As much as I love my EV I’ll keep my horse au naturel…

Just ask for the customer’s first born at this stage…

Beside the « personal tasks » or generally any personal data that might be processed locally by performing those - which are likely allowed to a certain extent by internal policies in large companies - the behaviour determination by keystroke / microphone / camera analysis is a privacy concern whatever data is involved.

It’s a level of surveillance that goes way to far. This is indeed a step too far.

This is literally their latest attempt at malicious compliance so you’re not wrong. EU will play ball for sure.

Yup we agree on that. This pattern is actually the most sensible approach to support privacy. Whatever happens in transmission.

The easiest implementation of this is that the recipient of an infringing message flags it from its local client. At that point it’s not encrypted if their claim of e2ee is true.

It also means that only parties involved in the message exchange can flag / report them.

Corporations are often not so monolithic ; the guys doing abuse are likely not the one who try to milk users (looking at you marketing).

Any reported message ? Back when I was doing anti spam at my ISP we could read reported spam from our customers. Obviously not all mails from / to the customers. That would be way disproportionate.

About that last sentence; the same crap is creeping in Europe at the very least. There was another press release about the eu commission iirc welcoming a similar decision in spirit. Just not implemented at OS level but web-side.

Not sure or Asia and Africa are feeling about this but unfortunately USA is not alone. which in my opinion gives credits to the various theories that it’s being pushed by gafam.

Fair point. It’s so sad to think about artists being poor to start with :-/

The things with AI is that it has yet to come for the poors…

That’s what makes us humans at least…

In Europe we have the AI act which, as of August, will introduce some form of transparency obligations. Not perfect obviously but a start. Probably will not be followed by the rest of the world though so like GDPR it will be forcibly eroded by other’s interests through lobbying but at least we try.

Uh? It’s a bit less generic than that… some activities of governments are excluded from the scope but not all data processing from government agencies are.

For example this particular personal data processing likely fits under the prevention of criminal offences and threats to public security and is highly unfortunate but let’s keep shit factual.

Possibly?

Let’s celebrate this victory… even though it’s concerning that it is a recurring topic :-/

Niiiiiiice

I like the idea of being the outcome of a violent collision.

They don’t provide you any equipment ? Then good. It’s very typical for them to do so.

Heyyyyy at least they failed fast :)

On top of client VPNs you might consider the possible other freebies from yr ISP such as router, WiFi access points and other network elements they provide you with. Set-op-boxes as well. All those equipments are absolutely ratting you as much as possible. Also any software including mobile apps they provide for support / billing / whatever.