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Control of our devices

2024-07-18 18:47:03.106476+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

I remember when we were aghast that in the Soviet Union typewriters had to be registered. Now there's discussion about rooting through your phone's pictures with automated systems, and whether or not "law enforcement" should be able to read your texts. in a thread about Photobucket's TOS changes around biometrics, Kyle Memoir 🍉 @f800gecko@mastodon.online notes

It’s not hard to envision or predict a time not far off when the only computers and phones available to the public will have zero ungoverned user storage space available.

We’ll have plenty of time-wasting options like these to contemplate, and background colour options, etc., but no real choice.

For ‘security reasons’ naturally.

And it won’t matter particularly who’s elected where in the next few years, the way things are going.

We’ve been seeing that already if we’ve had our eyes open.

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