#surveillance — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #surveillance, aggregated by home.social.
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Sorry I've been distant and sad lately. I'm dealing with the crushing existential dread of living on a beautiful planet bursting with life, only to watch the dumbest motherfuckers alive destroy it while chasing as much money as they can hoard.
#mentalhealth #california #cap #surveillance #wealth #us #climatechange #noai
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Sorry I've been distant and sad lately. I'm dealing with the crushing existential dread of living on a beautiful planet bursting with life, only to watch the dumbest motherfuckers alive destroy it while chasing as much money as they can hoard.
#mentalhealth #california #cap #surveillance #wealth #us #climatechange #noai
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Sorry I've been distant and sad lately. I'm dealing with the crushing existential dread of living on a beautiful planet bursting with life, only to watch the dumbest motherfuckers alive destroy it while chasing as much money as they can hoard.
#mentalhealth #california #cap #surveillance #wealth #us #climatechange #noai
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Sorry I've been distant and sad lately. I'm dealing with the crushing existential dread of living on a beautiful planet bursting with life, only to watch the dumbest motherfuckers alive destroy it while chasing as much money as they can hoard.
#mentalhealth #california #cap #surveillance #wealth #us #climatechange #noai
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Sorry I've been distant and sad lately. I'm dealing with the crushing existential dread of living on a beautiful planet bursting with life, only to watch the dumbest motherfuckers alive destroy it while chasing as much money as they can hoard.
#mentalhealth #california #cap #surveillance #wealth #us #climatechange #noai
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Tiens tiens, lorsque le pouvoir devient franchisant les gens rejettent les caméras de surveillance, étrange !
Et chez nous ?
#surveillance #caméra #vieprivee -
Tiens tiens, lorsque le pouvoir devient franchisant les gens rejettent les caméras de surveillance, étrange !
Et chez nous ?
#surveillance #caméra #vieprivee -
Tiens tiens, lorsque le pouvoir devient franchisant les gens rejettent les caméras de surveillance, étrange !
Et chez nous ?
#surveillance #caméra #vieprivee -
Tiens tiens, lorsque le pouvoir devient franchisant les gens rejettent les caméras de surveillance, étrange !
Et chez nous ?
#surveillance #caméra #vieprivee -
Another thought I've been sitting with lately is about EU. Von der Leyen proposed banning social media accounts for under-13s and personal accounts for under-15s across the EU. No accounts under 13. No personal accounts under 15. Period.
My first reaction was, honestly, relief. I have a twelve-year-old nephew who asked for Instagram last Christmas, and my sister has been agonizing over it for months. She's not a luddite, but she just doesn't want him to spend his early adolescence being algorithmically optimized for outrage and insecurity. The data on teen mental health isn't pretty. We all know this. We've all seen it.
But then I sat with it a bit longer, and a different feeling crept in.
I grew up on the early internet. I was on forums at thirteen, pretending to be older, learning HTML because I wanted a cool personal page. It was messy. It was unsupervised. It was also formative in ways I can't easily articulate. The internet was where I found my people when my physical world didn't have any. And I don't think that's a small thing.
The EU's proposal is part of a broader push, alongside new rules on AI and children's online safety. Von der Leyen framed it around "children's online safety" and it's clearly a response to genuine parental anxiety. And I do think the platforms have earned this. They've spent a decade designing addictive products and hiding behind "we're just a tool" arguments while their internal research told a different story.
But I keep coming back to the implementation question. How do you verify age without building a de facto digital ID infrastructure? What happens to the queer kid in a small town who finds community online because their offline world is hostile? What happens to the kid who's just curious and wants to learn things? A blanket ban might protect some kids while isolating others in ways we haven't thought through.
I don't have a clean answer here. I'm genuinely torn. But I'm glad it's being debated seriously, and I'm glad the EU is actually doing something instead of just publishing another report. The conversation is worth having. I'm just not sure the blunt instrument is the right one.
I'd genuinely love to hear what people think about this one. Especially any parents or educators here.
#eu #eupol #socialmedia #instagram #twitter #facebook #surveillance #academia #parenting #europe #technology
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I had a realization today while waiting for my coffee. I was standing there, scrolling through my phone like everyone else, and I felt this sudden, overwhelming wave of relief that I am, for all intents and purposes, a background character in 99.9% of the world's lives.
We spend so much time online, especially here, in the fediverse, crafting a "presence." We curate our bios, we worry about our instance's vibe, we debate the ethics of our server choices. We are constantly performing citizenship in a digital town square. And I love it here. It feels more real than the corporate algorithmic feeds.
But there is a profound peace in realizing that the barista doesn't care about my last boost. The person walking their dog doesn't know my stance on database migrations. To them, I'm just someone in a slightly wrinkled tshirt waiting for a latte.
I think we need to romanticize being ordinary more. Not in a "give up" way, but in a "you are free" way. You don't have to be a thought leader. You don't have to have a brand.
You can just be a person who likes coffee and has a weird amount of knowledge about 90s synthesizers. The pressure to be "seen" is a trap. The joy of being "unseen" is a superpower. I hope you all get to be a background character in someone's day today. It is lovely here ❤️
#mastodon #socialmedia #freedom #capitalism #surveillance #privacy #noai #design #reading #books #facebook #quotes #technology #hardware #music #coffee #goodmorning
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I had a realization today while waiting for my coffee. I was standing there, scrolling through my phone like everyone else, and I felt this sudden, overwhelming wave of relief that I am, for all intents and purposes, a background character in 99.9% of the world's lives.
We spend so much time online, especially here, in the fediverse, crafting a "presence." We curate our bios, we worry about our instance's vibe, we debate the ethics of our server choices. We are constantly performing citizenship in a digital town square. And I love it here. It feels more real than the corporate algorithmic feeds.
But there is a profound peace in realizing that the barista doesn't care about my last boost. The person walking their dog doesn't know my stance on database migrations. To them, I'm just someone in a slightly wrinkled tshirt waiting for a latte.
I think we need to romanticize being ordinary more. Not in a "give up" way, but in a "you are free" way. You don't have to be a thought leader. You don't have to have a brand.
You can just be a person who likes coffee and has a weird amount of knowledge about 90s synthesizers. The pressure to be "seen" is a trap. The joy of being "unseen" is a superpower. I hope you all get to be a background character in someone's day today. It is lovely here ❤️
#mastodon #socialmedia #freedom #capitalism #surveillance #privacy #noai #design #reading #books #facebook #quotes #technology #hardware #music #coffee #goodmorning
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I had a realization today while waiting for my coffee. I was standing there, scrolling through my phone like everyone else, and I felt this sudden, overwhelming wave of relief that I am, for all intents and purposes, a background character in 99.9% of the world's lives.
We spend so much time online, especially here, in the fediverse, crafting a "presence." We curate our bios, we worry about our instance's vibe, we debate the ethics of our server choices. We are constantly performing citizenship in a digital town square. And I love it here. It feels more real than the corporate algorithmic feeds.
But there is a profound peace in realizing that the barista doesn't care about my last boost. The person walking their dog doesn't know my stance on database migrations. To them, I'm just someone in a slightly wrinkled tshirt waiting for a latte.
I think we need to romanticize being ordinary more. Not in a "give up" way, but in a "you are free" way. You don't have to be a thought leader. You don't have to have a brand.
You can just be a person who likes coffee and has a weird amount of knowledge about 90s synthesizers. The pressure to be "seen" is a trap. The joy of being "unseen" is a superpower. I hope you all get to be a background character in someone's day today. It is lovely here ❤️
#mastodon #socialmedia #freedom #capitalism #surveillance #privacy #noai #design #reading #books #facebook #quotes #technology #hardware #music #coffee #goodmorning
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I had a realization today while waiting for my coffee. I was standing there, scrolling through my phone like everyone else, and I felt this sudden, overwhelming wave of relief that I am, for all intents and purposes, a background character in 99.9% of the world's lives.
We spend so much time online, especially here, in the fediverse, crafting a "presence." We curate our bios, we worry about our instance's vibe, we debate the ethics of our server choices. We are constantly performing citizenship in a digital town square. And I love it here. It feels more real than the corporate algorithmic feeds.
But there is a profound peace in realizing that the barista doesn't care about my last boost. The person walking their dog doesn't know my stance on database migrations. To them, I'm just someone in a slightly wrinkled tshirt waiting for a latte.
I think we need to romanticize being ordinary more. Not in a "give up" way, but in a "you are free" way. You don't have to be a thought leader. You don't have to have a brand.
You can just be a person who likes coffee and has a weird amount of knowledge about 90s synthesizers. The pressure to be "seen" is a trap. The joy of being "unseen" is a superpower. I hope you all get to be a background character in someone's day today. It is lovely here ❤️
#mastodon #socialmedia #freedom #capitalism #surveillance #privacy #noai #design #reading #books #facebook #quotes #technology #hardware #music #coffee #goodmorning
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I had a realization today while waiting for my coffee. I was standing there, scrolling through my phone like everyone else, and I felt this sudden, overwhelming wave of relief that I am, for all intents and purposes, a background character in 99.9% of the world's lives.
We spend so much time online, especially here, in the fediverse, crafting a "presence." We curate our bios, we worry about our instance's vibe, we debate the ethics of our server choices. We are constantly performing citizenship in a digital town square. And I love it here. It feels more real than the corporate algorithmic feeds.
But there is a profound peace in realizing that the barista doesn't care about my last boost. The person walking their dog doesn't know my stance on database migrations. To them, I'm just someone in a slightly wrinkled tshirt waiting for a latte.
I think we need to romanticize being ordinary more. Not in a "give up" way, but in a "you are free" way. You don't have to be a thought leader. You don't have to have a brand.
You can just be a person who likes coffee and has a weird amount of knowledge about 90s synthesizers. The pressure to be "seen" is a trap. The joy of being "unseen" is a superpower. I hope you all get to be a background character in someone's day today. It is lovely here ❤️
#mastodon #socialmedia #freedom #capitalism #surveillance #privacy #noai #design #reading #books #facebook #quotes #technology #hardware #music #coffee #goodmorning
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« In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalladr »
#ai #data #personaldate #surveillance #palantir www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
They’re saying: we’re watching... -
Eavesdroppers Exploit Device Linking to Tap WhatsApp, Signal Accounts
Germany's Customs Office has successfully used device linking to tap into WhatsApp and Signal accounts by connecting a police-controlled computer to a suspect's account, exploiting a feature meant for convenience. This technique allows authorities to intercept messages without cracking encryption, raising concerns about digital security.
#DeviceLinking #Whatsapp #Signal #Surveillance #LawEnforcement
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Eavesdroppers Exploit Device Linking to Tap WhatsApp, Signal Accounts
Germany's Customs Office has successfully used device linking to tap into WhatsApp and Signal accounts by connecting a police-controlled computer to a suspect's account, exploiting a feature meant for convenience. This technique allows authorities to intercept messages without cracking encryption, raising concerns about digital security.
#DeviceLinking #Whatsapp #Signal #Surveillance #LawEnforcement
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Eavesdroppers Exploit Device Linking to Tap WhatsApp, Signal Accounts
Germany's Customs Office has successfully used device linking to tap into WhatsApp and Signal accounts by connecting a police-controlled computer to a suspect's account, exploiting a feature meant for convenience. This technique allows authorities to intercept messages without cracking encryption, raising concerns about digital security.
#DeviceLinking #Whatsapp #Signal #Surveillance #LawEnforcement
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Eavesdroppers Exploit Device Linking to Tap WhatsApp, Signal Accounts
Germany's Customs Office has successfully used device linking to tap into WhatsApp and Signal accounts by connecting a police-controlled computer to a suspect's account, exploiting a feature meant for convenience. This technique allows authorities to intercept messages without cracking encryption, raising concerns about digital security.
#DeviceLinking #Whatsapp #Signal #Surveillance #LawEnforcement
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While the Country Rejects #ALPR Mass #Surveillance, SF Settles for Weak Safeguards
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While the Country Rejects #ALPR Mass #Surveillance, SF Settles for Weak Safeguards
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While the Country Rejects #ALPR Mass #Surveillance, SF Settles for Weak Safeguards
#privacy #flock -
While the Country Rejects #ALPR Mass #Surveillance, SF Settles for Weak Safeguards
#privacy #flock -
While the Country Rejects #ALPR Mass #Surveillance, SF Settles for Weak Safeguards
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500K #FacialRecognition Scans at #UK Stations Yield Zero #Arrests , One #FalsePositive
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500K #FacialRecognition Scans at #UK Stations Yield Zero #Arrests , One #FalsePositive
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500K #FacialRecognition Scans at #UK Stations Yield Zero #Arrests , One #FalsePositive
#biometrics #privacy #surveillance -
500K #FacialRecognition Scans at #UK Stations Yield Zero #Arrests , One #FalsePositive
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500K #FacialRecognition Scans at #UK Stations Yield Zero #Arrests , One #FalsePositive
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#Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add #FacialRecognition to #Flock Cameras
#VIDIZMO is advertising capability to export footage from FlockOS to its own platforms that do facial recognition, behavior prediction, and racial and gender analysis on live camera feeds, something Flock won't do. VIDIZMO is a several decades-old video analysis and db company that has started offering facial recognition technology to cops within last six months.
https://www.404media.co/surveillance-company-tells-cops-it-wants-to-add-facial-recognition-to-flock-cameras/
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#Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add #FacialRecognition to #Flock Cameras
#VIDIZMO is advertising capability to export footage from FlockOS to its own platforms that do facial recognition, behavior prediction, and racial and gender analysis on live camera feeds, something Flock won't do. VIDIZMO is a several decades-old video analysis and db company that has started offering facial recognition technology to cops within last six months.
https://www.404media.co/surveillance-company-tells-cops-it-wants-to-add-facial-recognition-to-flock-cameras/
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#Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add #FacialRecognition to #Flock Cameras
#VIDIZMO is advertising capability to export footage from FlockOS to its own platforms that do facial recognition, behavior prediction, and racial and gender analysis on live camera feeds, something Flock won't do. VIDIZMO is a several decades-old video analysis and db company that has started offering facial recognition technology to cops within last six months.
https://www.404media.co/surveillance-company-tells-cops-it-wants-to-add-facial-recognition-to-flock-cameras/
https://archive.ph/ovVnf -
#Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add #FacialRecognition to #Flock Cameras
#VIDIZMO is advertising capability to export footage from FlockOS to its own platforms that do facial recognition, behavior prediction, and racial and gender analysis on live camera feeds, something Flock won't do. VIDIZMO is a several decades-old video analysis and db company that has started offering facial recognition technology to cops within last six months.
https://www.404media.co/surveillance-company-tells-cops-it-wants-to-add-facial-recognition-to-flock-cameras/
https://archive.ph/ovVnf -
#Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add #FacialRecognition to #Flock Cameras
#VIDIZMO is advertising capability to export footage from FlockOS to its own platforms that do facial recognition, behavior prediction, and racial and gender analysis on live camera feeds, something Flock won't do. VIDIZMO is a several decades-old video analysis and db company that has started offering facial recognition technology to cops within last six months.
https://www.404media.co/surveillance-company-tells-cops-it-wants-to-add-facial-recognition-to-flock-cameras/
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“Joshua Michael’s Flock Surveillance Map highlights the locations of what he says are 300,000 Flock surveillance devices spread across the country. His findings — which were cited in Wednesday’s Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing on Flock — differ from existing maps of Flock’s automated license plate readers in scope and methodology.
Unlike crowd-sourced projects such as DeFlock, which are built on locations submitted by users, the Flock Surveillance Map relies on location data culled from a snapshot, archived by Michael in December 2025, of Flock’s own records. In addition to cameras, it maps supplemental devices — including 27,000 acoustic detection devices, as well as networking equipment that integrates third-party cameras — to illustrate the scale of Flock’s surveillance web.
“These cameras form a nationwide surveillance network that tracks where everyone drives,” Michael told The Intercept, “so foreign nations don’t need to send spies to harm our country. They can simply watch where our soldiers, federal agents, and politicians go.””
https://theintercept.com/2026/09/24/how-many-flock-devices-in-united-states-300000/
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“Joshua Michael’s Flock Surveillance Map highlights the locations of what he says are 300,000 Flock surveillance devices spread across the country. His findings — which were cited in Wednesday’s Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing on Flock — differ from existing maps of Flock’s automated license plate readers in scope and methodology.
Unlike crowd-sourced projects such as DeFlock, which are built on locations submitted by users, the Flock Surveillance Map relies on location data culled from a snapshot, archived by Michael in December 2025, of Flock’s own records. In addition to cameras, it maps supplemental devices — including 27,000 acoustic detection devices, as well as networking equipment that integrates third-party cameras — to illustrate the scale of Flock’s surveillance web.
“These cameras form a nationwide surveillance network that tracks where everyone drives,” Michael told The Intercept, “so foreign nations don’t need to send spies to harm our country. They can simply watch where our soldiers, federal agents, and politicians go.””
https://theintercept.com/2026/09/24/how-many-flock-devices-in-united-states-300000/
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“Joshua Michael’s Flock Surveillance Map highlights the locations of what he says are 300,000 Flock surveillance devices spread across the country. His findings — which were cited in Wednesday’s Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing on Flock — differ from existing maps of Flock’s automated license plate readers in scope and methodology.
Unlike crowd-sourced projects such as DeFlock, which are built on locations submitted by users, the Flock Surveillance Map relies on location data culled from a snapshot, archived by Michael in December 2025, of Flock’s own records. In addition to cameras, it maps supplemental devices — including 27,000 acoustic detection devices, as well as networking equipment that integrates third-party cameras — to illustrate the scale of Flock’s surveillance web.
“These cameras form a nationwide surveillance network that tracks where everyone drives,” Michael told The Intercept, “so foreign nations don’t need to send spies to harm our country. They can simply watch where our soldiers, federal agents, and politicians go.””
https://theintercept.com/2026/09/24/how-many-flock-devices-in-united-states-300000/
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“Joshua Michael’s Flock Surveillance Map highlights the locations of what he says are 300,000 Flock surveillance devices spread across the country. His findings — which were cited in Wednesday’s Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing on Flock — differ from existing maps of Flock’s automated license plate readers in scope and methodology.
Unlike crowd-sourced projects such as DeFlock, which are built on locations submitted by users, the Flock Surveillance Map relies on location data culled from a snapshot, archived by Michael in December 2025, of Flock’s own records. In addition to cameras, it maps supplemental devices — including 27,000 acoustic detection devices, as well as networking equipment that integrates third-party cameras — to illustrate the scale of Flock’s surveillance web.
“These cameras form a nationwide surveillance network that tracks where everyone drives,” Michael told The Intercept, “so foreign nations don’t need to send spies to harm our country. They can simply watch where our soldiers, federal agents, and politicians go.””
https://theintercept.com/2026/09/24/how-many-flock-devices-in-united-states-300000/
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“Joshua Michael’s Flock Surveillance Map highlights the locations of what he says are 300,000 Flock surveillance devices spread across the country. His findings — which were cited in Wednesday’s Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing on Flock — differ from existing maps of Flock’s automated license plate readers in scope and methodology.
Unlike crowd-sourced projects such as DeFlock, which are built on locations submitted by users, the Flock Surveillance Map relies on location data culled from a snapshot, archived by Michael in December 2025, of Flock’s own records. In addition to cameras, it maps supplemental devices — including 27,000 acoustic detection devices, as well as networking equipment that integrates third-party cameras — to illustrate the scale of Flock’s surveillance web.
“These cameras form a nationwide surveillance network that tracks where everyone drives,” Michael told The Intercept, “so foreign nations don’t need to send spies to harm our country. They can simply watch where our soldiers, federal agents, and politicians go.””
https://theintercept.com/2026/09/24/how-many-flock-devices-in-united-states-300000/
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Title: Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
Subtitle: A #surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that #Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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Title: Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
Subtitle: A #surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that #Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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Title: Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
Subtitle: A #surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that #Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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Title: Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
Subtitle: A #surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that #Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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Title: Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
Subtitle: A #surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that #Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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Yesterday I launched Siding 29.
Today I want to leave you with one of the questions behind it:
We usually treat privacy as something that happens after data is collected.
Consent. Access. Retention. Security. Deletion.
But what changes if privacy begins one step earlier?
Should this record exist at all? -
Yesterday I launched Siding 29.
Today I want to leave you with one of the questions behind it:
We usually treat privacy as something that happens after data is collected.
Consent. Access. Retention. Security. Deletion.
But what changes if privacy begins one step earlier?
Should this record exist at all? -
Yesterday I launched Siding 29.
Today I want to leave you with one of the questions behind it:
We usually treat privacy as something that happens after data is collected.
Consent. Access. Retention. Security. Deletion.
But what changes if privacy begins one step earlier?
Should this record exist at all? -
Yesterday I launched Siding 29.
Today I want to leave you with one of the questions behind it:
We usually treat privacy as something that happens after data is collected.
Consent. Access. Retention. Security. Deletion.
But what changes if privacy begins one step earlier?
Should this record exist at all? -
Yesterday I launched Siding 29.
Today I want to leave you with one of the questions behind it:
We usually treat privacy as something that happens after data is collected.
Consent. Access. Retention. Security. Deletion.
But what changes if privacy begins one step earlier?
Should this record exist at all?