So security cams at a train station aren't an issue because technically no one is forced to use this public facility? Whether someone is forced to attend school or not doesn't change that a school is part of your public life, not of your private life. Teachers and other students will be able to look at you, what difference does it make whether a camera is pointed at you or not?

No one is forced to turn on their own webcam, either. It's just a thing that benefits everyone, so most people do it. Reading peoples faces is very helpful in conversations, just like it is to hear their voice.

The point isn't to have students look at a camera, it's to have the camera look at the student. The benefit is that software can notice when a student stops paying attention. Or discover cheating during tests. Or bullying. Teachers can work with this feedback to improve and students can be reprimanded based on this.

It's not very helpful for other things, but during my time I would have very much appreciated something like this, if it could help in suppressing the students not interested in learning. Those were the biggest obstacles back in elementary school. It is very unfortunate that there are no immediate repercussions for bad students. Pointing a camera at each students face could act first as a deterrent towards bad behaviour and second as evidence for the consequences the student will experience, especially for their parents.

There was facial recognition tech in school? Are all children assumed to be guilty now? Just throw them in jail at birth then.

There was facial recognition tech in school? Are all children assumed to be guilty now? Just throw them in jail at birth then.

It's a public institution you are forced to go to.

Because of corona lots of children had classes from home with a camera pointed at their face, anyway

Once again, forced. Forcing people to do one thing and then justifying something else because "obviously they're OK with the latter" is not a very good argument.

Do you think forcing somebody to look at a camera means:

• they will comprehend what's being said
• they will hear what is being
• that they are paying attention
• that the material they are being show is good

?

The reason people are OK with video meetings is due to control over your environment. You can disable you camera. You can spoof it with software.

The operator says that the hackers got customers' name, surname, phone number, email, date and place of birth, nationality, and address. They also have the SIM Integrated Circuit Card Identification Number (ICCID) - a unique number providing the card's country, home network, and identification.

Combined, these details can be used for SIM-swapping attacks that enable hackers to assign a victim's phone number to a SIM card in their possession and thus receive the target's calls and text messages.

Well, that's not good.

Don't ublock and umatrix block resources from external sites by default? The whole website might show up as a jumbled mess for me. I always try to keep the number of 3rd party request low and especially if the website isn't important to me, I'd stop using it if it required too many external resources.

Plus, if they're that lax about security, who knows what else is lurking? Wouldn't surprise me if their ssh user and password were admin:passw0rd! or something.

P.S I'm glad that's not what you were suggesting to use here because then I'd have quit immediately.

A school is a public institution, though, and the classroom isn't somewhere you have privacy in the first place. Because of corona lots of children had classes from home with a camera pointed at their face, anyway, so I don't see a camera pointing at your face during class as a privacy issue.

Yes.

That sounds like a terrible idea. Everyone should have the right to privacy.

What would the use case be, anyway? Maybe like what they did in China, where every student has a dedicated face camera that notices when the student stops paying attention. A teacher can't look at every student at the same time or all the time, but a camera can. That would be a really useful application.

The map/article is from 2018, so it's a bit dated. But it's safe to assume that if your state had it in 2018, that it likely still does. If anyone knows of a more recent or up-to-date map/resources, feel free to submit it.

Idk where you live but where i live as long as you take safety measures your fine

Corona is like the flu. It will never go away. Vaccines didn't make the flu go away. What we want is the stupid reaction to go away.

The measures are all inconsequent bullshit anyway. All the lock downs are pointless, since everyone is allowed to go to the supermarket anyway and masks are proven to not be 100% effective.

If they closed down the supermarkets, too and forced delivery of everything this whole thing would have been over months ago. But the way things have played out were, of course, different.

There wasn't even an effort to put logistics in place that would make grocery delivery feasible for everyone.

I agree with the pharma part but for me im young and healthy and live in the states. i just want corona to be over already.

Good points.

I think the concern was more around the fact that now an unknown and random 3rd party can determine who visits the site looking at the logs of how often their stylesheet was requested. I expect that the website owner would be able to view the logs of his own site, but not that a 3rd party (even if an admin) would be able to do the same to a degree.

Truthfully speaking, I wouldn't care that much. My default position towards websites is distrust. As long as the site in question has some value to me I'm compromising. It's an unfortunate state of affairs, but the web wasn't designed with either privacy nor with security, nor with anonymity in mind, so you don't get any of those. I don't expect this to change, either. Not on the clearnet, anyway. Most people don't even know how things work. They visit websites like they visit a doctor. Unequipped with the knowledge to even notice if something is horribly wrong. We evolved to live in communities where everyone had each others back, so this attitude of trust was an advantage. Nowadays, where nobody has each others back and everyone is looking out only for himself, trust isn't a good thing anymore.

no, this is why most foss projects fail, because they do something their own way instead of listening to users.

I know that my doctor won't get the vaccine for himself, since he considers it unsafe and I trust my doctor more than some stranger on the Internet claiming things. The specific complaint about the process was that the testing was only done on Africans who are genetically different from other races and thus the vaccine is still untested as far as these other races are concerned.

To me it remains untested until it is out in the field for about two years. How are you supposed to figure out long-term damage if you don't give the tests time?

Unfortunately the pharma industry is one that has lost every bit of trust it ever had over the years, so I wouldn't even be surprised if they were lying about everything, faking test results and paying off enough people to keep this under the lid. I recently heard that a cure for cancer was found decades ago, but since it was unprofitable the pharma industry suppressed it successfully. And that's just something I heard in the past few weeks.

i appreciate you maintaining your position but i do not appreciate you spreading false facts. these were tested that how they are able to be distributed. if you did any to little research or had any basic knowledge on how vaccines were developed you would know this.

Depends on if it's collecting personal identifying information or not.

Just knowing things like traffic stats, busiest traffic days of the week or times of day, traffic total divided by country of origin or popular pages isn't much of a privacy concern anymore than knowing that at 5PM on a Friday, this particular coffee shop is busy.

Narrowing it down to knowing how many times a particular IP accesses the site, what pages, and what they clicked on to get to that page and what they clicked on to exit, etc... Knowing browser stats, screen resolution, OS, etc... That's the privacy concern. Just like knowing that at 5PM on a Friday, /u/mr4channer is at this busy coffee shop, and he was last week too, and often visits between these hours on these days, and orders this, and pays with that, etc. That's the privacy concern. But just having a general understanding of knowing peak usages isn't, in my opinion.

For what it's worth, I don't do any of that for this site. I do have network graphs at the server level that just tells me how much traffic passes. Can't differentiate between traffic from the various networks that way, besides Lokinet, which the service creates it's own virtual ethernet device so it's graphed separately, but with no data other than the just bandwidth in/out. For the purpose of this site, that's enough. Upvotes/comments, perceived activity and looking at a network graph over the course of time (say 3-6 months) will tell me if there is growth or not.

I never used Ubuntu and will never use Ubuntu at all !

Thanks for the others suggestions :)

tails os, debian, antix is bundled with a ton of software, opensuse also has liveos options. dont use ubuntu

analytics is not "privacy" focused at all