• nxfsi@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    The average lemming:

    • concerned about online privacy
    • strongly against digital surveillance
    • rides exclusively public transit where there is surveillance everywhere
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      2 years ago

      There’s cameras everywhere watching the road too if you really care that much and you better believe your car model and license plate is a much more reliable form of identifying information than a blurry face on a bus security camera.

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      2 years ago

      There is surveillance everywhere outside, even having your own car doesn’t protect you from having your privacy encroached. That’s why I never go outside.

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      By ‘surveillance,’ do you mean a bus security camera to make sure no one is stabbing the driver? Because I’m pretty sure most of us don’t have much of a problem with that. It’s comprehensive government surveillance that is the problem.

      • nxfsi@lemmy.world
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        Unfortunately, “camera to make sure no one stabs the driver” is the exact tool used by “comprehensive government surveillance”. It’s something we’re forced to accept.

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          I would like evidence that security cameras on buses are used by the government for comprehensive surveillance. I don’t even know how they would accomplish such a thing with a stationary camera in a bus.

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        2 years ago

        When does “you should minimize your physical footprint so that you are harder to profile by bad people” suddenly become “just stay inside at all times and never go out”?

        Even with digital privacy, nothing is 100% effective.

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          2 years ago

          When you decided to make an ignorant comment about public transportation.

          Obviously nothing is 100%. That’s a given and doesn’t need to be said.