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The statement is completely age dependent. Not too long ago(before the movie), it was pretty newsworthy any time the next group reported that they were trying to find it.

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It sank in 1912. Length of time is relative.

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No more than any other social network and more likely to be less so. This just seems to be a justification for future government action against the app/company.

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The article seems a little light on any single fact but does anyone know if there's any actual data that shows personal disability information being recorded/collected? Is the tracking code being served both on the public side and in the logged in portion of the portal? Absolutely no meaningful information was provided.

I know we can sue a sandwich, is this one of these lawsuits? "I found Google tracking code on the DMV site so it's time to earn my retirement" sort of thing?

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This is America

I think that's a very apt summary of the case. It's our super-lotto.

Everyone knows(like even my elderly mom) that Google, FB, etc follow you everywhere and that they use that data. I would have no doubt those sites knew she was disabled long before she visited the DMV site. It looks like she just found a way to monetize it.

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Of course they used that picture to illustrate how flawed AI is at certain things.

schwim ,
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My family plays the games under my account now. I imagine not much will change when I'm dead.

schwim ,
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Pretty sure I'm good. Account email is a forwarder to a family domain and they have access to everything relating to the account. For all intents and purposes, it's just me logging in from the grave.

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Sorry for not being clear, I wasn't aware family sharing was even a thing. In my case, everyone is using my credentials to log into and use the games under my account. All the same property so same IP.

schwim ,
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Same thing I did last time he was president. Ignore the news and spend as much time as possible in the woods on a bicycle.

schwim ,
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That's my intention and I've been doing it for decades. It's kind of president-independent action.

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I don't think major manufacturers ever will make them. We'll continue to get one-off kickstarter-esque fringe phones that'll keep the most devout Luddite happy and the rest of us will buy what we are offered whether we want a dumb phone or not.

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I know and consider those to be squarely on the fringe.

schwim ,
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What are the better recommendations in your opinion?

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Anyone that would blindly believe the stuff like that lack the critical thought required to question their beliefs when it doesn't happen. They just seem to move to the next thing being pushed by people like Alex Jones or Fox News.

Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )

By the way, the earlier posted article https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary

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“Proton does not require a recovery address, but in this case the terror suspect added one on their own. We cannot encrypt this data as we need to be able to send an email to that address if the terror suspect wishes to initiate the recovery process,..."

I love that proton kept referring to the user as the "terror suspect" repeatedly so we would know they're really the good guy here.

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Thanks very much for the clarification to the context, I really appreciate it as someone who had no idea.

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I don't have a business account with them but have had a Prime subscription since Prime became a thing and have to say that something has changed in regards to the support as of late and not for the better.

Last week, we had 6 orders scheduled to arrive to our house and we got notifications for all that they had been delivered to the office and handed to reception, which we don't have, just a porch and a door. My wife contacted support to tell them and they said they would refund all of the orders without even looking to see where they got delivered to. The support person gave a few different totals, none of which were correct and we ended up having to go through our orders to add up the refund total since he couldn't do it correctly. After all of that a refund was issued..... and then the packages were delivered about 30 minutes later.

We have been trying for days now to let them know that the packages were delivered so we could be billed correctly but so far, every person we've talked to has said they're allowed to refund but not allowed to charge us and that it had to be passed to someone above them.

I don't have a lot of faith that they'll figure it out and worry that some day, they'll just cancel our account because they detected some type of fraud.

schwim ,
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lol, calm down there, captain commenter. You're going to blow a gasket.

schwim ,
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Thanks very much, that's what we ended up doing. We just reordered the canceled items and then returned them with the "no refund needed" option chosen.

schwim ,
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No, I reordered the items, then returned without requesting refund, as some helpful commenter suggested here while you were writing your epic diatribe.

What email provider do you use for sign ups?

I used to use Protonmail, however the verification steps become tedious when creating unique emails for sign ups. I've switched to Tutanota despite it contravening their one account policy. What do you all use for one off emails (for sign ups etc )? Or do you prefer one of those 10 minute email sites?

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I use forwarders on a domain I own that point to my primary acct.

schwim ,
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Laypeople don't make the distinction between bees. They want to "Save the bees", not save the honey bees. Of course the sentiment will be exploited by an industry.

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Anyone have an eli5 explanation of how AITA works? What patterns could be captured and how would that lead to identification or data siphoning?

schwim ,
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Thanks very much, I believe I understand that part now, like a fingerprint to associate to site components like pulled in js, css, etc. I still don't understand, though, how they associate that to a particular user of a VPN. Does each request done through a VPN include some sort of identifier for each of us or is AI also doing something to put these requests in a particular user's bucket?

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Could you explain how separate emails would increase security risk? I ask because I've used separate emails for absolutely everything and it has only ever helped me with security( if I get a Microsoft security notice to anything other than [email protected], I know it's not legitimate).

I don't mean in lieu of 2fa, strong pass, etc, I mean in conjunction. I don't see how it could hurt.

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What's odd is that they tell you you're banned for breaking an unnamed rule then invite you to create another account. If it were an offensive username, you'd think they would just force you to change it. What's the point of banning an account then asking the banned member to create another account?

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My gym does this. I carry one my old phones in my console with nothing but the gym app on it. I turn it on when I park, it connects to wifi while I'm walking in, I scan the code then turn it off and throw it in my bag.

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