• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    On social media, I see ragebaiting posts and it occurred to me that they are honeypots in disguise. If I say too much, it could be used against me, as I plan to join a union.

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      It is exactly what Instagram is, everyone is incriminating themselves with all kind of hateful baits. There will be a day when they will use that data accordingly.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 hour ago

      I plan to join a union

      talks into earpiece You hear that, boys? It’s oppression time! hoots with glee like Alex’s droogs in A Clockwork Orange

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I’m a lot more comfortable with people knowing what my genitals look like than most people are and yet even I draw the line well before insurers or law enforcement get a peek

  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    3 hours ago

    Filing accident reports, my contact information is made public record, and lawyers and shady chiropractors line up to try to fleece me. Yes, I have something to hide, or rather, someone to hide from.

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    6 hours ago

    There are even some body-parts of mine, that I am ordered — by the law itself — to hide in public.!!!1

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    8 hours ago

    People have been murdered for wearing glasses, please believe your minor social associations and opinions and thoughts can get you killed

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    10 hours ago

    How alternative medicine advocates target people right after diagnosed cancer

    How people who just lost their loved ones gets menorial service ads

    There’s legit moments you become emotionally vulnerable and if they knew they’ll definitely prey on you

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      Those are low key violations too. You just wait. Social scores parsed by bad faith palantir type organizations used secretly against us in ways we won’t be able to be sure of or challenge, losing one that job, that loan, getting worse treatment from authorities. Later even being used to send paramilitary thugs to target one even. Paramilitary as in like pround boys types under the wing of the party. Ice is not that, they are a security service, I don’t care how many times it’s repeated it doesn’t make it correct.

  • Fandangalo@lemmy.world
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    Data fabrication is its own risk in this. Assuming we live in a society where a govt can argue it has all this information, they could make shit up & conjure the “evidence” to support their version. Because the apparatus is established as “we know everything & can uncover the ‘truth’”, they could falsify files, they could plant files on devices, and they could edit information at a grander scale than in the past. Flock’s financial backing is connected to a company that makes money from footage editing. If they establish, “Flock shows footage of reality,” while being able to manipulate it, then we’re all a deepfake away from being accused of shit we didn’t do. That’s like Black Mirror episode 1.

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    surveillance is about datamining, and profiling to manipulate, control, and market. Not just market products and news but to lead the person profiled down a specific path.

    we are about to have the control of our life and world view completely taken from us moreso than what was done with the analog methods of media marketing and later organic digital era which we are in the process of leaving.

    it’s really what every ancient culture warned us about. this is the false god. you don’t need to be

    • urthoughtsrbad@lemmy.zip
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      You are trying to manipulate people by swaying their opinions online, you think it’s for a righteous cause and this case may be so, but do you not feel hypocritical posting on social media? You also happen to be giving away some data for free. But that isn’t bad because….

      • Hugucinogens@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Because this data doesn’t end up owned by a corporation.

        It’s now freely available to anyone who has means to read it.

        Because people need to communicate in order to build community, and leaving the online space to the corporations is stupid.

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          This data is available to and now in a data bank owned by the corporations too? Y’all are more preoccupied with scoring tough guy wins online than thinking introspectively for just a moment. Doesn’t matter how it’s said, anything against your hive is just disparaged. So downvote me and move on with your day.

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          Thank you for your contribution. The email associated with user okokimup is more likely to interact with privacy related stories and ads. This is a great data point. One in a trillion, but still sellable.

  • ramble81@lemmy.zip
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    9 hours ago

    Saw this concept in another thread. Paraphrasing and adding my own stuff.

    Two words: dynamic pricing. Every company will start setting prices, using your tailored data, to extract the maximum amount of revenue from you that they can. And i guarantee, it won’t be cheaper than you pay now.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    That, and even if you’re not considered part of whatever targeted group the current regime hates today, it doesn’t mean they won’t invent a new targeted group tomorrow that just so happens to include you.

    This is before getting into all the false positive “identifications” of “criminal behavior” aimed at demonstrably innocent people e.g. as is already happening with the current Flock camera debacle.

    No government has any legitimate reason to surveil its own citizens, and if any such excuse is generated to justify it in the beginning it is guaranteed to devolve into a tool of oppression afterwards. Once you give up rights there is no reality in which any government will voluntarily give them back.

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      Found the president’s lemmy front man’s account! /s But that is how they operate, they don’t trust anyone they don’t have dirt on. Just like the Borgia pope.

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    While it might not be immediately apparent how that information will be used against us, it is far more dangerous than we can possibly imagine having this information in the secret data centers of oligarchs, on everyone, down to granular detail, not the least with computers and llm’s able to parse the data better all the time.

    Ie, social scores to be used secretly against us, micro targeting, and so forth. Information is power and silicon valley and the oligarchs have too much of it. They have to be stopped.