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

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

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

simple. ban imaging sensors in the public

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

That's not simple :P

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

Seems counterproductive.

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

Yeah, and hard to change.

These anti mask people are crazy!

(Please. It's a joke)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
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