded walking up to a door. Which will 100% always be someone else's property and not public in the context of this discussion.

Why are you so angry? Damn. This is a privacy forum. So of course we want privacy! I'll even grant you that a person who owns their home is allowed to record and archive every single moment of every single person who visits (creepy). But not every person owns their own home. As I mentioned, I currently rent, as do about 45 million households in the US. That's the majority of all people under 35! So now that ownership isn't an issue, is my neighbor allowed to record every time I go to work, get food delivered, see who visits me and when, etc? Their camera is pointed right at my doorway and activates every time I open it. Legally maybe, but that doesn't make it right...

EDIT: Notice they'll downvote me, but can't back up their emotions with facts...

Saik0Shinigami , (edited )
@Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com avatar

I downvoted you because you believe you can discern my feelings over text. Tone over text is notoriously hard to figure out... And I'm far from angry. If anything I'm disappointed that so many people believe they have a right that simply doesn't exist. I do not make it a habit to respond to trolls who insinuate emotion when none is there to be divined.

I've also spend literally the whole thread proving everything I've stated. There is no "right" to privacy (outside of bathrooms and other private spaces [bedrooms as another example, but only in particular situations... baby monitors for example are not illegal] which is covered by law). There is an ultimate right to my own property... on which I install my cameras. Even if you believe you have a right to privacy, my rights to my property would supersede your rights on my private property regardless as you'd be committing a crime of trespassing at that point. Further we know that recording in public is 100% acceptable. Paparazzi use this right ALL the time. Including making a business on the matter of taking other people's images while in public. You are not special. You do not have some magic right to privacy when in public or on someone else's property.

The apartment scenario was not brought up initially and wasn't brought up until many posts down. It's irrelevant to the original discussion. But if you want to go to that point, I'd ask you to talk to your apartment managers. It's their property to define rules on. No-one else can stipulate if it's allowed or not. That's it. If they declare the hallway/breezeway "public" then your neighbor has the de facto right to have a camera present. If they setup some other rule, then they as the property managers can block their right to record. Here's a question for you though... Did you ask them to not record? Have you actually talked to your neighbor and voiced your concern in a reasonable way? They make kits to angle the camera 15-45 degrees off... you can ask them to install one of those so the camera doesn't aim directly at your door. I would venture a guess you didn't, you seem to have a hard time communicating in general as we see you do things like insinuate what emotions I'm writing from when it's never clear in a pure text form.

2 days later Edit: Notice they'll make a claim, and when forced to reconcile with their claim, they can't back it up at all. 2 days to respond and they didn't/can't. Can't even address the thread properly but has to go off on a wild tangent.

Saik0Shinigami ,
@Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com avatar

It pisses me off that so many people put cameras on there door bells

Does it piss you off when they have sex out of wedlock in their house too? How dare they have a shed in their backyard that doesn't match the HOA approved colors!

It kind of makes me want to go bonkers and have 12-14 visible CTV cameras pointing at the person to dares to come to my door

It's your property... do whatever you want. Hell adding all those cameras like that with no purpose will alert your neighbors to what you are... clearly looney tunes levels of crazy.

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

Is it to much be asked not to have my face analyzed when I knock on your door? I just want to talk to a person, not be photographed like an animal in a zoo

Saik0Shinigami ,
@Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com avatar

You have no right to privacy on my property (Exceptions being obvious things like bathrooms). If you want to "just" talk to me... then you hopefully already know me (otherwise that becomes soliciting/trespassing) and you would simply just text/call me.

So yes... It is too much to ask. As your complaint about cameras on my property and your supposed resolution of not having cameras on my property is depriving me of my right to do whatever the fuck I want on my own property within the bounds of the law. I also have a right and in many cases a duty to know who's on my property and for what purpose they're there.

Look... I'll meet you in the middle here. I have 6 cameras that cover 360 degrees of my house (focused on my property, not my neighbors). All the processing to identify cars, cats, and people runs on servers in my garage and the video footage is stored on my 400TB storage node. So I'm not sending your image to the "cloud" to be raped by some faceless big corpo. But what I do on my property is none of your damn business and if you don't like it... Don't come on my property. Just like I don't come onto your property and make demands of you.

kilgore_trout ,
@kilgore_trout@feddit.it avatar

Exceptions being obvious things like bathrooms

You arbitrarily decided what is "obvious". For me it's obvious for my right to privacy to be observed all the time.

I don't want my face to be sent to i.e. Amazon just because I am a courier delivering a package to your house.

Saik0Shinigami , (edited )
@Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com avatar

I didn't arbitrarily decide anything. It's literally the law.

Edit: If you need help figuring out why a security camera in the bathroom might be a problem. There's no helping you.

Also you clearly didn't read my post at all. On my system, nothing is sent to anyone except me. And as far as you being a courier. Choose a different job if it bothers you. I have a right to know who's on my property... and oftentimes even a DUTY to know.

Edit2: Also there's no such right as "right to privacy". Which I even called out in my post. You have no right to privacy in public or on someone else's property.

Juno ,

Someone dox this guy, he went in or space on the internet and now has no right to privacy anymore.

Saik0Shinigami ,
@Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com avatar

Lmao. Doxing someone vs passively recording someone on your own property is not the same and you know it. First off, doxing as a premise is illegal in most of the USA.

But I'm well aware that what I post on my lemmy instance is public. That's the nature of federation. But I will challenge that it's not your space. You're a Beehaw user. Not the server owners/administration. You have no "space" to call your own here. Keep in mind this thread actually lives on lemmy.ml. So you DEFINITELY don't have any rights to this space.

Much to that point... The beehaw/lemmy.ml admins could look at the logs and see my instance information including IP addresses and such. It's their property since I transmitted that data to them free and clear. Nothing wrong with that. And just like I posted in my post... I would hope they treat my data fairly like I do with my cameras. Which record to local storage. I don't put your shit to some random cloud if you walk onto my property. But to be frank, I'm willing to bet that your instance is already hosted in some "cloud". So Amazon or Azure (or whatever platform), already has the data. I'm probably treating people who trespass onto my property better than your instance treats your data. Let that sink in.

Juno ,

Get out of my yard!

Saik0Shinigami ,
@Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com avatar

But I will challenge that it’s not your space. You’re a Beehaw user. Not the server owners/administration. You have no “space” to call your own here. Keep in mind this thread actually lives on lemmy.ml. So you DEFINITELY don’t have any rights to this space.

Juno ,

I serve only one master, his name is Shayʾ Khulud

InternetUser2012 ,

Why are you knocking on my door? I don't want people knocking on my door.

Saik0Shinigami ,
@Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com avatar

Hell I have signs posted on my door "No Soliciting" and "No Trespassing". Guess how many people knock on my door that claim they're not soliciting literally in the next line to talk about whatever company they represent. Literally violating the law and my rights without a care in the world. But I'm supposed to care when someone has an issue with a camera I own on my property recording my own stuff. Pretty absurd.

Empricorn ,

It's not. The people are psychos...

neurospice ,

You're not alone. This isn't normal and you're not crazy for not wanting to be spied on just for making the mistake of going outside and walking past someone's house.

Saik0Shinigami ,
@Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com avatar

Oh man. You're worried about your neighbors cameras? Wait until you learn about all the stuff they put on traffic lights these days. If you're on just about any public road, or adjacent properties/sidewalks, you're ALREADY being recorded by the government. I wouldn't worry all that much about a random doorbell camera. That's just one data point. The traffic stuff can track you for miles. Hell... have an accident, your lawyer to subpoena the state for their footage. https://zaneslaw.com/blog/how-to-access-traffic-camera-footage-phoenix/

For example... https://az511.gov/

Businesses have cameras...

You don't have privacy out in public. It doesn't exist. What you're all advocating for is that property owners don't have a right to install security systems on their own property. Or to record events on their property/in public. That's just plain incorrect.

TheAnonymouseJoker Mod ,

Imagine being such a defeatist anti-privacy cuck.

Saik0Shinigami , (edited )
@Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com avatar

I mean... find me a country that doesn't allow you to install cameras on your own private property and I'll admit defeat. How about that?

Edit: and since you're already here moderator... How about you remove the call to action for doxing someone?

TheAnonymouseJoker Mod ,

Doxxing who? Is this not just a discussion? Your comment was reported yet not removed.

Saik0Shinigami ,
@Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com avatar

https://lemmy.ml/comment/10636070

Which is a call to action. A little bit down the comment thread.

TheAnonymouseJoker Mod ,

I did not know mocking people is serious instead of mere contribution to discussion. Is that not what you are doing with the whole defeatism thing? I did not remove your jab comment at privacy initiative, why remove their little jab?

Saik0Shinigami ,
@Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com avatar

So you also believe that you can determine tone from text. What I see written is a call to action. While context could appear to make it light-hearted, it's still a call to action. Very much akin to the "in minecraft" "meme" which didn't pass muster and got someone arrested. Seems odd that a "privacy" caring moderator would tolerate even a "joke" based on taking away someone's privacy. Jumping to the point of "let's dox this guy" from where we were in the conversation was not a normal step. Nothing about a camera on private property equates to doxing someone. Just because I see a mail carrier on my cameras doesn't mean I actually know anything about them. Jumping straight to doxing someone "as a joke" isn't even reasonable in context if you FORCE a light-hearted nature to the comment.

Nowhere in my "defeatism" did I write a call to action (and if there was one it would be to write your representatives if you're in the US to change the law) so I'm not sure why you're equating them. Neither did I actually claim actual defeatism. I'm all for privacy. I'm a huge advocate for it. Someone's right to their property is a completely different issue which is actually codified. Claiming that your right to privacy supersedes an actual right to property is a bit silly. That's not "defeatism".

Saik0Shinigami ,
@Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com avatar

Reporter: Eevoltic
Reason: trolling. they keep replying to every comment saying the first ammendment or some other US thing is more important than privacy lol

Imagine reporting someone for actually contributing to the conversation. Imaging thinking that other countries don't already have similar laws in place. Don't you wonder how security cameras are a thing for businesses across literally the entire world?

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0JP1OZ/

Just because I outline what specific laws the US follow to allow it doesn't mean other countries don't allow it either. This is not a US centric problem. I would challenge you to find a country that DOESN'T Allow you to record your own property. Or I suppose you can just cry to more mod-mail.

Eldritch , to Work Reform in FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes
@Eldritch@lemmy.world avatar

And this folks, is why despite not being perfect. We absolutely should keep the biden administration going. This and the NLRB ruling are some of the most earth shattering empowerment of workers and people in half a century.

No, it doesn’t make up for the missteps in Palestine. But the other option is for things to get worse in Palestine in the short term and beyond. But to also not have any consideration by our own government domestically either.

DemBoSain , to Work Reform in FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes
@DemBoSain@midwest.social avatar

It hasn’t been published yet. The Federal Register lags behind real life by a few days. Probably on Friday, or possibly early next week.

GladiusB , to Work Reform in FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes
@GladiusB@lemmy.world avatar

This is awesome. It looks to be effective immediately?

Atropos , (edited )

Effective in 120 days, unless it gets a legal challenge.

philboydstudge OP ,

Sorry, typo on my end! 120 days. My bad, I’m correcting the post.

Atropos ,

No worries! Thanks for the correction

Wiz ,

I can’t imagine there being a legal challenge! 🙄

half_built_pyramids , to Work Reform in FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes

Wow

NeptuneOrbit , to Work Reform in FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes

Except on very narrow cases, these have always been a sham. And in those narrow cases it should be an NDA and the onus on the business to actually prove proprietary info was divulged or a patent was violated. Sucks for the businesses, but the alternative was in many cases needlessly handcuffing so many employees

Ioughttamow ,

My personal opinion is that ndas should require the business to continue paying the employees wage and offering a benefits package as though they were employed. The wage should increase by a ramping percentage each year

xmunk ,

Actually important NDAs do this - they’ll just pay you to come in (or at least not work anywhere else) until the knowledge you had is irrelevant… and if the action that the NDA would prevent is legitimately damaging there do exist laws around corporate espionage that already cover these breeches. If you outright steal legitimately protected information from an employer (a common example is customer lists) and resell it… an NDA isn’t needed. NDAs have traditionally just been used as a scare tactic to contain information that isn’t legitimately protected… and, of course, to unfairly punish ex-employees for leaving.

slaacaa ,

I had an optional non-compete clause in one of my first jobs, but it was rarely activated by the employer, only for senior management and above. It also included payment for the period (iirk third of your salary for 2 years). In my EU country a non-compete without payment wouldn’t have been legal, not sure how it is/was in the US

whereisk ,

That’s the idea behind CEOs golden parachutes.

philboydstudge OP , to Work Reform in FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes

My personal highlight:

The Commission also finds that instead of using noncompetes to lock in workers, employers that wish to retain employees can compete on the merits for the worker’s labor services by improving wages and working conditions.

luciferofastora ,

Free market for jobs, how does that feel? Bet they're ecstatic to try the principles of fair competition for themselves.

protist , to Privacy in Alcohol Addiction Treatment Firm will be Banned from Disclosing Health Data for Advertising to Settle FTC Charges that It Shared Data Without Consent

Large scale “online therapy” companies are a pox on the therapy profession. All the therapists who work for them are made contractors, they pay poorly, and the turnover is high, so the quality to the consumer is poor. Between companies like Monument and Better Help and private equity buying therapy practices left and right, access to high quality therapy is harder to get than ever.

DoucheBagMcSwag ,

Just look at SWORD. insurance companies are now trying to have you do physical therapy in your own home via AI.

Scolding0513 ,

corporations are hilariously dystopian sometimes.

nulluser , to Privacy in Alcohol Addiction Treatment Firm will be Banned from Disclosing Health Data for Advertising to Settle FTC Charges that It Shared Data Without Consent

Wait. Am I reading this right? Their punishment for doing something that they weren’t supposed to be doing is just to stop doing it?

lemmyreader OP ,

In addition to the ban on sharing data with third parties for advertising, the proposed order with Monument, which must be approved by a federal court before it can go into effect, also prohibits the company from misrepresenting its data collection and disclosure practices and imposes a $2.5 million civil penalty for violating OARFPA, which will be suspended due to the company’s inability to pay.

They didn’t make enough money with this data selling to pay this fine ? Right.

Transporter_Room_3 , (edited )
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

You get a fine you can’t pay? Sorry that’s illegal. Jail or seized assets. If you have no assets, just jail and garnished wages. Good luck paying your fine on 23 cents a week (minus taxes)

This company gets a fine it can’t pay? “okay you don’t have to pay, just pinky swear you won’t do it again, now here’s a bailout go play with the other rich kids (and leave the poors to me cracks knuckles)”

Vendetta9076 ,
@Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works avatar

They spent it all on cocaine and hookers

Peffse , to Privacy in A Look at What ISPs Know About You: Examining the Privacy Practices of Six Major Internet Service Providers - An FTC Staff Report

Maybe I’m just not getting it, but if we’ve mostly transitioned to HTTPS and encrypted DNS… what exactly can the ISP learn other than the address they serve and MAC of your gateway? Is this report for those who use their ISP’s DNS?

baritone_edge ,

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  • Peffse ,

    I’m going to need a source on both those claims to better understand how they can happen.
    For an ISP to mitm, they’d need to sign and send the website certs themselves, and that’d show up in most browsers as a big red flag.
    As far as Facebook goes, I was sure that’s just javascript and tracking cookies that they’re paying websites to use. No mitm there.

    Outtatime , to Privacy in A Look at What ISPs Know About You: Examining the Privacy Practices of Six Major Internet Service Providers - An FTC Staff Report
    @Outtatime@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Needs to be outlawed. Ridiculous

    MediaSensationalism OP ,
    @MediaSensationalism@covert.nexus avatar

    In 2017, Trump revoked regulations put in place by the Obama administration that would have compelled ISPs to obtain user consent before selling their browsing data.

    Scolding0513 ,

    Fuck trump

    MigratingtoLemmy , to Privacy in A Look at What ISPs Know About You: Examining the Privacy Practices of Six Major Internet Service Providers - An FTC Staff Report

    Straight from the FTC? Very nice

    Rentlar ,

    Isn’t it great when the US’ FTC does something other than lick corporate boot?

    pdxfed ,

    Almost like presidential appointment powers matter! If only Democrats would have realized that before giving Trump 3 lifelong SCOTUS appointments.

    Sunny , to Privacy in A Look at What ISPs Know About You: Examining the Privacy Practices of Six Major Internet Service Providers - An FTC Staff Report
    @Sunny@slrpnk.net avatar

    Observations

    • Many ISPs in Our Study Amass Large Pools of Sensitive Consumer Data.
    • Several ISPs in Our Study Gather and Use Data in Ways Consumers Do Not Expect and Could Cause Them Harm.
    • Although Many ISPs in Our Study Purport to Offer Consumers Choices, These Choices are Often Illusory.
    • Many ISPs in Our Study Can be At Least As Privacy-Intrusive as Large Advertising Platforms.

    Oh how lovely…

    adespoton ,

    And this is why you never ever use ISP DNS, run DNS over HTTPS in the browser, and always use encrypted networking.

    And use VPNs appropriate to the activity, when appropriate.

    Oh, and never turn on ISP-supplied WiFi, as that gives them full access to the traffic from every device on your LAN, what physical hardware you own, and even where it is located in your home (and when it leaves and comes back to your home).

    inspxtr ,

    never turn on ISP-supplied WiFi

    maybe I’m missing something here, how do you get access to the internet for all devices (mobiles, laptops, …) without wifi then?

    jacksilver ,

    You can get your own modem (what plugs into the wall) or your own wifi router (you’d plug this into the isp modem). Your own modem is better, but ISPs can give you grief about “supporting” them.

    inspxtr ,

    ah gotcha, you meant ISP-provided devices

    masterofn001 , (edited )

    A wireless/ethernet router as access point, a personal proxy server, or pihole, between your devices and theirs. Or, if possible your own modem and router.

    [ISP modem/router]<–LAN–>[personal wifi router]<wifi>[cheap pc proxy @ 192.168.x.x]<wifi>[all your devices]

    Proxy could be ssh(socks5), tor, shadowsocks (not microsocks), dnscrypt, tinyproxy, nekobox, whatever. They’d all have the same internal address from the proxy (if set up that way) and then again one address from the router to their device. (Router and proxy order could be reversed : or just router for some basic device identity privacy - it doesn’t encrypt your data though. An encrypted proxy will. And tor or a VPN will mask your external ip) Some proxies/VPN are more secure than others.

    And,RTFM. A bad configuration can be worse than no configuration.

    Gemini24601 , to Privacy in A Look at What ISPs Know About You: Examining the Privacy Practices of Six Major Internet Service Providers - An FTC Staff Report
    @Gemini24601@lemmy.world avatar

    All those “hackers” in vpn commercials are in reality your isp.

    taladar ,

    Mainly because the VPN companies want to get that same data instead.

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