Becoming invisible digitally

thermionic · 2022-09-20T15:50:28.543Z

Hlecktro:

I can’t remember what it’s called, but there’s a way to tattoo/paint your face in an odd way so that facial recognition AI doesn’t register it

Probably not what you’re thinking but…

Consequence – 8 Jul 19

It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology

Juggalos had it right all along. It turns out the Insane Clown Posse fans' makeup effectively blocks some facial recognition software.

forest:

the trick is to log off and go outside. Fact is nobody wants to because most of the data being scraped is utterly unimportant and simply used to personalise whatever ads you’re gonna be bombarded with anyway. Stop posting personal information online, simple as

The problem with data warehouses/aggregators is that you can’t opt out of their effects on your life. You don’t choose to opt-in, you don’t accept anything to have your life-profile shared with them.

I’m happy that as of yet so far nobody’s suggested using a write-once, read-only public ledger for “privacy” of transactions. For the most part**, nobody’s actively mining your credit card transactions for who you transact with and what you buy, governments leave that diligence to bank onboarding.

That onboarding process isn’t great and TOS can be weird, but it’s mostly structured around making sure vague terms of service are upheld.

**Getting into the specifics of southern US and law enforcement is absolutely something beyond the scope of this topic but it’s also something that crypto does not solve, KYC at entry and exit points is a treasure trove of identifying data and every single transaction with chain analysis makes it a “solution” in search of a real world problem.

meep · 2022-09-20T16:11:01.001Z

imo VPN services are sold on either FUD, or folks wanting to circumvent regional controls for streaming services. If you still accept cookies everywhere and use social media, all you’re doing is putting your online fingerprint through a VPN.

If you’re bothered about commercial tracking, duckduckgo search/browser are a good start.

sabana · 2022-09-20T16:21:37.013Z

Isn’t tracking a person a form of stalking??

thermionic · 2022-09-20T16:26:51.260Z

Under our current systems, identifying a person and stalking everything they do, correlating among disparate systems is not just legal but morally just so long as you are selling them product or reinforcing ideology

Suspect_Frequency · 2022-09-20T17:12:39.097Z

Matmcr · 2022-09-20T17:42:53.615Z

Great project from photographer Alec Soth, Broken Manual which explores the desire to disappear!

Magnum Photos

Broken Manual: Alec Soth in Conversation with Aaron Schuman • Magnum Photos...

The Magnum photographer talks about the personal impetus for making Broken Manual, the desire to be an artist, and the frustrations of photography

ML · 2022-09-20T17:58:58.942Z

holdmyeyes…

Funkyswitches · 2022-09-21T06:22:38.929Z

Privacy…smart phone in pocket…social media… information is power…am I the only one good at math?

It’s a fools errand; internet security; privacy. short of leaving society part and parcel, your a cow; consumer just like all of us.

raysage · 2022-09-21T07:08:42.590Z

Here’s Tom with the weather……

sabana · 2022-09-21T07:10:58.417Z

Who is ‘They’?

The invisibility is on which side?

natehorn · 2022-09-21T07:20:50.472Z

thermionic:

changing your IP is not materially changing what the warehouse has on you.

Especially these days where companies build entire profiles around users based on some impressive subtleties in how you move around online.

Anonymising data is famously difficult because of how it can be cross-correlated - which is also why you should be vary weary when governments and companies talk about sharing your data in such a way. It doesn’t take much to combine two pieces of anon data to ID someone.

darenager · 2022-09-21T10:22:49.370Z

I find it alarming how easily people submit to mechanisms which exert control over them, without so much as a second thought.

But these things are always faded in, a good example is cell phones - started off as a means of mobile communication, now they are much more than that, incremental features added, cameras, navigation, email, social media, payments, health, etc - all for convenience of the user. Oh, thats ok then.

onthebannedwagon · 2022-09-21T11:59:01.138Z

If I don’t have location services turned on how can I find Pokemon?

Suspect_Frequency · 2022-09-22T20:50:49.743Z

Big Brother is 100% certain about these things concerning me -

I like Japanese tentacle porn, Hot Pockets, have an obsession with Madonna’s greatest hits, and I can’t drive 55.

Aen · 2022-09-22T20:56:41.425Z

When I wanna get invisible online I just post new music.

HoldMyBeer · 2022-09-22T20:59:26.832Z

I just became indigital, visibly.

Kegeratorz · 2022-09-22T21:23:14.244Z

Analog wise, I was invisible all through high school!

MythMaker · 2022-09-22T21:49:27.912Z

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davestasiuk · 2022-09-22T22:00:21.998Z

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thermionic · 2022-09-23T17:18:07.649Z

A million surveillance devices everywhere and zero Bigfoots and little green men to be seen

Must be why the conspiracy theorists have just now discovered that all cryptids are multidimensional beings.