tired of living
I would love to see a country go the other way and put IDs and biometric data in a special category where companies are either banned from collecting it or required to be held liable for damages if it’s stolen or misused. It’ll never happen though
You guys are both off in your thinking. Credit card companies didn’t give rewards to get your spending data, they did it to get you spending. If people don’t spend on their credit cards, people don’t get charged large amounts in interest.
They do it for debit cards too though. There’ll be other reasons as you said but getting your spending daa is 100% one of them
That’s always the cycle when it comes to giving up data for ‘perks’. First there’ll be benefits for complying, then those will go away, then it’ll turn into penalties for people who don’t comply. With the rise in technology in cars we’re already seeing some insurance companies offer lower rates for people in exchange for sharing their location/driving info. I think eventually it’ll shift to the point where ‘default’ insurance is made so expensive you’ll have no choice but to share everything you do with your insurance company
Cash makes you more aware of what you’re spending, is good for budgeting, and better for privacy. I’ll never stop using it
Your point on housing and government is a pure cop out. Plenty of people would be happy smaller basic houses if they could just afford them. But they’ve all been either knocked down, renovated to inflate the value, or still exist but are no longer affordable. And labor are, at best, complicit in many of the problems people have. They used a vaguely defined ‘skills shortage’ to justify one of the biggest migration rates into the country in its history while barely lifting a finger to increase housing supply. Yes, the libs would’ve been 10x worse, but that isn’t an excuse to just disregard criticism of Labor
A lot of ALPRs are well hidden here
I suppose it defeats the purpose but this in itself should be illegal. If these cameras exist they should be required to be clearly signposted. People should have the right to know exactly if/where/how they’re being recorded. Not just “maybe there’s a camera here, maybe we’re recording you, maybe we’re capturing and recording your face, who knows”
Make sure you don’t drive either. They scan number plates too
I was talking to a friend the other day and she mentioned she’d searched for a product online and then started getting ads for it, and asked how often it’d happened to me. She was very surprised when I said never and I explained that I’d been using an ad blocker for the last 15 years. And by the end of our conversation I’d walked her through setting it up on her devices and now she’s one step closer to regaining her privacy
I often find people really aren’t happy with their privacy being undermined but they don’t realise there are things they can do about it. They’ll say things like “well it’s happening to everyone else too” as a coping mechanism but it’s not something they want. More education is critical
Mmm love me a nice law written to be as broad and fucking vague as possible