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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

This is why I don't use my real name on the internet, nor do I post selfies.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Photo caption: a woman smiling like a maniac,performing for a social media photo. Screenshot of television series Black Mirror, from an episode about social media dystopia

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

simple. ban imaging sensors in the public

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

That's not simple :P

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong but this isn't doxing? It's pulling already public info and not sharing it with the world.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Doxing is usually gathering already public info, but I agree if it's not shared it's not doxing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I never understood doxxing laws. All the people do is compile publicly available data. How is it illegal in some places?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's because you're gathering data to encourage others to use it for nefarious purposes. It's not just innocently looking up their email or whatever.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If it is all publicly available, it should be legal to repackage and release the info. As long as there is no call to action.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I'm pretty sure intent is part of the laws that exist. If you're just collating information, I don't think there's an issue. When you're posting that information in a forum to identify the person and send people to harass them, that's where you usually cross a line. It isn't the gathering of information that's important. It's the intent to cause harm.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Can the doxxing tech be used to ID law enforcement officers? A lot of them are assholes and bullies knowing their IDs will [be] protected by state and corporate interests.

And police in the US are more than eager to use facial recognition and ALPR services to bypass our fourth amendment protections.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is kind of the ironic catch of surveillance technology. There's way less people in positions of power and authority that the tech can be used to surveil. Honestly the bourgeois is better far not advancing it and just using old fashioned violent coercion.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Take a photo of a cop, upload it to the website, and find out.
Report back.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Welp, guess it's time for IR reflective tattoos to defeat facial recognition

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

So... Add high-contrast uniquely identifiable markings to yourself?

Seems counterproductive.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

it can work if everyone does it. Unfortunately we can't even do a boycott on a product properly so no chance for that to happen.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Full face tattoo and getting multiple people on board might do the trick for however long until additional markers are found for the edge case. I think clown makeup would do better since it varies day to day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, and hard to change.

These anti mask people are crazy!

(Please. It's a joke)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago
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