They don’t want the world to know the truth about Jeffrey Epstein and their human traffic sex crimes. No wonder why hasn’t anyone released all of Ghislaine Maxwell list yet. (they are covering their asses)
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NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What are they so afraid of that they need to invasively spy on everyone?
Cyberbatman@lemmings.world 10 months ago
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you think that’s the worst dirty laundry the government has to air, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
Cyberbatman@lemmings.world 10 months ago
Cool, what’s your best offer? Cash only
aesthelete@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t think they need to be afraid of anything. They could just be looking for more blackmail material or just the raw feeling of the power to watch me take a number two whenever they want.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 10 months ago
9/11
qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one 10 months ago
Where else are they going to get their metrics?
TheFriar@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Dude, I bought a pair of Bose headphones yesterday. I get the home and the first thing they try to get me to do is download their app. Of course, sketchy (to me, anyway). So I dive into the “cookies/tracking data” section, which links me to the “privacy policy” which links me AGAIN to “information we collect and how”—all different documents with their own tables of contents. Legally binding documents.
They get people to sign away their rights to ANY privacy. They can “map your head movements” and what seemed to be…the shape of your head(?), they can PASSIVELY LISTEN TO ANY SOUND “around you,” they can intercept any any all information that passes through the headphones/microphone, record all biometrics…
Needless to say, I didn’t download the app. But these were the best headphones I’d ever put in my ears, right out of the box. So I went onto the SMS chat (while they were the best, the pair I had were defective)…and the first message I get is…A GODDAMN LINK TO A DIFFERENT PRIVACY POLICY. “Simplified” so it seemed like I was just giving them permission to record the SMS conversation “for training purposes,” but THANK FUCKIN GOD I dug deeper, BACK INTO THE MAZE OF SUBCLAUSES AND OBSCURED LINKS AND SEPARATE DOCUMENTS to find that they were trying to get me to sign THE ORIGINAL GODDAMN PRIVACY POLICY. And all I had to do was REPLY IN THE CHAT. That would’ve been apparently my consent.
So I called, because I wanted to use these headphones. They were so perfect. I asked to speak to the legal dept, if I can use the headphones without SOMEHOW, their privacy policy surreptitiously taking effect/being tacitly agreed to.
Well, you can’t reach the legal dept. so fuck it. Fuck BOSE, fuck these great headphones. I’ll suffer inferior headphones if I can’t be promised that I don’t sign away my organs and/or all possible information.
For good measure
#FUCK YOU BOSE.
qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one 10 months ago
That’s crazy, but believable. I have a pair of Bose 700’s kicking around that one of my kids uses, but they don’t have the app. I wonder how they can potentially consent for data collection without breaking any data collection laws.
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
I mean. They put out all the disclaimers, collect the data anyway, and if they get sued they bury the person suing in paper, or if the person looks like they might wind up effecting a ruling that changes the legal interpretation in a way that is disadvantageous to the company, they settle out of court.
That way the courts never change the interpretation of the laws in a way that harms them, and bought politicians won’t do that. Plus a company that can legally record you can also just freely share those recordings with the police, so politicians aren’t going to impede that.
Things will get very funny in a few years when “AI” gets cheap enough that all those recordings wind up processed, tagged, and automatically shared with law enforcement or marketers.
It’s only a matter of time before saying “I want pizza” in the privacy of your own home results in a text from a national pizza chain.
twisted28@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The 1% are aware they have retribution coming down the pipes and are trying desperately to stop it. French Revolution style. Notice the NSA didn’t stop 1/6 ? All an excuse for unconstitutional spying.