The Real Stephen

@25kV There is only really one "real" leader there. How many career politicians in this day and age would remain in country if it was a conflict zone

@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe @aral@mastodon.ar.al Because your photo is not Personally Identifiable Information, but your address is

@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe @aral@mastodon.ar.al no but people will put stuff on the internet, especially social media in plaintext and then complain that someone else does something with it that they don’t like. My arguement is exactly that, don’t put anything on the internet that you don’t want an enemy finding without encrypting it end-to-end

@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe @aral@mastodon.ar.al This is related due to this site https://searchtodon.social

@Westdragon@fosstodon.org @SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe @aral@mastodon.ar.al No I wouldn’t; but if I overheard conversations that were forced upon me by people that talk to loud, I would discuss any interesting tidbits with my partner when I got home.

@shine@gts.churanova.eu @aral@mastodon.ar.al It all depends on jurisdiction, there are other places than just the eu. The example I gave you for my location is correct, anyone can take a photo of you from a public place and you have no recourse to have the photo taken down or destroyed.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al a rebuttle for non tech bros: Opt-Out: You are standing on the street holding a sign up with your address on it. A newspaper photographer takes a photo of you. You contact the newspaper to ask to have the photo removed from publication Opt-In: You are standing on the street holding a sign up with your address on it, you invite a professional photographer to take some photos. #consent #tech #publicdomain #technology #OptOut #OptIn #photography

@aral@mastodon.ar.al More like you are having a street party and you put an invite onto the telegraph poles. Someone not from the street walks past and takes a photo and sends it to a mate.

@evannakita@mastodon.online @aral@mastodon.ar.al In jurisdiction I would have no recourse if the photo was taken from a public location.

@evannakita@mastodon.online @aral@mastodon.ar.al I personally have no problem ethically if someone was to use this find posts that I have made, if they were one of my followers. Your instance uses ActivityPub to send your post to all follower’s instances where it is then inserted into that instances database. If it was the opposite and the receiver had to connect to your instance to read the post then no it is not ethical. This type of searching should be intergrated into the instances where the level of trust is seen to be higher, which the author has stated is a hopeful end point.

@evannakita@mastodon.online @aral@mastodon.ar.al It doesn’t relate to the site that I am discussing as it only allows searching of news timeline. But yes I have no problem with joe random reading my posts, as my account is set as indexable

@joepie91@social.pixie.town @eevee@vulpine.club @SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe @aral@mastodon.ar.al This is not abuser apologia, this is the lesson that I learnt from being abused. So now I take steps to ensure my own safety online.

@joepie91@social.pixie.town @eevee@vulpine.club @SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe @aral@mastodon.ar.al Not really, as if you don’t want to have your profile indexed you would have already had you profile marked as noindex which is the out of the box default. So If you have permitted your profile to be indexed you have been offered additional methods to ensure that the site follows your wishes whilst allowing other sites to index it.

@sanctionedanya@toots.matapacos.dog @aral@mastodon.ar.al @sanctionedanya@toots.matapacos.dog @aral@mastodon.ar.al It is a cultural difference, and we can state our position on it until we are blue in the face and neither one of us is going to change our position. In Europe, privacy has a large amount of protection applied to it by law and socaially. In Australia PII is protected by law, but only if you are a govenment body, or a business entity making over $3 million. In a personal capacity there is no legal protections between individuals on a non-commercial engagement. So if you come over here, yes some jerk can follow you around in a public area with a shotgun mic and record your conversations without any recourse. Just like if I went to Europe i would have the legal protection for you to not have the same happening. As of the instance that I administer, I have a privacy policy that sets out the social contract that I have with the end users of my instance and the others who’s data is held there. However, I cannot offer my users any protections for messages that leave my sphere of control, and so they need to protect themselves from bad actors. My arguement is what you are missing, I am not stating that you have to protect yourself from me, I am not a jerk, you have to protect yourselves from the jerks of the world, and the community jumping up and down and stomping any bad actors that announce their presence instills a false narrative to the vulnerable that there is no-one slurping up their data on the sly.

@sanctionedanya@toots.matapacos.dog @aral@mastodon.ar.al let me bring it down to a soundbite You cannot control your data once it leaves your instance. If you believe that Beijing et al. are not already archiving activitypub from dissidents then fool-on-you. Having the vulnerable believe otherwise will cause them harm

@eevee@vulpine.club @SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe @aral@mastodon.ar.al I have enemies, I do not post anything on a web or communication service that is not end-to-end encrypted, where I have verified that they are whom they say they are.