It depends. Certain behaviour like creating multiple accounts in a short time span, or creating an account using Tor/VPN will trigger ProtonMail into making you verify with a phone number, a (non-ProtonMail) email address, or by paying them

a substantial portion of material harmful to minors

Mmm love me a nice law written to be as broad and fucking vague as possible

I would love to see a country go the other way and put IDs and biometric data in a special category where companies are either banned from collecting it or required to be held liable for damages if it’s stolen or misused. It’ll never happen though

You guys are both off in your thinking. Credit card companies didn’t give rewards to get your spending data, they did it to get you spending. If people don’t spend on their credit cards, people don’t get charged large amounts in interest.

They do it for debit cards too though. There’ll be other reasons as you said but getting your spending daa is 100% one of them

That’s always the cycle when it comes to giving up data for ‘perks’. First there’ll be benefits for complying, then those will go away, then it’ll turn into penalties for people who don’t comply. With the rise in technology in cars we’re already seeing some insurance companies offer lower rates for people in exchange for sharing their location/driving info. I think eventually it’ll shift to the point where ‘default’ insurance is made so expensive you’ll have no choice but to share everything you do with your insurance company

Cash makes you more aware of what you’re spending, is good for budgeting, and better for privacy. I’ll never stop using it

Your point on housing and government is a pure cop out. Plenty of people would be happy smaller basic houses if they could just afford them. But they’ve all been either knocked down, renovated to inflate the value, or still exist but are no longer affordable. And labor are, at best, complicit in many of the problems people have. They used a vaguely defined ‘skills shortage’ to justify one of the biggest migration rates into the country in its history while barely lifting a finger to increase housing supply. Yes, the libs would’ve been 10x worse, but that isn’t an excuse to just disregard criticism of Labor

A lot of ALPRs are well hidden here

I suppose it defeats the purpose but this in itself should be illegal. If these cameras exist they should be required to be clearly signposted. People should have the right to know exactly if/where/how they’re being recorded. Not just “maybe there’s a camera here, maybe we’re recording you, maybe we’re capturing and recording your face, who knows”

I stand corrected, but do you need a Google account at any point for activation etc.? I’ve had increasing difficulty creating a Google account at all without a phone number

Apple devices aren’t the best but theyre definitely not the worst. If the leaked Cellebrite documentation is to be believed then the newest devices running the latest iOS builds are well protected against hacking tools, second only to GrapheneOS. The iOS permissions system is relatively robust, lockdown mode is a good bit of extra protection too. And iirc full-disk encryption is enabled by default on iOS these days. Advanced Data Protection lets you E2E encrypt (most) cloud storage too. These are all good things

For the most part, you can set up an Apple Account without using genuine information (though the age verification thing might change this, but Google is implementing that too). For both iOS and GrapheneOS you need to either trust Apple or Google with your phone number to set up an account.

I’d be interested to hear people’s criticisms so long as they’re not just random claims with no elaboration or evidence

TikTok was a data harvesting surveillance tool from day one. It didn’t need to be ‘got’

Their Online Safety Act is stupid ever since it was enforced last year as that has done nothing except for making people bypass it entirely

It’s had worse outcomes than that. People who do decide to follow the law are having their IDs stolen and leaked and the UK gov (and others worldwide) don’t care. They designed and forced on us a law a ‘Safety’ Act that does nothing but actively compromise people’s safety. I realise I’m preaching to the crowd here but if this shit doesn’t destroy what’s left of people’s faith in government then I don’t know what will

It comes from many sources. Governments want age-verification for surveillance, advertisers want it to target people and ensure those people are real, social media companies want it for similar reasons, hackers want it so they have more IDs to steal, and (some) voters want it because they’re idiots

CCTV is the problem. Mass surveillance has to be stopped at the source. Just like the only way to guarantee a company won’t leak your ID or other personal info is to not let them have it in the first place, the only way to ensure a recording of you isn’t used for tracking or other malicious purposes is to not be recorded to begin with

How to actually do this I have no idea. But even if a company or government is legally bound to not use CCTV footage for nefarious purposes, there’s little actually stopping them

It’s already being implemented. iOS has introduced mandatory age verification in the latest beta releases that blocks adult websites and apps etc. unless you upload a credit card or license photo. If you have neither you’re out of luck

Doesn’t even need to be intentional when there are virtually no consequences for leaking that info

The advice I’ve always read is to avoid forks because they usually get security updates slower than the main browser. Is that true of waterfox?

I still remember the Mozilla Internet Application Suite before the browser part was spun off into Firefox and the email into Thunderbird. Some of their moves have been disappointing but I’ll still never use Chrome

Then this post is irrelevant to you. This is about a policy implemented into iOS. The only two options are credit (not debit) cards and drivers’ licenses. If you have neither then you can only use iOS in child safe mode.

I’m assuming the name, birthday and address on the ID have to line up with your existing apple account info or it won’t accept the card. In theory you could just change your details though